Orange Shirt Day/National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

 

Orange Shirt Day/National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Lamoureux Park, Cornwall, September 30 2026. Social dance, open to everyone. I don't know the name of the drum but they were very good. A woman in a hijab joined in. Multiculturalism at its finest.

Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada - full list here 

Lacrosse players - the game was developed by Haudenosaunee and other First Nations.

'Gutch' Salinas of  Kakhwí:io foods in Akwesasne shows me how flint (hard) corn is prepared. The grains are boiled in water with wood ashes, which produces an alkaline reaction in a process called Nixtamalization that softens the corn and releases nutrients. It can be pounded in a mortar into a flour that can be made into a mush with other ingredients like beans, or the grains of corn can be eaten as is. 

Mother and Mary in New York

New York, 1991, my sister Mary and mother on the right. Mary was working in the gift packing department at Bloomingdale's.

 

Ojibwe Spirit Horse

Ojibwe Spirit Horse, also known as the Lac La Croix Indian Pony, is a breed of horse developed by natives. Truth and Reconciliation event, Morewood, Ontario, 26 September 2026

 

Bring Back The Future with Sharon, 1991

 

This building was Len's Mill Store in Guelph

Monarch, Sainte-Foy, 1989

 

Female Monarch, Sainte-Foy, 1989

Seal, Quebec City

Seal, Aquarium du Quebec, c. 1989

 

André Arthur, radio host and future MP c. 1989

AM talk show host and future MP meets with journalism students from Laval University at CHRC radio in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, c. 1989

 

Claude Ryan, Quebec Liberal Party leader c. 1989

Claude Ryan, Quebec Liberal Party leader c. 1989, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, Quebec

 

 

Traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse recreation

This is a recreation of a traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse - several families of the same clan would live  in apartments in it. Women traditionally enter through the western door, men through the eastern one. Akwesasne, c. 1989

 

Times Square, 1991

 

Another photo of Demonic Dave

A surprisingly cheerful David Cronenberg, U of Toronto, 1991 or 1992

 

Women's Studies and a busty secretary

 I took a Women's Studies course in 1982, "Introduction to Women's Studies,". It was the first one the University of Guelph had for its new Women's Studies program, and Leslie Marshall, a professor there had wanted to get men into it and talked to me about it. I was in a bad place as I'd come back from Europe and found a friend I really liked wouldn't talk to me any more and another had run up bills on the phone when I sublet my apartment to him. .I didn't really understand the course, One woman in the class that I liked was a smart and pretty woman with long brown hair and large breasts who I just decided to be mean to because I was mad at other people and riffed on her being a secretary. I saw her again two years later at a party when something else involving being betrayed was about to happen. She remembered me being mean.

A dog's memorial

When my father was dying in the hospital I found the closet open in his bedroom at home and his slipper on the bed. Our dog Punch had been taking it out and putting it on the bed. 1990. Ilford 120 film, dust removed by AI.

 

Wind Turbine near Winchester, Ontario

Wind Turbine near Winchester, Ontario

 

Dan Palmer. and mustache

Dan Palmer, epic mustache guy from Death by Stereo, playing at K of C hall, Cornwall, Ontario, September 15, 2026. One thing I hadn't seen before is the man who was running the mix board could use a tablet and stand in front of the stage to check adjust the sound remotely.

Poster for show

 

Les neiges d'Antan

Snow coats trees, Winegard Walk, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada c. December 1991

 

Akwesasne Powwow 2026, dancing under a rainbow

I only got to the Smoke dances and the Dancing for the Future Path.

There was a beautiful rainbow over Lamoureux Park at the Akwesasne Powwow 2026 on Sunday around 5pm.

Please feel free to use these photos! Niá:wen!

 

Home made boat on Grand River, Elora, 1990s

Home made boat on Grand River, Elora, 1990s

 

Calling Dr Pain!

 

 

Dr Peter Pain,Chiropractor, Kingston, Ontario

Angry building, Oregon or Washington, 1999

According to passersby, the builder had exceeded the permit height and the local government issued a stop work order. The builder did not take it well. I think this is Oregon coast but it could be Washington, 1999. 

 

Anna, French bulldog

 

Flowers in spring snow, Guelph, 1990s

 

Coral Fungus, Minnesota, 1999

 

Mom's ghost and comet

My late mother in front of the Hale-Bopp comet, c. 1997. Long exposure with flash.

 

Narita, Japan, 1998

 I guess I've been to Japan three times - I passed through it going back and forth to Thailand on my way to Malaysia in the fall of 1998, and as a destination in 2000.

I didn't have time to see Japan the first time, and the return I only had a bit of a layover - enough to take the train to Narita city and quickly see a temple. I had to use a cheap camera that I bought after I broke mine. I got out of the station and happened on the temple.

Naritasan Shinsho-ji

真言宗智山派 成田山 新勝寺 :

The street leading up to the temple looked like it had been a tourist destination for centuries. A shopkeeper said 'Good Morning' to me in English as he opened his shop for the day.

 

Fire in Akwesasne, 1990s

I think this is a prescribed burn as it happened a few times in the early Spring. Akwesasne, 1990s

 

Mushrooms

  Maybe Dryad's saddle (Cerioporus squamosus) mushrooms