Salvage Harbour

 

At the wharf of the shuttered fish plant.... renovation plans are currently underway to turn the building into a brewery and restaurant.

Salvage

 

Some views of the community of Salvage on the east coast of Newfoundland. Sunny and calm, but Newfoundland weather isn't always so kind. This is the North Atlantic. 

Summer skies

 Happy Summer! I haven't been blog-posting for a while..... lack of inspiration along with being basically lazy..... but I'm still reading your blog posts and leaving comments. I'll find any replies by checking in here.  (Edit: this is not a photo of where I live now, it is a photo of where I USED to live.)

Walking Through the Fire

Walking Through the Fire.... in collaboration with Sultans of String and the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra. What a great concert yesterday.... loved every minute of it.

A very unusual and effective combination of a 50 piece symphony orchestra, the Sultans' lively international music, and the music of the First Nations people of this country.

Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuck. She can sing, play the fiddle and step dance at the same time.

2023 Books

 The list of books read during 2023.... as usual Canadian authors shown in RED, British authors in BLUE, American authors in GREEN.

JANUARY

The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng

Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin

Finding Edward - Sheila Murray

Sea of Tranquillity - Emily St.John Mandel

FEBRUARY

Utopia - Heidi Sopinka (DNF - got as far as page 3)

Make Ink, a Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking - Jason Logan

Ducks, Two Years in the Oil Sands - Kate Beaton (graphic novel, well worth reading!)

The Glass Hotel - Emily St.John Mandel

MARCH

The Hungry Ghosts - Shyam Selvadurai

Uncertain Kin - Janice Lynn Mather

When We Lost Our Heads - Heather O'Neill (DNF)

Mouth to Mouth - Antoine Wilson

Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel

APRIL

The Mystery of Right and Wrong - Wayne Johnstone

The Maid - Nita Prose

MAY

Fayne - Mary Anne MacDonald

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Chris Hadfield

Station Eleven - Emily St.John Mandel

JUNE

Spare - Prince Harry

The Finder - Will Ferguson

Miss Benson's Beetle - Rachel Joyce

First Snow, Last Light - Wayne Johnstone

Making Handmade Books - Alisa Godden

JULY

The Lindbergh Nanny - Mariah Fredericks

Custodian of Paradise - Wayne Johnstone

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon

Queen's Gambit - Elizabeth Freemantle

AUGUST

The Art Thief - Noah Charney

A Tidy Ending - Joanna Cannon

Three Things about Elsie - Joanna Cannon

Don't Tell Me You're Afraid - Giuseppe Catozzella

SEPTEMBER

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 

Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson

The Juggler's Children - Carolyn Abraham

Big Sky - Kate Atkinson

The Lake House - Kate Morton (DNF - just didn't grab my imagination)

OCTOBER

Cooking for Picasso - Camille Aubray

The Second History - Rebecca Silver Slayter (DNF - not my sort of book)

11/22/63 - Stephen King

Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson

NOVEMBER

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood

Diamond Eye - Kate Quinn

DECEMBER

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter - Hazel Gaynor

The Rose Code - Kate Quinn

After the Bloom - Leslie Shimotakahara

Currently reading: Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood

Breugel-Boche Bus 2

 Some details of the Breugel-Boche bus....

There's a video about this marvellous bus, please have a look ----

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQdOu0kqswE

Breugel-Boche Bus

The Bruegel-Boche Bus.... an amazing mindboggling piece of art displayed in it's own room at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario.  The artist started with an old 1960 VW bus, just like the one I had many years ago, and started elaborating on it.  He started in 1996 and the construction is still continuing. 

It's a marveroolus (love that new word, I just made it up by accident) piece of imagination. The bus appears to pull a post-industrial universe displaying a cornucopia of fantastic and seductive worlds, and I wonder if it will ever be finished!

More photos to come......