Saddleback Harvestman (Mitopus morio) with mites, icelandic moss

Saddleback Harvestman (Mitopus morio), in Icelandic moss, Iceland 1992.The red dots on them are parasitic mites.

 

Morning glory, 1988

Morning glory, Elora, 1988

This was one of the first pictures I developed and printed myself.

 

Crossing New Delancey

New York, 1991

 

Alberta Referendum

They're really that dumb. Only Canadian citizens could vote in the Alberta referendum (permanent residents couldn't).
 

Kastner's closing

Kastner's is closing. It has been in business for 100 years and had been at this location since 1953. My mom got me a credit account there when I was 13 or 14 but I think I only used it once.

 

Albertine Lapensée

Albertine Lapensée, 1917, Montreal Star

 

Albertine Lapensée of Cornwall, Ontario, was 'the Star of Stars' of the Eastern Ladies' Hockey League, which briefly flourished during the First World War. She disappeared after the end of the war put an end to professional women's sports leagues in North America. A subject of many rumours, in fact she went to New York, became a cab driver and began to live as a man and used the name Albert. He married and adopted a daughter, and returned to the Cornwall area, ran a restaurant named "Chicky's" in Bainsville close to the 401 and the Quebec border  and died in 1963. He used the last name Smith, (not Smythe, as it appears in some sources) at least according to his obituary and his tombstone, which is in the middle of the east border of Cimetiere St-Joseph Cemetery in Lancaster, Ontario. The most extensive and up-to-date article about Albert is by Guillaume Piedboeuf for Radio-Canada (in French), available online here: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numerique/12820/albertine-lapensee-hockey-feminin-mystere-disparition-intersexualite

 

 

Drove downtown in the rain

 We can never drive downtown in the rain to check out the late night record shops. They've all closed. The Sam the Record Man flagship store on Yonge Street that Steve Page drove to at night closed almost 10 years ago. There's only one independent franchise in Belleville out of the hundreds that used to be across Canada.

I bought the 'yellow label' tape with 'Brian Wilson' on it from Steve for 5 bucks in 1991.

Steve Page, 1991. I also bought the same shirt at a Rheostatics show.

The 'yellow label' cassette