July 2014

hiking, travel

Three Days, Three Months or Three Years…….

We are planning to go away for a few days to a cottage near Algonquin Park. My husband is still using up holiday time and this trip will use up four days. I never thought that I would find taking holidays a chore, however, having one a month for the last four months or so […]

Food, reality

An Evening of Sliders Part 2

My eldest, who was away the evening we did Sliders Part 1, decided that he would like to try making some. He hadn’t cooked much at home, while he was working in catering and complained regularly that he didn’t have time for his Art. Now that he is supposed to be working at Art full-time,

Food

An Evening of Sliders Part 1

My husband has always wanted to try the salmon burgers from De La Mer, the fish shop on Bayview. He said to the kids one night, “how about salmon burgers for dinner on Saturday?” Silence, some nose twitching, an indiscernible moan or two. I then suggested that we buy one burger and split it four

Art

Art and the 3D Printer…..

I’ve been thinking a lot about Art this week. – that’s the medium as opposed to the man 🙂 My son is working on a few commissions and a series for a gallery showing, as well as putting some of his pieces up online. I often wonder how that “works” – putting your art up

reality

TV – Love It or Leave It

Every year my husband’s company takes all its employees away for three days and two nights to a series of workshops punctuated by very good meals and the amenities of an upscale hotel in the country. I have to make the best of being left at home. It reminds me a little of the movie

hiking, Toronto

The Good Side of Rain

It’s raining again today and we are halfway through July so the farmer in me says, it’s been a wet July or a wet summer so far. I think that we have watered the garden once this year, sometime in June. Sigh! Actually, when it rained Sunday morning, I am sure a lot of people

photography

On Doing Ordinary Well

The photography group that I am in and out of these days is doing an exercise on the ordinary. Ordinary is what happens daily. It’s the extraordinary that takes work. However, photographers do ordinary very well, and some make it extraordinary, without a lot of effort. I have written before about photographers who have literally

Art, gardening

Life in the Slow Lane…..

I’m sitting here just a little antsy to be off doing something different, something exciting perhaps, certainly something better than face booking my morning away. Yes I have seen some amazing “things” on-line – gorgeous trees houses, inventive coffee cups, creative videos of just about everything….etc…etc…. I love looking at what others have done, but

reality

Four Feet of Separation…….

About eighteen months ago, I moved my office across the hall. The hall is three, maybe four feet wide. So I guess you could say that I moved about four feet away. I vacated one room and opened up another. No big deal! Life went on. Letters arrived, parcels arrived and the postman picked up

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