prayer flags

Let's hope Joan Rentoul's prayer flags augur well - for beautiful changes for all of us in the new year.

Guelph, December 2008

yorkshire street door

Guelph, December 2008

alec's sock people

Some serious sock folk by Alec.

Guelph, December 2008

christmas mittens

Ani's lovemade gift.

Guelph, December 2008

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Eramosa River, Guelph Radial Trail, December 2008

horse and fairy

What more could a girl ask for than a horse and a powerful flying female fairy!

Guelph, Xmas 2008

homemade wrapping paper

made by grandogger#1
Guelph, December 2008

snow angel

Guelph, December 2008

what gender is your website?

What gender is your website? Go to www.genderanalyzer.com and plug in the URL of a website of your choice - it will analyze it and report back to you whether the site was created by a man or woman. Evidently this site had a 57% chance of being created by a woman.

Riverside Park, Guelph, December 2008

light train

Riverside Park, Guelph, December 2008

sparkles in the park

Riverside Park is decorated with thousands of coloured lights until the end of the month for Sparkles in the Park. The carousel is turning too!

Guelph, December 2008

orange snow

Snow from yesterday's storm glows orange beneath the sodium street lights.

Guelph, December 2008

kith and kin

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.

Dawson Girdwood

Fiddler extraordinaire Dawson Girdwood practicing before our big gig at Rebecca Cohn Auditorium.

Halifax, early 80s

divers women

There's something visually rich and weighty with a whiff of snoot about bound classics.

Bear River Heritage Museum, Nova Scotia, August 2006

aahh

Georgian Bay Ferry to Manitoulin, August 2008

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Guelph, Fall 1999

extemporized hat

It's a bowl. It's a hat. It's a bowling hat.

Guelph, December 2008

Birds on the Cutten Block

Wyndham and Macdonell, Guelph, December 2008

dylan graffiti in novie

Bear River, Nova Scotia, August 2006

button hat

Ani's button hat.

Guelph, December 2008

Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival

Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival, April 2005

Sir Winston Churchill

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." - Sir Winston Churchill

Halifax, August 2007

candles in the snow

Guelph, December 2007

beelightful

Cheryl McGowan, creator of Beelightful - handcrafted pure beeswax candles - available at the Guelph Farmers Market.

Farmers Market, Guelph, November 2008

lily of the valley

Guelph, May 2008

Goldie Sherman

MC Goldie Sherman at

Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival, April 2005

women playing with fire

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

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Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival, April 2005

santa claus parade

Guelph, November 2008

Annie's Apitherapy

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

Fraser and Debolt at a theatre in Toronto, 1973. Current websites are: Daisy Debolt and Allan Fraser.

Toronto, 1973

"one of the great feelings -- to stop being me for a little while, and to become us"

"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

frozen rainspout

Guelph, November 2008

Lumberyard Roof

Knights Lumber, Guelph, November 2008

hanger's on

Guelph, November 2008

cadence joy

Guelph, November 2008

speedvale avenue dairy

Guelph, November 2008

a building with no words

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

dancing real good, for free

Guelph Youth Music Centre, 2002

griot's journey

from Griot's Journey photo shoot...

Guelph Youth Music Centre, April 2006

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Clam Harbour, Nova Scotia, August 2007

sacred circle herbs

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

firewoman in the santa claus parade

Guelph, November 2008

ani's pink boots

Guelph, November 2008

flames on suffolk street

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

sunrise in eden

Sunrise at Tony's cabin.

Eden Mills, April 2004

toronto subway station

Toronto, 1973

in front of the circus tavern - toronto 1973

Toronto, 1973

hand finished

I think they misspelled promise.

Guelph, November 2008