Lady Santa, Bank Street, Ottawa

Sometime around 2005. I think she said she just liked dressing up as Santa.

 

Double rainbows over St. Lawrence, c. 2005

Double rainbow over St. Lawrence, c. 2005. Across from Cariboo Cameron's house in Summerstown - the pillar is gone but there are still two identical ones on the north side of the road at the entry to his house with the house's name, Fairfield, on it. There was a private park that was attached to his house on the south side of the road that was used by students when it was a private school, but it has been developed into houses. 

Scanned print p. 874.

Story Slam

 Story Slam at the Glengarrian pub - I told the story of Qadesh the Tiger 

 

Frost barn

scan from print, maybe 2005

 

New York Dolls

David Johansen died on February 28, 2025 - he was the last living member of the New York Dolls, a proto Punk Band. I'll never know how this LP made it to a sleazy junk store called the Wagon Wheel on Montreal Road in Cornwall, Ontario, where I bought it around 1977 - the Wagon Wheel was decrepit - there was a counter and it looked like it had been a soda shop in better days, and there was lots of cheesy porn on the wall, like an older woman holding a ketchup bottle between her breasts. The guy who sold me it marveled at how 'you could see the bulge' on the Dolls' costumes.

 

Green and Red Mushrooms

Mouse-pee Pinkgill, Entoloma incanum (from google) Both caps and stems of these mushrooms are green. Supposed to smell like mouse pee!

Hygrocybe cuspidata, waxy cap mushrooms

St. David's Day

 This time it was Loblaw's potato leek soup, made in Spain. Happy St. David's Day,