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Lisa
@big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social
disappearing Ontario landscapes, cinq à sept, heritage, books, theatre, garden/flower report, kitchen chronicles, gallimaufry counter-programming
Look for the big red raincoat.
Elsewhere: IG harmony_in_brown_and_grey
Who says you cannot wear pink after Labour Day.
#WindowsOnWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Other side of the tracks.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Resting in the shadows of high rises, hydro corridors, and mulberry trees—not far from his home in Hamilton’s Rosedale—Ernest returned from war in 1945, suffering poor health until his death at age 34 in the old Gage Ave military hospital.
I hope he found some joy after the war.
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Last week's late bloom now nestled under a deep snow drift. I was lulled by October's charms into thinking jacket weather would last. Take care out on the roads, good people. #FlowerReport
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Reading reccs for remembrance--in part--of WW I and II.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A hard read, and I don't know how I would have responded were I to have been in the audience. Still fresh and raw being published five years after the conviction.
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ramble: Leeds & Grenville
#WindowsOnWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Plumage.
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Sending out to a friend, a lifelong overthinker and doer, who is trying to embrace calm.
But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
SOS to #FlowerReport community and beyond.
Besides chicken wire, orange peels, light, and mothballs, any proven tips for dealing with 🦨

The garden has suffered mightily under this creature.
November 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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31/10/25 - nocturn
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Momento Mori: final day for #31daysofgraves. A new stone went in beside Mom's, with the last person to be interred there having my birthday. If nothing else, cemetery rambles are its own momento mori; we will all be carried off, one day, so enjoy the here and now. Union Burying Ground, Burlington.
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
New dress from Kitsch'n Swell, Montreal. Deep pockets for the win.
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Out gathering grapes for the wine press. Day 30: colour for #31daysofgraves Immaculate Conception, Edmundston.
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Returning Empties, Gerrard St. East, Toronto, 1981

#photography
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
October 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
And fished together for mackerel of an evening.
Fred is a herring fisher, still. #31daysofgraves ~occupation~
Seaview, Pictou County.
October 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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💔
Goodbye to her. She was wonderful.
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Troubled by tariffs(aren't we all). W.E. Sanford--iron, wool, ready to wear, and politics. Drowned at Lake Rosseau, ON in 1899. Column for day 28. #31daysofgraves
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The McEachrens take the long and winding road.
#31daysofgraves ~tree~
October 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.
October 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Hiding in plain sight. Day 26: figure #31daysofgraves
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Late season #FlowerReport
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Down the alley.
October 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM