Our garden is coming along nicely, but the best are the roses which are doing extremely well in spite of the heat. To be fair, we do tend them carefully, ensuring that they have the right amount of moisture and sun light. The roses are in containers so that they can be moved around in our tiny garden to take full advantage of sun and shade. Roses really ARE red. The intensity of colour and the scents are very satisfying this year. Continue reading Roses really are red
 This image is my latest multimedia work. And now that you’ve viewed it, Go Ride!! Find some flowers Continue reading No time like the present
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Snowfall casualties rescues from the garden assailed by heavy, wet snow. My kitchen glows with the vibrancy of this Doris Day Rose that was rescued after the stalk snapped under the weight of the spring snowfall. Continue reading Snowfall Casualties
The clouds rolling in Continue reading Alberta sky
Looking to the NW. Working with my new DJI drone Continue reading April Alberta sky
What to do now; We’re caught trying to maintain balance in the crashing waves of pandemic, supply chain disruption, new isolation rules, attempts to restart schools, less than carefully considered imperatives to ‘get back to work’ and natural disasters. What’s a person to do? What to do now!? Most of us are straddling two different worlds right now. There’s our personal life and stuff, and then there’s the business world which we haven’t completely abandoned or been separated from. Just because we’re at home, playing at being retired or furloughed doesn’t absolve us from responsibilities to provide advice to our … Continue reading What to do now; Plan, Prepare, Participate
The bubble bursts! Are you prepared for your Covid-19 bubble to burst? I know you’re ready! We’re all ready for a significant change in the way we’re responding to the pandemic, but are you actually prepared? September has always been a threshold for seasonal change in my part of the world. We’re hovering on the edge of harvest, the end of family vacation time arrives, the kids go back to school and the urbanized adults find themselves back at work with new imperatives for business success. This year September’s transformative role is being presented as far more than the normal … Continue reading The Bubble Bursts!
We are experiencing a rough start to what was intended to be my ‘retirement’. There are of course the expected concerns about cash-flow, and then the wondering what I’m supposed to do next now that I’ve replaced the structure of … Continue reading bumpy start to the retirement journey
Today it feels like I’m swimming upstream, moving against the current of my life, fighting just to stay in place and not appearing to be making any headway on my journey. My retirement plans, my writing and my painting are all on hold. My darling wife has had an odd cardiac incident; Takotsubo Syndrome, also known as ‘broken heart syndrome’. There will be more on this in a new post. I have developed an abscess on the right side of my neck. My ontological head and neck surgeon had a look, did a needle biopsy and ordered a CT scan. … Continue reading Swimming Upstream…?