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
Here’s another Mac Beattie tune, the Lake Dore Waltz. Lake Dore is north of Eganville in the Ottawa Valley in Ontario. Many of Mac Beattie’s tunes were about places and people in the Ottawa Valley.
Here’s Mac Beattie and the Ottawa Valley Melodiers… I would have loved to have seen this band live!
Friends brought us a big basket of blueberries last evening, and that means lots of baking as well as a wealth of blueberries for the freezer. Today I made whole-grain blueberry scones. I had never made any kind of scones before, but I followed the… Read More
Tuffy P has signed us up to do the MS Bike ride in the Niagara area supporting the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada on August 20. This is a 40 km ride. We’ve kicked in $500 on my page to get the ball rolling. If… Read More
We gobbled up the entire first season of the new show on Netflix called Ozark over the past few days. It’s about a financial planner in Chicago suddenly packs up his family and moves to the Ozarks. He’s been laundering money for a Mexican drug… Read More
Music for a Saturday morning. Here’s Chubby Parker and his Old Time Banjo… Chubby Parker was born in 1876 and passed in 1940. He had an interesting life. He had a degree in electrical engineering, worked for the circus, and along the way became a… Read More
Riding the range all these years has taken a lot out of old Cowboy Tom. These days he likes to take a few minutes to stop and smell the flowers. But wait – Tom’s trusty steed Jigsaw can sense a grizzly bear off in the… Read More
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
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
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