20 reasons to be grateful for my #ridethehighlands 230723
Today was another perfect day for riding. I got up early and was away by 07:30; I got home more than eleven hours later. Of course I didn’t ride…
the magnificent margaret moth
Today, March 21, 2023, is the thirteenth death anniversary of one of my heroines, camerawoman Margaret Moth. Moth began her journalism career in her native New Zealand and joined…
don’t say a word
February 19, 2023: This poem was inspired by the beautiful love song at the bottom of the post. The love song was originally sent to me on January 12,…
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…
20 pics of my 2022 crystal christmas tree
When I moved to The United Arab Emirates with my then husband in 1993, I began festooning my non-traditional overseas trees with Swarovski crystal and glass decorations. Wherever we traveled,…
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…
mississippi mills council ‘reporting’ reboot
I’m not really a political animal. When I lived overseas, I didn’t have a vote and had no control of what happened around me. But in Canada, my vote…
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…
we rode a long way, baby
“I didn’t think you’d be back,” the Ottawa Safety Council (OSC) instructor said on the morning of September 12, 2021. It was day two of the OSC M1 exit course…