Julia McKay - Photojournalist: NEW 365

Happy 2017!!!!!!

Things to look forward to this month:
New Years Baby and levee at city hall
Back to girl guides and new challenges
Meeting a 100-year-old girl guide leader
Winter camping, skating and more outdoor photo fun
Getting health and eating better
Watching Melrose get bigger and hopefully get along with Bella
-please forgive all the cat photos to come

January 01, 2017 - Toasting to the start of 2017

*EXTRA* January 01, 2017 - Kerri and Simon Marx welcome their first child, son Henry, into the world just before 4 a.m. on New Years Day at Kingston General Hospital, seen here in Kingston, Ont. on Sunday

*EXTRA* January 01, 2017 - The community was invited to celebrate the start of 2017 at the New Year's Levee in Memorial Hall, City Hall with Kingston and the Islands MP Mark Gerretsen, MPP Sophie Kiwala and City of Kingston Mayor Bryan Paterson

*EXTRA* January 01, 2017 - The community was invited to celebrate the start of 2017 at the New Year's Levee in Memorial Hall, City Hall with Mayor Bryan Paterson, members of city council and a number of past and current elected officials in Kingston

January 02, 2017 - One of the best peppermint treats I've had in a LONG time (or since last year)

January 03, 2017 - Rain on an aqual-pelled window pane

January 04, 2017 - on the way to the vet as she's been acting out of character. Luckily it was only a slight infection

*EXTRA* January 04, 2017 - She's home now and appears to be feeling much better

January 05, 2017 - Now for the boys turn, wearing the cone of shame after getting fixed

*EXTRA* January 05, 2017 - turns out it was a too small, plus he didn't seem to notice his stitches anyway

*EXTRA* January 05, 2017 - the cone then became a playtoy

January 06, 2017 - Time to clean out the closet and start fresh

January 07, 2017 - Making homemade bath bombs with mom

*EXTRA* January 07, 2017 - He's always got his eye on her, just in case she finally decides that she wants to play with him

*EXTRA* January 07, 2017 - The boy likes to dig in under the covers

January 08, 2017 - I'm feeling a bit like our inukshuk, knocked over and out by winter. I did learn it off and set it back upright.

*EXTRA* January 08, 2017 - While cleaning I found an old pocket watch I purchased during a high school trip to London, England.

January 09, 2017 - Kinda stressful when you're locked out of an appointment

January 10, 2017 - Alex Deboer, left, and Riley Hickey, students from Joyceville Public School, take advantage of a Tuesday snow day to go sledding down the snow covered hill off McMahon Avenue

*EXTRA* January 10, 2017 - Alex Deboer, back, and Riley Hickey, students from Joyceville Public School, take advantage of a Tuesday snow day to go sledding down the snow covered hill off McMahon Avenue

January 10, 2017 - Melrose seems to like the new cat tower

January 11, 2017 - Out with the old [toothbrush] and in with the new

January 12, 2017 - Melrose and his wispy whiskers

January 13, 2017 - my growing fidget collection

January 14, 2017 - Honouring one of our own

January 15, 2017 - testing out a new breakfast place with mom

January 16, 2017 - getting caught up on my photo a day app

January 17, 2017 - Sophie Kiwala, MPP for Kingston and the Islands, announces the Ontario government's restructuring of the student assistance funding program before students and staff at Bayridge Secondary School. Now students from families that earn less than $50,000 will receive free tuition to college or university. As well as graduates will leave with less Ontario debt.

January 18, 2017 - my passes have arrived

January 19, 2017 - one of my fav meals

January 20, 2017 - Kingston Frontenacs Nathan Dunkley tries to get the puck past Oshawa Generals goaltender Jeremy Brodeur with Generals William Ennis and Alex Di Carlo right behind him during the first period of Ontario Hockey League action at the Rogers K-Rock Centre

January 21, 2017 - Shine a Light on Mental Health rally

*EXTRA* January 21, 2017 - it's raining in January

January 22, 2017 - Breakfast out with family

January 23, 2017 - Waiting for the freezing to kick in

January 24, 2017 - For the third Tuesday in a row the weather caused bus cancellations across the region. This Tuesday it was iced over with freezing rain, which then turned into wet slushy snow by the afternoon in Kingston

*EXTRA* January 24, 2017 - I love when mom's in a baking mood

*EXTRA* January 24, 2017 - rain + branches + street light = cool circular effect

January 25, 2017 - Mayor Bryan Paterson cuts the ribbon at the ceremonial grand opening of the new Ewyn Weight Loss Studios, owned by Cassie Easton, in red, with two of her staff Niki McEwen and Jocelyn Sutton, located in the Blackburn Mews

*EXRA* January 25, 2017 - Saying goodbye to three good friends

January 26, 2017 - Cameron Rowe, director of the Running and Reading program at Molly Brant Elementary School, is looking for more adult volunteers to help as coaches to create a one to one ratio with the active students,

*EXTRA* January 26, 2017 - Close to 50 Grade 2 to 5 students participate in the weekly Running and Reading program at Molly Brant Elementary School. Organizers are looking for more adult volunteers to help as coaches to create a one to one ratio with the active students.