Good morning EM! I got up at 4:30 am est and have already had my first nap. Crab fishermen have just arrived in port. We need to be in shape for the first snowcrabfest of the season! Photo is from last year.

Day 5: Emily Carr, Big Raven, 1931
Vancouver Art Gallery
#ArtIsLife

Day 4 of art that I love. This painting by American artist Georgia O’Keeffe represents the mountains that rise sharply on the shores of the Gaspé Peninsula in Québec (1932). #ArtIsLife

With sincere apologies to the creative person who came up with this. I wish I could identify you and give you credit.

Mary Pratt, Canadian artist, 1935-2018

Lauren Harris, Icebergs, 1930

Claude Monet: Waterloo Bridge, the sun in a fog, National Gallery of Canada, 1903

Team Homan of Canada has won the World Women’s Curling Championship in South Korea!🇨🇦❤️

I’ve sent an email. Here’s the text in case you are interested.

Here is a pix of my email text

This Brian Snyder of Reuters photo makes me realize that “pos” is too nice a term to describe Trump and Vance during their “diplomatic” encounter with Zelenskyy today. A pox on both of them (w/o vaccine).

My once-beloved CBC has lost its way, can justify anything. The french counterpart, Radio-Canada, resists this approach & is still my favourite. Please consider what @rosalynroy.bsky.social asks: don’t tune in to Cross Country Check-up this afternoon. Watch Scotties curling on TSN.

Good morning, this sums it up for me today:
Let’s not give up.

Sunrise teasing the art wall in my house at 7:15.

It’s late to say good morning, so hello will do for me. I’d love a follow back. Here’s Cashew.

Corporal William (Billy) Brabant, casualty in the Viet Nam war in October 1968. I sang the Requiem Mass at his funeral in Clayton, N.Y. I have never forgotten him.