Saturday Photo: Skating, Finally
All's right with the world, more or less. At least winter seems to have settled in, and the skating rinks are in operation. Jeanne apparently has had a great time…
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Saturday Photo: More Grey Weather…
When people have asked how we could have chosen Montreal over California when we made our great move decades ago, I always have said that I thought white, cold winters…
Saturday Photo: Sil, or Pickled Herring
As the holiday season ebbs, we have begun once again to eat sil, or Swedish pickled herring. Our consumption was interrupted by bouts of stomach flu or some such. Seems…
Saturday Photo: A Little Snow for the After Party
We barbecued on Christmas Eve and went to the park with the kids on Christmas Day, but on Sunday, December 27 it actually snowed. Nice to to see the ground…
Saturday Photo: Melting Snow, or No Snow at All
The photo was taken in March when the snow was melting, but this year it looks like there may be no snow at all.After a bit in October, we've had…
Saturday Photo: Red Flowers….
Just a bit of colour for a grey day.
Saturday Photo: Holly, No Ivy, No Snow
Don't know where this photo came from. Since holly doesn't survive in this climate, I doubt if I took it here. Nevertheless it currently is my computer wallpaper, and I…
Saturday Photo: Ice, Leaves, End of November, Climate Change
Walked up in the cemetery this morning where the ground was white, either from a heavy frost or the little snow that fell on Friday night. Hard to tell, but…
Saturday Photo: Fall Bikes…
Bixi is closing down for the year. Riding conditions continue to be good, but in Montreal the bike-share service doesn't run from about the middle of November until early April.…
Saturday Photo: I Love Paris
The savage attacks in Paris last night are echoing around the world. So it seems they were the result of twisted extremist thinking? Probably, and the great question is how…
Saturday Photo: The Excellent Adventure
This week I finished the revisions on Road through Time, and sent it off to the University of Regina Press which will publish it in Spring 2017. The book, about…
Last Call for Our Medicare System: Are You Listening, Justin?
An excellent piece in Thursday’s Toronto Star about what is happening in Quebec to our system of supposedly universal health care. This should be a wake-up call for the entire…
Saturday Photo: Halloween…
Spent Wednesday afternoon making pumpkins with Jeanne. It’s very nice to have grandchildren since you have license to do all the artsy-craftsy things that you are supposedly too old to…
Saturday Photo: Burning Bush, Montreal Style
Justin Trudeau started out his stint as PM by telling the world on behalf of 35 million Canadians: “We’re back!” Those were good words to hear after nearly ten years…
They Ran from the Left, Will They Govern from the Right?
Canadians’ basic decency won yesterday, with the decisive defeat of Stephen Harper’s politics of fear and hate. Thank goodness! Now, however, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals will have to hold to their…
Saturday Photo: Even the Leaves Votes Red, Orange or Green
The election is on Monday, and it looks from here like a minority Liberal (red) government. The NDP (orange) stands to lose much of what it gained in the Orange…
Saturday Photo: The Path to Thanksgiving and a New Government
The leaves are beginning to turn colour here, and the sky is the brilliant blue that always makes me think of my mother quoting Helen Hunt Jackson’s poem about “October’s…
Saturday Photo: Roman Road and Road through Time
Here’s a photo of the Roman road at Conimbriga in central Portugal. It’s only one of the many roads I’m thinking about now, as I go back to the preliminary…
Up Next: Road through Time
Pleased to say that I’ve just signed a contract with the University of Regina Press to publish my next non-fiction book Road through Time, probably in Spring 2017. It’s about…
Saturday Photo: Dancing Grass
Just because it’s another nice weekend…