Split Grilse Mary Pratt 1979

The newly-laid asphalt on the Tupper/Laurier Park multi-use path, today at dawn (7:22 AM)

The Rennie’s River pedestrian trail on this mauzy, perfect autumn morning:

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The Kent’s Pond Trail about 7:15 this morning. The colours of autumn, but more than a hint on summer still in the air :

A perfect day for a run on the beautiful urban trails of St John’s:

Today’s Canadian painting is “Thunderhead” painted by Tom Thomson in 1913.

The Virginia River Pedestrian trail, tonight at 8 PM

Kent’s Pond, this morning at 7:35

The Long Pond trail this evening: a moment of calm in a tormenting world

Apply before the deadline for this worthwhile scholarship #IndigenousLawStudent ✨🎓

Agucadoura, Portugal, this evening at 9 o’clock

Porto: today at 2:20 PM

The Kent’s Pond Trail, this misty morning at about 6:50

I just voted, half a kilometre from my house, 9 AM on voting day and the entire process took 8 minutes. This has been typical of my voting experiences over the last 40 years. Whatever the failures of our political processes, a lot of positives there as well.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

As earworms go, I could be doing a lot worse than “Here, There and Everywhere”

“You are neither here nor there, A hurry through which known and strange things pass” - Seamus Heaney, born on this day in 1939

Hamas launches legal battle in UK, demanding to be removed from terror listing www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-terr...

The Virginia River pedestrian trail, this morning at 6:20 :

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

This morning’s run down the Virginia River pedestrian trail and around Quidi Vidi Lake

9% of Americans have a “very or somewhat” favourable view of the Black Death??!

Supporting the apartheid, genocidal state of Israel no matter what cruelty it inflicts and no matter how many laws it breaks would be her values, not Canadian values. The only moral response to evil is to challenge her and those like her at every opportunity

“My host uses a curious phrase when he speaks of retiring from work. He calls it ‘making his soul’” - Lawrence Durrell, “Mountolive”, P. 32

This is what our Canadian government is supporting. MPs who support Israel must be challenged everywhere they go

Bravo! 👍 vocm.com/2025/03/11/s...

The Virginia River pedestrian trail, this morning at 8:45

Photo-op this morning at Quidi Vidi lake with local celebrity Finn

The point Turner made here was made many times throughout Canada’s history, including by John A MacDonald in the 1870s and 1880s and Robert Borden in the 1911 election. The wisdom of those leaders is bleakly apparent today

It seems we were warned of this risk back when NAFTA was signed... #cdnpoli #canada 🇨🇦

The Virginia River pedestrian trail today at 7:07 AM. The trail surface has been groomed by walkers, runners and snowshoers

The Virginia River Pedestrian Trail, about 7 o’clock on this midwinter morning:

The wise words of Ms Blackmore and Mr Burry really hit home And a first-rate piece of journalism. Perfectly chosen images, then stepping back to allow these beautiful people to tell their stories www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Paul Evans Fields Under Snow, 2022

Articulated streetcar (reflection), Richmond & York, today at 9:30 AM

Judge Noonan was, I believe, the fourth woman called to the bar of Newfoundland and the second female judge appointed here (I could be slightly off on either of those numbers). I appeared before her often in the early years of my career and learned a lot from her. RIP www.cauls.ca/obituary/mar...

Young woman wading in the surf at Store Bay, Tobago, today at 6:17 AM

Fishing boats at Pigeon Point, Tobago, taken today at 6:28 AM

Twitter needs to be regulated by the CRTC or some similar agency and/or held accountable in civil court by the victims of these defamatory scams

Shine on you crazy diamond ♥️

🎵Then she opened up a book of poems And handed it to me Written by an Italian poet From the thirteenth century And every one of them words rang true And glowed like burnin’ coal Pourin’ off of every page Like it was written in my soul from me to you Tangled up in blue🎵

The air is cool but the woods are lovely and our St John’s pedestrian trails are, even on January 18th, fine for walking or running:

“America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956.” www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16: