Saturday Photo: The Importance of Keeping the Hard Copy…
The fellow in the middle is my maternal grandfather, J.F. McDonald–or at least that’s the name he used for the last 50 years of his life. It was taken when…
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Saturday Photo: Hockey? Golf? Sports in 17th Century Holland from the AGO
One of the pleasures of our trip to Toronto recently was a day spent in the Art Gallery of Ontario. The featured exhibition, Impressionism in the Age of Industry, is…
Saturday Toronto: Moose in Toronto
One of the regrets of my life is that I never was able to get a New Hampshire bumper sticker for my mother’s wheel chair: “I brake for moose.” We…
Saturday Photo: The Cover…
Not much to write this week, because I’m busy checking the edits on my new book. Here’s the cover (or its latest iteration.) More later….
Saturday Photo: Craftsbury Common and Frenemies
Jessamyn West, the Vermont librarian, took this lovely photo of Craftsbury Common, in mid-state Vermont. I love it for its peaceful beauty and the way it captures a vision of…
Saturday Photo: March Sunbath….
The sun is rising earlier, setting later, and passing higher in the sky. All that points to the end of winter, although the temperatures here remain now higher than a…
Saturday Photo: Ruts, rats!
This is what our lane looked like this morning. After several snowfalls and freeze and thaw cycles, it had been reduced to two tracks of ruts about four inches thick.…
Saturday Photo: Elections, Snow and Julia Sánchez
Snow days this week, ice day today (after a period of rain yesterday) but every day is campaign day this week and next. Here is Julia Sánchez, the NPD candidate…
Saturday Photo: Natural Valentine
A couple of years ago I found these lovely leaves cascading down the side of a garage. Nice to see that Nature loves a Valentine too. So please tell those…
Saturday Photo: Tommy Douglas in 1944
This photo was taken three years before Saskatchewan began its provincial hospitalization plan that started Canada on its road toward universal, single-payer health insurance. Tommy Douglas– son of a foundry…
Saturday Photo: The Dude Who Divided the World..
The painting is of Pope Alexander VI (born Rodrigo de Borja, into the infamous/famous Borgia family) adoring the Christ Child, while Mary looks on. Pietro Facettio was the artist, who…
Saturday Photo: The Difference between Weather and Climate…
At the moment it’s minus 23 Celsius, and it’s supposed to start snowing soon. Big winter storm coming, danger of frost bite according to Environment Canada. Typical January weather in…
Saturday Photo: Chartres and Other Beautiful Things
Every time we’ve gone to France Lee has taken the RER from Paris to Chartres, a pleasant 45 minute train trip to the little city on the bluff where one…
Saturday Photo: Fort George, Madras, and Back to Work
The holiday is almost over: for more than a week I’ve ended each day thinking it was Sunday, but it hasn’t been, of course. Not I haven’t been able to…
Saturday Photo: The Hinge of the Year Has Turned…
Sunrise over Parc Outremont. Not today, because I haven’t been out yet, but I’m sure it would have looked a lot like this because there is no snow around here.…
Saturday Photo: Sil, Lutfisk and Holiday Good Wishes in Troubled Times
First of all, here’s the link to our holiday season blog, which has become something of a tradition. Read it and know we’re all hoping for the best as we…
Saturday Photo: Waiting…
Is it going to snow? Or will the snow all melt? There are many more important questions out there, but these two are high on my mind right now, as…
Saturday Photo: Hanging in There…Oak Leaves and Snow
Today’s lesson is about persistence. It has always been my long suite. The fact that my family is very long-lived helps because I’ve been pretty sure since I became aware…
Saturday Photo: Finally a Jade Plant Flower!!!
For several years I’ve been trying to get my large and beautiful jade plant (kindly given me by Bettina Bergo when she went on sabbatical) to bloom. My mother, who…
Saturday Photo: Getting from There to Here and Vice Versa
Snow on the ground, for the moment at least. Snow clearance hasn’t been terrific perhaps because the powers that be know rain is forecast for this weekend. But between now…