Monthly Archives: December 2022

Edmonton -32 (Windchill -42) –poem by RD

Winter City? Frozen North? (fact)Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”or Sam McGee incarnate.Too bloody cold for rats.Snow blown across Xmas potholes.Someone else’s bad dreamrammed down a senior’s throatlike feckless mayors, windrowsor snow-covered bike-lanes.City of a dead downtownawaiting invisible people.Awaiting the … Continue reading

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The Major Folk Songwriters After 1970

Bob DylanJoni MitchellLeonard CohenPaul SimonGordon LightfootJames TaylorJohn DenverCat StevensRoger WhittakerJim CroceDon McLeanLoreena McKennittStan RogersJudy CollinsBuffy Sante-MarieJanis IanSuzanne VegaKris KristoffersonHarry Chapin Tracy ChapmanJohn Prine                                    … Continue reading

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And so the snow has given way to glorious sun dogs:

(my daughter’s pic)

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Cold enough today for Jack Frost’s artistry on patio window:

Yup, it’s all in/about the beautiful details many times. The Art of Nature (cont’d). Follow-up the following morning (-30 windchill):

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