A fine knife made by a Saskatoon knife maker. I lost his card, which is sad - he asks everyone to update him on his knives, good or bad. And this knife is excellent. I wish I could tell him. Such good work.

Ok - Polish hot horseradish and old cheddar cheese sandwiches - a great start to the day.

Welcome to our house, Leslie’s thrift store find. A 22-inch solid beauty of rolling pin.

Corn meal, flour, baking powder, sugar. Watching the mix of it go granular. Corn bread soon.

To believe in this living, is just a hard way to go. - Angel from Montgomery

Last year, we took my grandson to Newfoundland. Now, he just wants to go back.

Who dat?

Had to read Hansard from 1987-88 for Newfoundland for something I was working on today. Realized essentially everything the govt highlighted in its throne speeches later failed - often, epically.

Happy spoon.

At minus 38 with a windchill of -50, HOW CAN THERE BE MIST?????

Hoarfrost or time ice.

Winnipeg stalagmite - winter ice, growing from the ground up.

Oxford English Dictionary, 1954 edition.

Blizzard came.

Cold clear day in Winnipeg and the sun dogs are here.

Lap cat, watching over the neighbourhood.

What a day.

The days here are all at once into the decay of fall. Leaves drop, evenings cool. We approach the time of stews and sauces.

A pleasant surprise. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/m...

Two of my favourite apple trees, Apple Tree 1 and the Hidden Tree, survived the CBN forest fires.

Post-bird, chiaroscuro.

Walked here.

Felt some sympathy for this.

Saw this.

Picked these.

They just … keep … coming.

Evening. (In real life, it’s a little more forest fire orange.)

And … Steve Earle enters the music mix.

Salad of yellow wax beans, snap peas, green onions, tomatoes and peaches….

Going to soon start planning the way to live in art.

Overheard on the street tonight: “Well, you’d better hurry, because a lot of those people are dying…”

Another day draws to a close.

Harmonica guy just went by. Plays music on his phone while riding with no hands and accompanying the music on a harmonica. What could go wrong?

Wave lace.

Canada Day - a boy and a stick.

In the backyard, and the neighbour’s backyard band is playing an excellent version of REM’s “Losing my religion.”

The sea got this far.

Winnipeg meets forest fire smoke. Again.

Appiness is not a happ.

Got some lovely early garlic. The kind where the skin hasn’t hardened up into thin paper. And the cloves are sticky-wet and strong-smelling. Love it.

Nothing I’ve ever read and valued would be improved by having AI repackage it for me.

Grandson meets the ocean for the first time.

This week’s Free Press column. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

What a wildfire took - in minutes. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

So, this Winnipeg mosquito tried to bite me, and a minuscule tree worm descended from my eyebrow on a gossamer thread. Summer approaches.

Me this week. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Manitoba does this kind of sky better than any place I’ve ever been.

Winnipeg signs go dark…

Lost this place last night in an out of control wildfire. We are gutted.

I saw my first Cybertruck in Winnipeg today, and realized its profile was the kind of thing I used to draw in grade 9 with my tinned geometry set.