College Royal is Back

….not as big as in years past but open non the less

In the past College Royal has attracted up to 30 000 visitors but in the last two years it was mostly virtual and this year it was limited to staff, students and family members. It was much smaller in size but we enjoyed our two days of exploring the campus, speaking to the exhibitors, learning new things, watching the dog show and walking through the barns.

If you had any doubts as to the what the University of Guelph is all about, College Royal highlighted the agricultural, veterinary and animal and food sciences. As a graduate of U of G I can tell you that there is much more to this university, i.e., Family and Child Studies, The Arts, Biomedical studies, Business and Economics, Athletics, Human Kinetics, etc.. Hopefully in future years College Royal will be back to hosting more clubs, more of the arts, fashion shows and will have more hands on activities and bring back the milkshakes.

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Three Generations of Guelph students, past and present

TGIFFF – Tonguely Stole a Tractor

….March 25, 2022

Last weekend we were worried that Tonguely might get into some more trouble at College Royal at the University of Guelph. Well we were right. After making a few new friends he managed to go joy riding in a tractor.

Thursday Trio – A Spiky Trio

….March 24, 2022

A busy week and also very wet but I did manage a walk to the Marina where I came across this trio of teasels. If you have any trios you’d like to share with me just copy my link and paste it into your post. I’ll get a ping back and I’ll be sure to leave a comment. Have fun!

Wacky Bird With Attitude

….Kevin wanted me to post this one last Tuesday

Tuesday was a tough day for us. We heard that we were in contact with COVID on the weekend and we needed to take some rapid antigen tests. We’re leaving for France in two weeks and today our daughter is visiting from New Brunswick. The good news is that we’ve all tested negative.

So this bird was named Ticked Off Tuesday. Does he look a bit miffed?

Two More Paintings Finished

….and one is a sunflower

I think I complained that I couldn’t paint sunflowers. Well I persisted and the smaller of the two paintings features a sunflower. Both paintings started out as large pieces that I ended up cutting down in size and painted over what I had already done. It took several tries but I’m finally happy with the final outcome.

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Acrylic 6 1/2″ x 8″ unmatted
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9″ x 11″ unmatted

Here’s a photo with both matted and framed and sitting side by side.

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