My Blog site crashed again last night and after I got it back up my bookmarks had disappeared. I have managed to get a Neighborhood started with those sites I follow in Blog-city but this widget will not accept outside blog sites so will be putting d

 VIEW FROM MY STAIRWELL  ME TODAY  STREET SCENE IN WATERCOLOR  LOOKING AT ME LOOKING AT YOU  Read an article from the NYT about a couple who broke up over the stress of living through the renovations of a

 A creative block, the doldrums of fall are here, there is less light and aside from street lights and the occasional un-shuttered window there is no natural light. Kinda suits my mood, there must be some bear in my DNA because I seem to want to

 ON YOUR MARKS  GET SET  NO!  THE SHADOW OF A DOUBTThe coffee is buzzing in my earsas the world dissolves into a puddle of tears.Talking to my daughter the other dayabout her mother who had passed away.Things are sa

       Remember, daylight saving timeis over so roll over and have an extra hourof sleep. Ciao, JWL

Musing in a year that has almost gotten away from us, Halloween tonight when I will giving out goodies to my neighbors kids and taking their portraits for their parents and the Co-op newsletter.Prompted several people I haven't heard from in a lo

 Oh joy, the Olympic flame is about to arrive from Greece and all the talking heads on Canadian TV are so excited and breathlessly reporting the excitement of the dimwits selected to carry the "flame" and the efficiency of the Canadian

As you no doubt know I am a fan of the CBC but it seems lately that they are going to great lengths to annoy their fan base at least on TV. CBC Newsworld has gone to another name change and the channel on Shaw is one of the affected channels that att

 My morning rituals, the ingredients   Thank you Billy! The old inbox today reveals that there is a new medal proposed for those of us who served during "The Cold War" at Nato postings in Europe and remote areas of

First coffee drank, CBC1 on he sound track and a quick scan of the news sites, and a fit of sneezing. I see there has been a resignation of a senior US diplomat in Afghanistan because he claims that the US has no clear policy to conduct the war or fo

Having just lost several friends and members of my family to the disease and being a cancer survivor myself what Lance has to say is vitally important. October 26, 2009 10:37 a.m. EDTSTORY HIGHLIGHTS    •    La

 ONE OF THOSE DAYSi have nothing to doand all day todo iti have no whereto goand all day to get therei have nothingto seeand all day tolook at iti have nothingto listen toand all dayto hear itthe muse dances nakedin imaginationthe only imageon m

I haven't had the chance to read Gen. Rick Hillier's book yet but according to the reviews its pretty explosive because he lays bare the problems of a  bureaucracy determined to never make a decision or choice that may come back to haunt

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Nobel Prize for Evo Morales     By Fidel Castro     October 18, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- If Obama was awardedthe Nobel for winning the elections in a racist society despite his beingAfrican American

 Power outage  Coffee and a cow pie cookie     The airspace is full of helicopters busily flying around looking for terrorists, doesn't that make you feel safe and getting value for the one billion dollars

  The revolution eats its own, promises not kept and the reality that the new boss is the same as the old boss. Listening to the short wave Radio South Africa and the complaints from former fighters who have gained little or nothing from wi

 JOYwe shared the streetfrom keefer to powelldown to the sunrise marketme, this grandfather, and the boythe grandfather  taciturn, slow and graveand the boy bouncing along with exuberant joyfull of questions and mischiefand i, the other gra

   Sketches, most of us photographers wish we were painters and people who could draw. Thank the fates for Photo Shop, its not perfect but its close and I'm not busy with my eraser rubbing out the marks I didn't mean to make, h

       Just like the old days shooting "grip and grins" or weddings I was back on the job. Didn't have to hang around my digs and got a very fine supper for my efforts. Ian and Marthe are off in Italy

 Reflections in watercolour  Tools of the trade  Inside  Out  REFLECTIONS ON A "SALTY TONGUE"milessketches of spaincoffee in the tonguein out of the rainalmost too perfectan instant the photographerwa

 Not much information from the Dr. yesterday just more tests which I never seem to get any results from. Costco didn't have my prescription in stock and I'm waiting for a call from them. Got out to the Tongue this morning and had a three

 WHICH ONE WOULD YOU CHOOSE?John Lee Hooker CROSSROADS 15/10/2009/00:57 hrs.WWOZ on the sound track and another night of being unable to sleep. Have an appointment with Dr. Feng at 11:30 this morning. I'm making a list of my ailments an

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THINK BEFORE YOU LAUGH. and article in my in box from good friend Kenny "V".    New York Times