…thanks to Cee for hosting the Fun Foto Challenge
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Black and White
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Author Archives: Mama Cormier
“Is it a Choo Choo Squirrel?”
…..a what????
I find it fascinating what goes through the mind of a three year old. This drawing was meant to be a cat but I guess if you look at the background as being a tail it could be a squirrel. Where the ‘Choo, Choo’ comes in is beyond me.
There are days when I feel just like this ‘cat’; confused and bewildered by the state of the world.
Monster Monday – January 21, 2019
….today’s comment from Winnie…..”too silly monster”
Brrrr!!!
….it’s sooooo cold
At first it looked like winter would never arrive but then the snow came and the temperatures dropped to -13 degrees Celsius with a wind chill of -20. For my American friends that would be the same as -4 Fahrenheit.
It’s even too cold for my dog, Frances. When nature calls she goes out and comes right back in.
Sunday Trees – 375
….thanks to Becca Givens for hosting Sunday Trees
Silent Sunday – January 20, 2019
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A Photo A Week Challenge – Vanishing Point
…thanks to Nancy Merrill for hosting A Photo a Week Challenge
van·ish·ing point
/ˈvaniSHiNG ˌpoint/
noun
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the point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge.
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the point at which something that has been growing smaller or increasingly faint disappears altogether.
This is How I Feel Before My Morning Coffee
….thanks again to my husband for his brilliant drawings
Our First Major Snow
…..in week three of January
I thought we were never going to need the snow shovel this year but a big storm has moved into the northeast of the U.S. and southern Ontario. Here in Toronto it’s been snowing all day but very lightly. I did sweep the snow off the porch and did one pass with the snow shovel over the sidewalk this afternoon.
Forty kilometres west of here in Hamilton it’s been quite a different story. Lucy, our daughter’s dog, had to make a path through about 10 to 20 cm of snow to find a place to pee. This photo was taken about six hours ago. I’m sure the amount of snow has doubled since then.
Hopefully I can get out tomorrow and get some of my own ‘snow’ photos. They’ll be the first this season but Toronto often gets bypassed by the bigger storms.
Art at Montgomery’s Inn
….the new art season at Montgomery’s Inn has begun
Now that the renovations at the inn are 95% complete they are able to host art exhibitions in the Briarly Room once more. Just over two weeks ago I helped curate and install the art work of Shannon McManus.
Shannon is an abstract painter who uses different mediums on Terraskin and Yupo papers. In her artist statement she describes her work thusly: My abstract paintings depict visions of a natural world largely untouched by humankind. They portray the alchemic reactions inherent in stone, water, and earth; in decay, germination, migration and transformation.
Ten days after the installation the inn hosted the opening reception for Shannon’s show. It was very well received and close to 100 people showed up.
Shannon is on the left side of the previous photo.
Last April, Shannon was invited to display her work in China.
If you’d like to see Shannon’s work first hand you can still catch it at Montgomery’s Inn until March. For more information about Shannon and her art go her website here.
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