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 […]
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
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
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
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
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
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
After our last day biking Le Petit Train du Nord, we decided to stay the night in Ottawa, rather than drive the five hours or so back to TO all in one go. We had not booked a hotel in the capital, because we weren’t sure what our plans would be. Who stays in Ottawa
The final leg of the bike journey on Le Petit Train du Nord was 42kms from Val David to St. Jerome and it was for the most part all downhill. We did coast past cyclists who were going the other way – uphill. They were struggling. Now I know why the tour bus takes you
I gather that you get to have a “des Monts” after your name, in the Laurentians, if you are a town that is really at the top of a mountain. Well, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts certainly is and anyone who has cycled to it along Le Petit Train du Nord painfully knows how really high it is!! We’ve
