Sandra and Karmen, Thursday morning

Tree and Pont Jacques Cartier, ongoing...

So, yes, my series out my back door/porch continues. I've been doing it almost daily for about six months now, and have about 1600 pics that go from snow to buds to leaves to flowers to berries to picked clean by noisy birds.

Merles d'Amerique/ American blackbirds

Rainstorm and Aftermath

Fireworks

ranier maria rilke

says:
"have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves
don't search for the answers
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them
and the point is, to live everything
live the questions now"

I'm a fan of Marimekko...this is interesting, I like this designers work(bottom right). (below it's described from an add in Crate and Barrel)

Finn fine art. Instant international art installation via Marimekko ® of Finland artist fabric panels and our clever hanging hardware that un-frames this novel un-art. "Hetkia/Moments" (2003) by Maija Louekari draws the viewer into a b/w/grey urban street scene. A Maija Louekari design from Marimekko of Finland

untitled

she’s been left lonely
now,
for so many nights

fever as her lullaby
and too much room for thinking
in a bed for one

but it doesn’t matter much
once she sleeps
where
loneliness unleashes the beast

of bleeding hearts
and west wind
that blows her echo
far past where she’s been

and
there will be hell to pay
if he ever sees her again.

Primavera of the Prairie

oil on canvas, 2008

A Ghost in the Doorway

Thirty-five great Manitobans

watercolour & ink, 2008

Minglers Recording Session

Folk Magic

folk bodies

Backdrop by Dan Saidman

Planting '08

So, partly by choice, and partly out of financial necessity, I got to (was forced?) to re-live a part of my life I thought I had left behind forever-- tree planting.

And I will make no bones about the fact that I enjoyed it immensely. The communal nature of it, the interesting people, the intense hard work, the weeks on end without being indoors... all of it.

Almost all my pics were taken after the work-day back in camp, so the actual work itself isn't really represented here. I'm waiting for Stu, who has lots of pics and video from the clear-cuts, to send me some stuff. When he does, I'll post 'em, and you can get a sense of the actual labour, which is a whole other ball of wax. Much dirtier.

Sorry if the semi-nudity offends anyone... but people do have bums. :)

If you wanna see more pics, I posted 60 of 'em on my facebook page.

another Planting '08

More Planting '08