Art in Progress
Artist at work: an Ancient Egyptian style decorative collar by M (click to enlarge). And it’s finished! Filed under: Beautiful Tagged: young artists
Lilian Nattel
Joyce Carol Oates on 1st Draft
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor. Filed under: Fun, Literary Tagged: Writing Life
Railroad Ramble
It’s been a while since I’ve had one of these. It was beautiful up there in the sun with new leaves all around. I saw so much in that peaceful…
Pothole Problem Solved
click to enlarge This pothole has been around on Palmerston Square for a while. Recently someone anonymously filled it in with earth and planted flowers. Neighbourliness and creativity abound. Filed…
Spring?
Filed under: Interesting Tagged: odd weather
Wordless Wednesday
Spring (click to enlarge) Filed under: Beautiful Tagged: spring buds
Words on Wednesday
Passover is here, which means eating matzah, also chocolate and more eggs than usual. This year during the seder one line struck me from our (radically abridged) reading of the…
Wordless Wednesday
Filed under: Beautiful Tagged: urban nature
What I Learned from Figure Skating
The figure skaters at the World Championship competition, held this past week in London, Ontario, are the top skaters in the world. And they fall. They fall on their bums…
Two Views of a Telephone Post
Shape and colour and reflected light. You have to imagine the smell of muddy grass, the sound of the camera clicking, which is itself an artifact, an imitation of shutter…
Starling
(click to enlarge) This is a starling, not one of the nobility like eagle and hawk, but a common bird. I see them around here all the time. They’re extroverts,…
Alice Munro’s Brilliance
I am reading Alice Munro because she is brilliant. In the mid 1990s, I studied her stories for “weather,” ie the external details that make a story come alive. In…
Looking Deeper
I was walking and saw a slight indentation in the sidewalk. It was the shape of an inverted V. I stood over it with my camera and took a series…
Wheat Sheaf Tavern
wheat sheaf tavern, est 1849 King St W, Toronto (click to enlarge) Inside the upper window is a wide bottomed jar with yellow paint or yellow peppers, also a blue-green…
Literature Trumps Erotica
The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler is #8 in the top 100 books on amazon.ca, surpassing all three Shades of Grey. I’ve loved The Imposter Bride since it came out…
An Everday Story of Cats
(Click photos to enlarge) Filed under: Fun Tagged: cats in motion, urban photography
In Memory of Esther Levin
There are words that people use at a time like this: “unexpected passing,” “beloved mother, sister, daughter, friend,” “after a short illness.” These words can be said electronically, but the…
New Delhi
This morning my younger daughter asked me if I was cross. I said no, then yes, and explained why. She told me to blog about it. This is what I…
Leaves in January
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where…