the butterfly and the bumblebee
I lived in a village in Quebec for five years while I was a care partner to my mom who lived with dementia. One day in 2017, as I…
18 first-snow pics from in and around my place
We had our first big storm of the winter season in eastern Ontario on Friday, December 16, 2022. I took some pics in and around my place the day…
10 images from my mississippi mills
These are the ten images I entered in the Mississippi Mills Bi-Centennial Photo Contest. I don’t expect to win anything – there are so many amazing photographers in Mississippi…
surprise ride
I was drinking apple juice and biting into the first of three leftover Easter eggs – the little ones wrapped in various colours of thin aluminum foil – when…
country, music and cats
The black and white beauty above is my friend Judith’s cat, Oreo. Oreo is a sweetheart. Stubborn at times. But a sweetheart nevertheless. On the Sunday before Halloween, I…
13 late-night almonte images to mark halloween 2022
Some random late-night images, which I took in the streets of Almonte toward the end of October 2022. Click on the image below to see the rest. Happy Halloween….
last rides
The feeling of riding a motorcycle is hard to capture in words. The joy of doing so when Canadian autumn colours are at their most beautiful is impossible –…
gravel hazard panmure road & lanark 17
As I see the occasional rider on my Almonte/Blakeney/Pakenham/Blakeney/Almonte warm-up loop, I thought I would let everyone know there’s a lot of loose gravel on the corner of Panmure…
perfect timing
Sunday, July 24, 2022, Almonte, Ontario, Canada: I didn’t expect to ride today. We had intermittent deluges from early morning until late afternoon. It rained HARD. Then, at about 6…