This is what I look out my window to see every morning in my neighbour's backyard.Yup. Looks like a kangaroo to me too.I live in Canada. Not a lot of kangaroos.Can't tell you how much I love looking out and seeing this guy. Very surreal...
Had a chance to get away a few weeks ago to Savary Island up the coast. The perfect break from it all.Two ferry rides and a last quick boat ride across to the island and we felt appropriately removed from all of that regular life...
The race to get back to the marina before it closes for the night....
A seal swam into the swimming bay last night, much closer than usual. At first I thought it was an old grey dog, and wondered who it belonged to, but a voice at the back of my head was saying, "I don't think so." A...
Look who I found as I headed out today. That's the inside of my front door he's hanging onto. (In my head, because of past visitors, my brain starts playing "Dweller on the Threshold" by Van Morrison. Just happens.) I believe he got there...
First you get to look. Then you get to munch.Sweet....
Isn't summer exquisite?I've been working very hard lately, very little time for painting.That's OK. My time will come. Have been avoiding blogging here a bit as I am supposed to be a painter and that's hard to blog when I am painting so little but...
All right. It's time.A few years ago one summer night the cat who sleeps on my bed leaped on with such a big thud that it woke me up. This in itself worried some far off, sleep-dim part of my brain since she usually comes and goes...
Whew. Not much time for painting or keeping up lately. This weekend though was a long weekend, with Canada Day on Monday. we had the first full burst of summer weather. I got up and painted Saturday and Sunday morning, first time in weeks, and...
It started a few weeks ago one day when I pulled up the driveway and was greeted and treated to an explosion of song and tweets and burbling, and with that one of my swallow family announced he was back from his winter away and he had stuff...