Bins of these dried mushrooms are available for sale at this store on Dundas. The mushrooms are dried whole. There is no English identifier and I’m not sure what these are.
All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
The Chagall Exhibition
I enjoyed this exhibition, although I thought it was uneven. Most of the works I liked best were by Chagall’s contemporaries rather than by Chagall himself. For instance, there was a group of black and white lithographs by Natalia Goncharova that I thought were a… Read More
Dundas St.
I enjoyed this storefront today on Dundas St., not far west of the Art Gallery of Ontario
Chagall today
Off to the Marc Chagall exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario today. The show closes on the 15th, so I’m meeting up with my old friend Tim today to catch the show and catch up. Tim and I know one another going back to… Read More
Scottish à Catinaux
I’ve been posting quite a bit of music lately. I hope you’re enjoying it as much as I am. Here’s a tune I’m familiar with. I play a version of it on my triple row accordion. This is very nicely played by Serge Carrier on… Read More
for those days when the button accordion is just too mainstream…
…there’s the Hurdy Gurdy. When I grow up or win a medium sized lottery, I’d love to get my hands on one of these instruments.
A Minor Repair
I was experiencing what sounded like a horrible problem with my Guerrini triple row diatonic button accordion. Something was stuck, causing air to pass through a reed even though no buttons were depressed. That meant the box was unplayable in its current condition. Before taking… Read More
Le Reel de la Contradiction
Wow, this is Denis Pépin! Beautiful.
Le reel du cultivateur
Let’s start 2012 off right with a nice button accordion reel. Clément a l’accordéon et Réginald a la guitare Sorry but I don’t know anything about these guys. They have a number of videos up on YouTube and they’re all very enjoyable.
25,000
According to the good folks at WordPress, this blog was viewed about 25,000 times last year. Of course, numbers can be deceiving. At some point early in the year, for instance, I made a post about a movie – the famous one about the submarine.… Read More