I took the dogs out for a walk in the woods this morning, and was fortunate to find around 30 chanterelles. They’re a little hard to see right now. There is a lot of leaf litter on the forest floor and the chanterelles are just… Read More
While we were at Spindletree, we wandered off into some forest at the back of the property. The first thing we noticed were the deer flies and mosquitoes, which were unrelentings. The second thing we noticed was all the mushrooms in this little piece of… Read More
I also shot a short video in one of the areas I most enjoyed.
Yesterday we visited Spindletree Gardens near Tamworth Ontario. It’s a little further afield than we would normally go for a daytrip, but it was a bus tour so we didn’t have to drive and that took a bit of the edge off the distance. Spindletree… Read More
Old Joe Clark is a well-known old time tune from Kentucky. It is played in mixolydian mode in which the 7th note in the scale is lowered a half-tone, giving it what Aubrey Atwater refers to in the video below as that “Old Joe Clark-y”… Read More
Cyclist chased by wolf on Alaska Highway. I once encountered a wolf many years ago while I was cross country skiing. I saw prints in the snow first. It was early morning and I was the only person out on the trail. I thought the… Read More
Batten down the hatches UPDATE: False alarm. The wind came up, the sky darkened, the radio warned…..and nada.
I shot a short video from my front door during the storm yesterday evening. This is in the SW corner of Toronto in the neighbourhood known as Long Branch.
We had quite a storm last night. Lots of flooding in the city. Power was out for hours. We had a month and a half’s worth of rain in a couple hours. Fortunately, the rain stayed outside!
27th Street 