Junk Drawers

November 19, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’m attending Restorative Yoga classes. It is yoga positions totally supported. Relaxing. Focus on breath and on releasing tension. We do something called supported fish (I think) – lying face down with a bolster under our hips. “Our junk drawers”, the instructor says and I almost laugh out loud. The last time I went for […]

A Favourite Woodpecker

November 16, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Although their call is quite loud, these beautiful, bright-headed birds are elusive. I had to be patient and sneaky to capture these shots of the Red-bellied Woodpecker.

Snow’s Arrival

November 12, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The three and nine year olds don’t want to come in out of the snow. The parents are too cold to stay out – not yet attired properly. I feel my bones ache at the chill of it. How quickly our perceptions change, but isn’t that life? A bird’s eye view:

November Moon

November 9, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Photographed above our home, Thursday, Nov. 6, 7:40 pm

Love Vs. Fear

November 5, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

The woman in the video I’m watching says that she is in support of the cuts to Medicaid, claiming that she has been paying for healthcare for illegals. I cringe. There is so much wrong with this statement, but the point that strikes me the deepest is the lack of humanity. I don’t know how […]

Barn and Silos

November 2, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Two perspectives of the same barn and silos before an Autumn storm.

I’m a Creep

October 29, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Halloween brings out our shadow sides – a chance to express those hidden fears and quiet thoughts. Working with AI, I have brought some of my self-portraits to life, creating 3-D monsters which bring to mind the song “I’m a Creep” by Radiohead. “But I’m a creepI’m a weirdoWhat the hell am I doing here?I […]

October Drive

October 26, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Capturing the tail end of Autumn on a recent drive to town. The clouds never cease to mesmerize me.

Orchids

October 22, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Our home, with all its windows and light, seems to be a good host for orchids. Here are a few of our plants.

A Wish for Peaceful Resolution

October 19, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

What times we are living in. One for the history books for sure, as 7 million people took to the streets yesterday in support of the No Kings protest. As an outsider (Canadian), I am pleased to see my neighbours take action, peacefully, to oppose what is happening at a governmental level. I cannot imagine […]

An Escape Plan

An incorrigible hagengages my loneliness –like an assassin sniffing outany scent of vulnerability I am lowering standardsthis history of imprisonmentenabling inappropriate openings I cry for new perspectiveponder after boundariesintending to defend Like an unwanted bullseyeI am pursued on repeatmalice considering mea problem to be solved Who is this old womanwhose thoughts are daggerswho calls upon […]

Making of a Woman

I know that abyss –swallowed up as I waspunch-drunk on darkness Bled as I emerged,each reach a scrape –there was release too Revived now, I honourthat passage, recognizethe making of a woman. (Making of a Woman first appeared here, December 2021. Image: self portrait in ink)