Gift at the Lake
On a beautiful day recently, A and I walked for 4 hours. At Sunnyside Beach, where in another time people danced to the music of big bands in the Palais…
Lilian Nattel
Review: Little Failure
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a memoir about life as an immigrant child from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s,…
Review: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson My rating: 5 of 5 stars A book people seem to love or hate. I did…
Sunrise on New Moon
(click to enlarge) Part of my project for 2014 is to pay attention to the day. Every morning I jot down in a notebook the time of sunrise and sunset,…
Real Winter
kitchen window (click to enlarge) I thought that climate change would end winter. Instead it ricochets from one season to another. Everything at hyper-speed, plants, animals, viruses on the move.…
Cardinals Know the Day
I heard cardinals singing this morning. They know the days are getting longer. – A One minute longer than yesterday. Filed under: Uplifting Tagged: city birds
Sun on Ice
It’s very cold but I’m grateful for the sun. (click to enlarge) Sending warm thoughts to everyone still waiting for power and to all those working so hard to restore…
Toronto Ice Storm: Birch Tree
Mercifully we have power. So I can appreciate the beauty of this: (click to enlarge) That’s the birch tree leaning over our back balcony. Across the street the limb of…
Cat’s Eyes or Owl’s
Winter night It was pitch black to my human eyes, but this is the way an owl sees or a cat, I thought. The camera was on a tripod, the…
The Day Calls
Car Rainbow (click to enlarge) The day calls to you and you call back. Filed under: Uplifting Tagged: urban photography
Archie and Thanks for the Books
I use Grammarly for proofreading because I want Veronica to love me. – Archie We’ve been having an Archie issue in this house. Archie and his pals (my fave is…
Richness
I was trying on a jacket at The Bay. It cost twice as much as I’d normally spend, but there was a 50% off sale. H said, “You look like…
Camera Parable
Recently, I bought a new lens. It was a cloudy day with intermittent rain, but I couldn’t wait for better conditions. So as soon as I left the shop, I…
Happy Dance for Alice Munro’s Nobel
Alice Munro wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to take the award since its launch in 1901. Munro, 82, only the 13th woman given…
Creatures in Lake Ontario
Today I rambled along the boardwalk of Toronto Island and this is what I saw: Cormorant The cormorant stood drying her wings for as long as I was taking photos.…
Postcard Story
After finishing Web of Angels, I did some writing exercises to get used to facing the blank page again so I could start something new. Recently, I re-read what I…
Elephant
Toronto Zoo Click to enlarge and see her beautiful eyes as she looked at me on my birthday. The elephants are being prepared for transfer to an elephant sanctuary. It…
Grammarly vs Word
I used Grammarly to grammar check this post because summer is nearly at an end and I’d rather spend my time outside than proofreading…especially after putting Grammarly through all its…
Mystery Station: for train lovers
Filed under: Fun Tagged: Bessarion, TTC charms