Colours

August 20, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

There is something about summer and the full vibrancy of colours that makes me feel so alive. Haven’t had the energy to do much art, however, Summer’s artistry more than suffices.

Big Chute Marine Railroad

August 17, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

We managed a four-day vacation, travelling north to visit friends near Muskoka. Lovely, calm days spent waterside, catching up on our lives. As a side trip, we visited Severn Falls, Big Chute Marine Railroad. A simple. yet effective, construction for moving boats from one lake to another. Amazing to watch.

Khalil Gibran

August 13, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

My father kept “The Prophet” at his bedside, but as a child I did not understand the writings. Today, this passage hits me deeply. (My image)

Floral Interlude

August 10, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Our Ukrainian roommate loves to garden. Just three pops of colour she has planted to brighten her vegetable beds.

You are brilliance

August 6, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Things I wish my younger self knew, but then again, if we knew, would we try so hard to shine? It’s the paradox of life, isn’t it? I watch my teenaged granddaughters struggle, and I want to lift them up, but I know that words aren’t enough. Letting them know I believe in them is […]

Oh Baby!

August 3, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Our sunflowers attracted a few young birds – finches, I think. This one was fascinated with the zip tie holding up the plants.

One of these butts is not like the others…

July 30, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hey Lady, since when did this become an equal opportunity feeder?

Thinking of Ukraine

July 23, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

Antics from our neighbour to the South have empowered Putin and the attack on Ukraine has escalated. A friend reports that family back home are unable to work as their place of employment was bombed twice in one night. Another tells me the university in her city was bombed, destroying years old history. These are […]

Backyard Birds

July 20, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hard to pick favourites when it comes to birds. I love the shocking contrast of the White-Crowned sparrow’s head feathers. The cowbird is not a usual sight at our feeders, so a nice welcome. Waking up to find a pair of bobolinks in our yard was a first for me. I never tire of our […]

Spiral Dance

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

My daughter and I are speaking again, and I am learning how generational trauma resurfaces – sometimes with a different face, and often with a new perspective. Quite the journey, this thing called life. (Image and words my own)

Expectations

Expectations artificialliving in an urban junglelonging for nature’s calm – time moves too swiftlybarely registerlet alone participate We are guests in our ownexpectation’s dysfunctionlicensed for depression a smorgasbord for abuseintentions mislaid,disappointment unavoidable The ego pretends to be openbut she’s an actress off cueplaying out a sentence – condemned to basicspraying to escapethis dystopian malfunction. (Image […]

Overcast

Water mimics sky,withholds resplendent blue,dons grey overcoat. (Image my own, created from a photograph)

A Mother’s Grief

(Art my own. The drawing and the poem were in response to a documentary featuring a mother’s loss of her child by suicide. Please listen with care.) Sorrow lines her edgesin blue-hued shadowsgrief’s moss overpowering light Lines etched erasableshe is fragmented, hauntedpain a persistent noose She will rally to find orderlend her voice to causespeak […]