Monthly Archives: June 2019

is Skyfall (2012) artfully directed by Sam Mendes. (There is not one bad choice or weak, unnecessary transition between sequences.) Daniel Craig makes a superb Bond on all counts again. Javier Bardem makes a nasty, kinky, sadistic villain. Judi Dench … Continue reading →

It’s on the YEG police scanner online. Read the reader’s comments and postings in relation to the non-stop 24/7 crime reports. In one example, the scanner reports a guy with an axe going through garbage who is finally collected by … Continue reading →

I would stay the course, living largely in the present. I would continue working at restoring movement to my osteoarthritic knee. Resume bicycling. Definitely lunch one more time at the closing-forever Confederation Lounge of the Macdonald Hotel. Ring my bells … Continue reading →

Lying down beside Bighorn Resort parking lot where we stay. I love the close proximity to wildlife there.

4-year-old grandson

Trompe l’oeil style.

Don Quixote. Figurines I inherited from him.  

Gloxinia

  Ironically, we were in the Okanagan when the tornado hit Edmonton. My own worst experience goes back to March 4, 1966 (gr. 11) in Winnipeg, the day of the Big Blizzard when the city shut down for a few … Continue reading →