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  I know I’ve been thinking about my dad a lot.  And my brother.  This is probably my favourite photo of the 3 of us together.  I was 10, my brother would have been 3.5.   Dad was never comfortable being ‘in charge’ of us kids, but needs must and mom was having minor surgery so…

  This is a screen shot I just took from earth null school website.  All that yellow?  That’s smoke from wildfires.  And we are under the leading edge of it in that little circle. This morning I saw a comment on social media from someone in Manitoba.  They were shocked – shocked! – that the…

  I have very few photographs of my dad, most of them blurry ‘snaps’.  This studio portrait is one of the few I have.  (The inset is one of those blurry ‘snaps’ taken when he was around 10 years old.) For the past few years I’ve pulled this photo out, again and again, wondering what…

  Latest on the loom Continuing my quest to use up stash, some of it much older than I even know because ‘stash’, but I’m quite pleased with how this is looking on the loom so far. The ‘back’ is likely going to be the ‘face’ as this cloth is ‘unbalanced’ – in other words,…

  Alberta Storm Watch (group on Facebook) posted this photo of one of the fires burning right now. BC has seen it’s (un)fair share of out of control wildfires, but this year?  Mother Nature is making a much bigger impact by burning up the 3 prairie provinces.  You know, our bread basket?   So far we…

  After wet finishing the last warp, I decided how much I needed to be ‘concerned’ about the threading mistake I had made. The design is a modified Swedish Snowflake twill, which means it’s ‘fancy’ (read ‘busy’!) and if you look closely you can probably identify it.  But a cursory look?  Probably most people would…

  Swans.  They look so…majestic.  So calm.  But under the surface of the water, their feet are working to keep them on course. To any unexperienced observer, it looks so simple. Same with other skilled activities – like weaving. My father always pointed out someone skilled by saying ‘watch out for the people who make…

  These white roses grew on a series of rose bushes along part of the path I used to walk and I always loved them when they bloomed.  Unfortunately, someone cut them all down a few years ago, which I think was a shame, but my walk became less soothing with their disappearance.  Eventually I…

  I remember how controversial the idea was, to create a ‘new’ Canadian flag.  How many poo-poo’d the idea, some complained about the expense, etc.   Some people objected because ‘you can’t just *change* the flag’! I never saw the controversy, myself.  I thought the idea of using the maple leaf as a symbol was, well,…