We trundled off to the town of Milton for the afternoon today for the Secret Gardens of Milton garden tour. This tour is organized by the Milton & District Horticultural Society and features 8 gardens. For those not from these parts, Milton is a town… Read More
This monarch was hanging out in the garden today, enjoying the butterfly weed.
I posted a photo of this painting back in December, but I just added it to my “Paintings” page, with an improved photo, so I thought I’d feature it again here. This painting goes back to the early 90s. It’s acrylic on canvas and I… Read More
Between October 2015 and March 2017, I wrote a series of very short stories I called the Lazy Allen Stories. I posted them them to a blog site and made them available for anyone who wanted to read them, a small crowd as it turned… Read More
I signed up for more nature walks with Miles Hearn – this time a series of 4 July walks, the first one being in that Toronto treasure, High Park. Although spring is the best time for birds, we were fortunate to see, or in some… Read More
Those readers who have been to our garden (or who tune in here regularly) know we have some unusual structures out back, which we call Imagination Stations. I spent much of this morning out there with a block of paper and a big box of… Read More
This small painting (about the size of a large dinner plate) was intended for my last solo show but was not exhibited. It’s acrylic on masonite and it floats off the wall a little bit. I’ll let this one speak for itself.
Pontiac Imagine for a moment pop music without cars. Oldsmobile Nash Rambler Hot Rod Lincoln Coupe de Ville Woody
I can’t remember ever liking kale. I must have had a bad experience with it when I was a kid. My mom could cook many things tremendously well, wonderfully, beautifully well, but with some vegetables, she would cook them until she was sure they were… Read More
Stormchaser’s Dream is one of the group of encaustics I exhibited at my former gallery Yumart, back in 2016. Like the others, I started with a lozenge-shaped chunk of wood which I created from a plank using a jigsaw and a mini-grinder. I applied the… Read More
27th Street 