Today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn was at Ashbridges Bay. This is a very popular summer spot, with a really nice beach and many beach vollyball courts. There weren’t so many people around today. Temperature hovered around the freezing point this morning but in exposed… Read More
Riley Baugus and Kurt Sutphin
Yesterday was delivery day for Basketeers. Basketeers is a volunteer organization providing some of the simple necessities and niceties of life, bundled in a basket and gifted to women transitioning out of a shelter to the next chapter in their lives. Tuffy P has been… Read More
Jack Antler played for the first time in front of an audience at our local open mic at Fair Grounds Coffee tonight. Here’s a video of one of the tunes we played, Cold Frosty Morning. It was an appropriate tune, given the cold temperatures we’ve… Read More
Last month when I played some tunes at the Fair Grounds Open Mic here in Long Branch I met a fellow named Ted Myerscough. Ted responded to my clawhammer playing and told me he played some guitar, so I suggested we get together and jam… Read More
The Earl White Stringband on the Floyd Radio Show
I heard this woodpecker way before I found him up in our apple tree banging away. My camera was inside but I had my phone with me. Here it is….
I love the fall gardens. Sure, in high summer the gardens are spectacular, featuring rushes of high-tone colour, but the mature garden has plenty going for it too. Flowers take on new and often mysterious shapes. The earthy fall colours are showy in their… Read More
More Canadian fiddle music. I came across this gem tonight on YouTube. It’s Gordon Stobbe with Calvin Vollrath performing the Stompin’ Tom song Gumboot Cloggeroo. For those viewers who aren’t from around Canada and maybe don’t know Stompin’ Tom Conners from a hole in the… Read More
27th Street 