Monthly Archives: September 2019

Leisurely Reading for My Saturday

A glimpse into my sensibility…

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Down at the 7-Eleven This Morn

The young woman ahead of me in line buying a loaf of bread to start the day. Breakfast? Survival food? Needed for toast or a sandwich later? No matter how you cut it, survival or continuance for the body, self, … Continue reading

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“McDavid given green light to practise” headline

Trust The Globe & Mail to correctly know and still practise a spelling/usage distinction no longer made by the multitudes. (For those unsure: ‘se’ for verb use, ‘ce’ for noun use).

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Many of the ’50s and ’60s Top 20 pop songs I liked

were by black and brown performers, many of whom are retired, departed, and forgotten now. So, below, these were some of those favorite songs that impressed a white kid growing up in a Canadian prairie town listening to their music, … Continue reading

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A 4-year-old chalk artist on the driveway

“What’s that?” “Winter. Snow.”

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Banff Garden is always a treat the first week of Sept.

The town workers have redesigned flowerbeds and put in nice granite stone walkways. The front garden of the municipal building overlooking main street is the absolute best it has ever looked.

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A Monet in the Big Pond Below My Balcony in Radium

At Bighorn Meadows Resort. Great lighting effects there all day long. Sky and water canvases.

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The Wild Turkeys of Radium

First time I’ve ever seen them there. There is also a peacock walking around the townsite. The morning we were leaving, I was standing by the van when I heard a clunking behind me and turned around to see a … Continue reading

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I Never Get Tired of Seeing

Castle Mountain, Banff National Park by the turnoff to Highway 93 off #1.

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Best Spinach Quiche I’ve Ever Tasted

Bighorn Cafe, Radium. Their mochas are dreamy.

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