Lunar Eclipse, August 27-28, 2026

Lunar eclipse starts 27 Aug 2026 22-45-28 EDT

Lunar eclipse just after maximum, 28 Aug 2026 00-15-30 EDT

 

Hopeful graffiti

Erratic boulder painted as a response to a public suicide in the region, Corner Glen Road and Summerstown Road, Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada

 

Another bad dream

 Another bad dream about Krystal. She was trying to shoot up and I couldn't stop her.

Geodesic roof

 More photos from 1992 -  E.A. Newell II Golden Dome in Ogdensburg, N.Y. , hockey arena with a geodesic roof. Infrared film.

First photo colourized by ChatGPT. This is a house I passed in upstate NY, probably somewhere near Hwy 37 in Morristown, NY, in 1992 - there was a mass of Tiger Lilies that had taken over the front yard. They sometimes remain even after the house has fallen down, and they are the only reminders that a farmhouse had been there. The house was for sale and a woman stopped and wanted to see inside, so we both went in - the interior was empty but the top floor had boxes full of books, some in German, from the late 19th century, including a travel guide to the USA, so the former resident(s) were likely immigrants.

I don't know why this one is colour - it might have be an infrared film slide or something.

 

10 Day Cafe

Ten Day Cafe, operated in Stratford,Ontario 1990s and 2000s, literally an underground club - the photos are of events that were associated with it in and around Stratford.

 

Snapping Turtle, Tortue serpentine, Chélydre serpentine (Chelydra serpentina)

Trying to cross road - I've learned it's not hard to move them (see Youtube)

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist

This is another set of photos that I don't remember who is the subject - I think I might have arranged to photograph her as she set out on a trip to Owen Sound and I was going to give her these. Maybe Guelph?

Ipperwash march

 The Ipperwash Crisis in 1995 was an armed conflict over a park that had been created on land expropriated from a native reserve on Lake Huron in western Ontario. I got one article in the Star over the dispute between the Ojibwe native people who wanted it returned to them and the government of Ontario before the crisis developed. The Ojibwe had been trying to get public attention about this for years before the crisis, which resulted in the death of Dudley George, who was shot by an OPP sniper. Here are some natives walking to Queen's Park, Ontario's provincial parliament in Toronto, along Highway 6 just north of Guelph in 1993. The staff is an Eagle Staff, which is like a flag for native people. The man carrying it explained that it represented the different First Nations that supported them and the fur, feathers and snakeskin represented the living things that also were concerned and supported them. He used the word 'people' in English to describe both the First Nations and the other living things. I've lost my notes so I don't know the names of anyone.

Peppermint in the gorge

I lived in Elora, Ontario in 1991. There is a gorge made by the Grand River and Irvine Creek that runs through the limestone bedrock in the middle of the town. Peppermint grows in abundance at the edge of the water, and I'd go down the steps at night to the creek bed and smell it.

 

Electrolier, Old Morris Tobacconists, Victoria, B.C.

This was in a cigar shop opened in 1892 in Victoria, British Columbia. Still looked like it did a century ago, but it's reported to be closing. Mark Twain is said to have shopped there when he was in town. Electrolier, made of a Mexican onyx column on a Nootka marble pedestal, under a globe illuminated from within, with gas jets on either side of the column for people to light their cigars. according to Victoria history writer Danda Humphreys, (Victoria Times-Colonist), Old Morris Tobacconists, 1116 Government St., Victoria, B.C , c. 1997

Clerk showing some cigars

 

Rogers Chocolates, Victoria, B.C.

Making pralines at Rogers Chocolates, Victoria, B.C, c. 1997

 

Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City, late 1980s.

 

New York City 1990

Washington Square Arch, New York City, c.1990

 

Eye billboard in snow

Eye billboard in snow, probably Quebec City late 1980s

 

Yellow daylily (Hemerocallis), Lis jaune

Yellow daylily (Hemerocallis), Lis jaune

 

Carnival rides, late 80s or early 1990s

 

Merlin dives off of power line

A merlin, a crow-sized falcon near Chesterville, Ontario dives off power line into cornfield after prey. Falco columbarius, Faucon Merlin

 

1938 Chevy V8 Pickup

1938 Black Chevy V8 Pickup

 

Rainbow over Akwesasne

Rainbow over Akwesasne. I think this is Fujichrome Velvia 50

 

Jackie Washington and Faith Nolan at the Festival of Friends, Hamilton, Ontario, 1987

I finished my last exam, walked to the road, and hitchhiked from Guelph to Hamilton.

Jackie Washington was a blues and other genres musician and radio DJ from Hamilton, Nolan is a social activist and musician from Halifax, NS

Jackie Washington, left, performs a duet with Faith Nolan

Faith Nolan with children at bandshell

 

Mammoth skulls and sabre tooth tiger fangs in a museum, maybe in New Mexico, c.1993

 

Curious horses by a collapsed house, Brasher Falls, NY, c. 1990

 

Concrete plant near Toronto

Concrete factory near Toronto at night, c. 1990

 

Cardinal in a tree

Male cardinal in a tree

 

Tabagie Ti-Gilles Smoke Shop

 There are/were two of these shops with the same name along Montreal Road in Cornwall. A Tabagie literally is a smoke shop in Canadian French (and a room for smoking in European French) but they usually sold magazines and books as well as other things - this place is a convenience store. 'Ti' is a particle that is short for 'petit', 'little', that is used in front of some people's names to make a nickname, here "Little Gilles".

Dalmatians at a dog show

Probably Guelph but could be Quebec City.

 

Barn dance, Monroe Mills Road, South Glengarry, August 2, 2026

 

Mayfly swarm

 Mayfly, maybe Giant Mayfly, Hexagenia limbata, large swarm in South Glengarry, Ontario near Lake St. Francis, August 2, 2026

Hit by my car

Mayflies on road

Octagonal house

Octagonal House, somewhere in upstate NY, I think, c. 1990

 

Hurdy Gurdy