Egret

 

Mushrooms, violets, and horsetails

 

Mr. Blockhead

You can insert a nail all the way up your nose. Warm-up act for Juno award winner Art Bergmann, at the 10 Day Cafe, Stratford, Ontario 

 

Phone booth where immigrants sought shelter

Marty's Corner Store, Glen Walter, Ontario, Old Highway 2. Phone booth was where in 2000 five immigrants were abandoned in minus 15 weather without winter clothes. They were from China and Korea and were probably waiting for someone to pick them up to take them across the St. Lawrence to the USA. Phone booth and store now demolished.

 

Bryggen, Bergen, Norway 1982

 

Sugarcubes, 1992

 

Bjork, Einar of The Sugarcubes, Masonic Temple, 888 Yonge Street Toronto, April 13, 1992

Ed Broadbent, 1936 - 2024

 Former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent died today - one of the nicest people I've ever interviewed. 

photo: Broadbent Institute | Institut Broadbent

Progress Gala -- Ed Broadbent

Bear's Head

Bear head welded by Kyle Thompson,  item was at 2023 Art Basel Miami Beach

Dec 8, 2023 – Dec 10, 2023

@kytho.metalcraft

 

Covid-19 vaccine booster, feel fine.

Covid-19 vaccine booster, feel fine. Pfizer again, no probs except for trivial injection site soreness . I couldn't get the new vaccine as soon as it came out, contrary to what the US CDC recommended, as Health Canada recommended only getting it after six months since the last vaccine

No celebratory gunfire this year

 Usually at New Year's there is celebatory gunfire from fully automatic AK-47s along the St. Lawrence. I didn't hear any this year - I guess they were thinking that it would remind people of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.