The money-eating parking machine up the street is in slot machine mode again. I park there regularly when I stop in to Silver Lion or Purrfect Pets or Tasty Korea (yes I had some yummy Korean food for lunch today). I used to ignore the… Read More
Glen Campbell RIP
Tuffy P signed us up for the 40 km MSBike Niagara ride on August 20. This is fine, except that neither of us had been on a bike all season. I dusted off the old bikes the other day. Looks like we have slow leaks… Read More
Jim Magill was born in Northern Ireland in 1902 and passed in Toronto in 1954. He was a radio fiddler on Toronto’s CFRB between 11946 and 1954. He also played for square dances in Toronto with the Northern Ramblers. Here’s the Calgary Breakdown. And finally,… Read More
I wish our first ripe tomato of the year was one of the beautiful large specimens growing on some of our 5 plants. In fact the great tomato harvest of 2017 has begun modestly. I’m not complaining. After years of being convinced we couldn’t grow… Read More
Here’s a new painting fresh from the studio. This one is about 48 cm tall (19″). It’s called Summer Days. I’m still working on new paintings for my October exhibition at Yumart, here in Toronto.
John Arcand on fiddle…
I’ve been listening to a lot of Canadian fiddle music, in case you haven’t guessed. Here’s a fantastic fiddler, Patti Kusturok, from her Patti Kusturok’s 365 days of Fiddle playing Calvin Vollrath and Trent Bruner’s Winner in Wintapeg.
I love these pictures Tuffy P shot in Buffalo of a miniature mossy world at Garden Walk Buffalo. These folks started their garden in 2004. They made all the objects and buildings themselves and they continue to add moss. The trees are cuttings from their… Read More
It’s Tuffy P. on this post July – the last weekend. We headed to Buffalo – early. Gardens, over 400 open free to the world at 10am. Two hot days. Welcomed inside homes newly purchased, welcomed in yards not even mapped. Stood beneath the oldest… Read More
27th Street 