Here’s a small butterfly Tuffy P made as a gift… Some of our butterfly mosaics (for instance The Brain Project) depict actual butterfly species. Others like this one are improvisational and imaginary. We do custom mosaics for gardens or interiors. We’ll even make mosaics using… Read More
Two recordings which were released in 2017 have been getting a lot of play at home and in the car lately: Going Home by April Verch and Joe Newberry and Carp Fishing in Missouri by Cathy Barton and Dave Para. April Verch is a super-fine… Read More
The Vegetarian is a highly unusual, psychologically complex and thoughtful novel which explores themes around identity, family, mental illness and questions about how we choose to live in this world. It’s set in Korea and written in Korean and translated to English. This book… Read More
The huge walnut tree at 39 Twenty Seventh Street was destroyed today. The owner of the property is planning a re-build and apparently the Committee of Adjustment granted them the permit to take down this tree as well as two other walnuts in the back… Read More
I trundled down to City Hall this morning to see the Brain Project brains at Nathan Phillips Square. Ours is the one with the monarch butterfly mosaics. Visit our page on the Brain Project site.
I could listen to Jimmy Driftwood all day…
Sheila and I are participating in The Brain Project this year, in support of Baycrest Health Sciences. Our brain is sponsored by Cineplex. As The Brain Project returns for its second year, one hundred artists from around the world will transform blank brain sculptures into… Read More
Tuffy P suggested I make a Saskatoon lemon nut loaf. I tried it today. This is like a cranberry lemon nut loaf except with Saskatoons instead of cranberries. it is seriously good. And the great news is that I have enough berries ripening on the… Read More
We have a Saskatoon Berry (Serviceberry) bush out in the front garden, and this year it’s loaded with fruit. I did a first picking after supper today, and in a couple days most of the rest of them should be ripe. Now to decide what… Read More
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