Just now in the outback. And a link to a Petty album that is not named Waning Gibbous Moon Fever. Pity. youtu.be/aNMA3T030B4?...

So the French aristocracy mockingly called the Parisian revolutionaries "grenouilles" (frogs)...Vive les grenouilles ! Vive les grenouilles libre ! bsky.app/profile/barb...

Old favourite by an old favourite. rip jl youtu.be/N_J-hmyAS6c?...

Well, we'll always have that toque trick to remember.

Definitely a slow waking, riding, top down kinda day. But whatever you do, do not enter the woods.

Summer's into overtime in the outback: Trees still leafing, flowers still flowering, sunshine keeps sunshining. And tonight sees a good moon rising with the Canada's honking and a lone great horned hooting. Love this time of year.

Salt Spring Island. Where organisation & volunteerism and "buy / sell local" is next level. AND it's full of farmstands for everything from fruits and vegetables to jams, cut flowers and clothing. It's an honour system where you leave cash. Amazing.

They like cabbage with stuff on the westernmost coast...the Tacofino fish taco and the Japanese okonomiyaki street food from Toki Doki were as awesome as awesome can be. (surprise: pairs well with a brew)

The Leaf, surrounded by changing leaves, in a town that loathes the Leafs (though there are far too many who love da Leafs - we'll leave it at that).

Oak Anada? (I'm not saying I brought this weather back with me but it looks suspiciously familiar.)

...politicians, sit yourselves down, there's nothing for you here... youtu.be/z8ud5K4T8HI?...

Mossy autumny Canada.

Oak Lake, the Trans-Canada, the Assiniboine and Virden.

"To everything, tern, tern, tern There is a season, tern, tern, tern And a time to every purpose under heaven" pete seeger ...or a long-billed dowitcher...just doesn't work lyrically.

Sučas--Tree. Land holder lesson. Teach your children well...

"Rain rain rainforest Help strengthen my faith Touch the earth Where you feel the pain Bring rebirth Let me live again Good vibrations With mankind Could set me free So do it for me" Thx to Michel Pagliaro / William Finkelberg

If only there was a marine biologist nearby: "The sea was angry that day, my friends".

In July I was hanging around the Atlantic & the Trans-Canada's Mile Zero / memorial to Terry Fox in St. John's. Now, I've made it all the way across the country to the Pacific and...Mile Zero... Before moving to BC, Terry went to Wayoata Elementary School in Winnipeg. Long may he run!

Vancouver Island is the traditional territory of three major Indigenous cultural groups: the Coast Salish, the Nuu-chah-nulth, & the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples.

Noted!

Watching the hummingbirds swoop in and fight with the wasp to get at the nectar. Then fly to it's friends in a nearby Arbitus tree (Pacific Madrone - unuqie broad-leafed evergreen).

Getting 'round in o'canada.

Sing-a-long: I want to fly like an eagle (prolly a darned turkey vulture) To the sea Fly like an eagle (prolly a darned turkey vulture) Let my spirit carry me...apologies to Steve Miller

Apple Records:...over 400 varieties of organically grown apples on this island! You gotta try the hot apple cider & poached apple "Danish" at Francis Bakery.

Sometimes outhouses can be in beautiful spots!

Canada eh.

Don't get left behind...there's a few cuts on Ram that bring a big smile to my face.

What's up? Me. On the road again...

The place is looking fine as fall closes in (eventually). Wonder who'll be playing there on November 16.

The ceo of live nation is giving ceos a bad rap!

When the walls DO talk: an issue of the Saturday Evening Post, January 13, 1917 found during renos in the walls of my daughter's house. Is it live? Or is it New Edison? You can't tell the difference. I mean, it's chronicled in America's leading newspapers!!

Daughter sent me this: from the back of the pontoon boat on the Winnipeg River.

"I'm twenty-two now, but I won't be for long, Time hurries on, And the leaves that are green turn to brown." (but usually gold first then brown...but not the spruce, they stay green...but the tamarac turn golden then drop their needles...end of song. Whiteshell Manitoba

Waiting.

Awaiting today's scheduled end-of-times event. Takin' care of business on the first full day of autumn.

No new pictures, where are you mentally? ✌️ bsky.app/profile/shan...

Goooooood morning, Manitoba! "This is not a test. This is rock and roll. Time to rock it from the Churchill coast to the Lake of the Woods!". Or something like that. Apologies to the Robin Williams character.

Just a hint of a rainbow at Betula.

"I hear you knocking, but you can't come in I hear you knocking, go back where you been..." Thanks to Dave Edmunds

Time to come to Cheeses: The name of this pub grub food truck is "OH My Cheeses" a play on a Newfoundland expression of surprise or exasperation (today is very little surprise, more exasperation).

Calling Guy Maddin: If Day Winnipeg (1942). Now Day Globally (2025) youtu.be/8scLEt70yIE?...

In these times of rupture, I pick up my guitar and play...just "let the music take me where my heart wants to go". And The Wind by Yusuf / Cat Stevens came from out of the depths. Haven't played it in a long time. Been a long, winding road. 🕊 youtu.be/yXuq6XpoasE?...

Up next. In search of Colmcille and stuff.

I hear...only what I want to hear. youtu.be/UCBX6J5VUso?...

It's that time of year again. Watching a bit of the Jets Sens game in Montreal.

Met someone and moved to Winnipeg to share a life. Sounds familiar. He's right about many things here but especially the lakes. youtu.be/vctHzExb1iE?...

That was the summer that was and still is.

After sitting through the ultimate, reality-based, neo-noir set of moving images we have been exposed to recently, it makes perfect sense that this will be playing as the blame-shifting credits roll... youtu.be/Qp_djIuQ2Cw?...

Some Neil Young for your Thursday RS youtu.be/LO0Yqj8KxEc?...

"If the local rock scene has gotten you down..." Not sure what was better about this day-long concert: LED ZEPPELIN being scolded by local performer Diane Heatherington* for not taking the stage on q, or Ides of March stealing the show. *Bye Bye Babe TGW