My nieces Martha and Ivy Farquhar-McDonnell, along with their mother Kathleen McDonnell released their first CD this week: Yet will I be merry - Carols and Songs of the Season. Recorded on Toronto Island and produced by Andy Maize (of Skydiggers) it is a beautiful record of some wonderful singing.
You can purchase it in Toronto at Musideum.
Listen to some tunes on myspace here.
Fiddler extraordinaire Dawson Girdwood practicing before our big gig at Rebecca Cohn Auditorium.
Halifax, early 80s
There's something visually rich and weighty with a whiff of snoot about bound classics.
Bear River Heritage Museum, Nova Scotia, August 2006
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." - Sir Winston Churchill
Halifax, August 2007
Cheryl McGowan, creator of Beelightful - handcrafted pure beeswax candles - available at the Guelph Farmers Market.
Farmers Market, Guelph, November 2008
Check out the 15th Annual Winter Lights and Music happening this Saturday in downtown Guelph. Free skate & music. Community begins at home and never ends.
Downtown Guelph, November 2005
Annie Van Alten of Annie's Apitherapy.
"In ancient times, beehive products were used for therapeutic healing and disease prevention. Today, that wisdom harmonized with science is known as Apitherapy. Apitherapy and beehives are an immediate answer to the need for vitamins, proteins, antibiotics, oral rehydratants, anesthetics, antiseptics, cicatrizers, topical healers for wounds and burns, tissue preservatives, immunostimulants, and other healing resources."
Guelph, November 2008
Fraser and Debolt at a theatre in Toronto, 1973. Current websites are: Daisy Debolt and Allan Fraser.
Toronto, 1973
"I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness and a better sense of humor..." recent article by Brian Eno on the benefits of group singing - more here.
Breast of Canada fundraising choir, GYMC, September 2005
I'm always somewhat surprised to find this amount of public urban space without words, ads, signs, signals, logos, etc.
Knight Lumber, Guelph, November 2008
Aimee, owner/operator of Sacred Circle Herbs.
"Handmade with organic and wildcrafted herbs, therapeutic grade essential oils and only the highest quality nut, seed and vegetable oils and butters, Sacred Circle Herbs luxury bath products are beautiful to look at and to use."
Guelph, November 2008
This morning as I stepped out on the front porch I smelled what I thought was the neighbours' wood stoves then noticed it seemed rather foggy then realized a siren was approaching.
I followed the smoke to a house around the corner and watched as it burnt up frighteningly quickly.
As far we know no one was injured.
Time to check those smoke alarms.
Guelph, November 2008
My father - Colin Gordon Sutherland and his mother Ethel Mae Atkinson - in May 1943.
A portion of a letter he sent home from RCAF Overseas in July 1944.
"Everything will certainly be changed a lot when I get back - if I get back. and all that."
Grey County, May 1943
remembrance day
this is remembrance day
the rain's falling down
wearing november grey
we uncover lost ground
the wind it is getting cold
there's a knife in the heir
and when it all turns to snow
a new world's lying there
they say the older that you get
the better you used to be
nothing improves the past like time
i'm looking forward to a memory
i just get better
i hear the sound of no hands clappin'
i remember things
before they even happen
it's so glorious oh, so glorious
after remembrance day
the future is noo
put your hands in the cold cold clay
and make something true
they say ...
i remember things
before they even happen
it's so glorious oh, so glorious
they say...
the snow is a wedding dress
mother earth father sun
time will take it off again
and make a new one
they say the older that you get
the better you used to be
nothing improves the past like time
i'm looking forward to a memory
my eyes just keep improving
i can see over life's wall
even though it's true
i can't get focused straight at all
it's so glorious oh, so glorious
near Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, March 2008
funny how those farmers market donuts dilate your pupils.
Guelph, November 2008
Anwen demonstrates hula hooping from toes to tips with her homemade hula hoops.
Guelph, November 2008
