After 20 months our world widened again. Grateful to return to Kauai, reuniting with good friends, it was the proverbial feast for the eyes and soul. So accustomed to the comforting greys and forest greens of home, the scenery and colours of Hawaii were startlingly beautiful.  Prior to the days of digital photography where it’s too…

It’s pet portrait time of year. There’s a lot of interest in the colourful variety. Here’s the famous Petey, who shares an Instagram account with doggy sibling, Donny. Petey loves his blankie.  A colourful scene, asking to be painted, is the Canadian/US border at Blaine.   That was taken last week prior to the nonstop…

At this never ending pandemic? At the state of the world, be it political or environmental? Nope, something for more simple and pleasurable. As the song goes: I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.    We recently made the 35th variety of mostly sugar free ice cream, some lactose free, in our…

Recently, Opus Art hosted a challenge, “Your Creative Life,” where artists were invited  to submit a work in progress with an explanation of their approach. It was so nice to receive a message today that my sunflower painting was one of the projects selected. This is a portion of it in progress: Seeing my name…

  Judging from the pictures can you guess where we were? Hint: we got brave and took our first flight since the pandemic started.    There were badlands, cactus, sage brush and hoodoos, enough to make you believe we were thousands of kilometres south, when in fact we were a bit northeast of Calgary, in…

Now what was I going to write about? Who's knows? It was one of those questions about where you fall on a specific topic. Those kinds of things half of those questioned answer one way and half the other, but it's slipped my mind. It must have something to do with how I've been spending…

It took me three months to realize I had been paying for Apple TV, something I had never used. Ninety days came free with one of our phones and Apple "generously" extended the deadline during the pandemic.  Such an oxymoron when it comes to its customers – Apple and generous. Apparently I failed to extend…

This week in 2004 this blog was founded. 1337 posts later it still exists! Scrolling back, looking at some of the original photos and posts I found this one from my 50th birthday party with Bryant at age 14. Read the post and make sure you read his comment below it.  We are fortunate to be…

You probably detect a hint of facetiousness. This one truly baffles me.  Because this year's taxes included the sale of our recreational property, we owed more in taxes than we ever have. We prepared ourselves, filing and paying in a timely manner, but the unusual amount triggered the dreaded review of our taxes with a…

That rhyming title reminds me of seventh grade, when the response would be "You're a poet and didn't know it 'cause your feet are two long fellows." Middle school humour.  This delight is one of my favourites – bird song. A little house finch serenaded me on our deck throughout the first half of the…