Purdon 2026

Showy Lady's Slipper Orchids are in full bloom at Purdon Conservation Area, near Lanark, Ontario

Et maintenant?

                                                    Jocelyn Forgues, (left) director of  "Et maintenant?", speaks at Aultsville Theatre in Cornwall

 "Et maintenant?" is about a musician dealing with cancer. Shot in eastern Ontario, including a house in Lemieux that must have been abandoned when the town was closed in 1990 before the landslide that destroyed the land where it was. I liked  Debbie Lynch-White, who played the bubbly volunteer driver.

Soccer Field in Fog at dusk, Gray's Creek Conservation Area, South Glengarry, Ontario June 7, 2026

 

Magic Tom's grave

Magic Tom was a Montreal magician who performed on both French and English Television. Magicpedia 

He's in the same cemetery as my parents and sister Mary.

                  Magic Tom's grave, 45.014535,-74.9277831, Plot 4366, St. Lawrence Valley Cemetery, 15570 County Rd 2 R.R. #3, Ingleside, Ontario

He did Bar Mitzvahs

And did French and English TV. I watched him all the time on CFCF-TV and I think I saw him live at Expo '67.

 

"Blue' moon rising over Adirondacks and St. Lawrence River, near Akwesasne Mohawk Territory

It's called a blue moon because it's the second full moon in this month.  

on May 28

Tonight, May 30

Rising over the Adirondacks  and St. Lawrence River

 

Einstein swears!

 When Einstein was working as a patent clerk in Switzerland, he called himself a Tintenscheißer, literally an 'ink sh**ter', a great word for a civil servant.

Hailstorm, May 29, 2026