Summertime and the dinner on the deck is yellow!  And wonderful!
Hazel, at the start of the 5km race for Mississauga Marathon w/e: one of Canada’s venerable political leaders!
I marvel at the 10 cm of soil developed over 55 years of lawn-growing…
1771—where I grew up. We cut the oak tree in the back yard 4 winters in a row with our skates before it took off…
‘WS’ (my father, who built the first iteration) would care about the quality of the personal commitments inside…
Maurice Duruflé Requiem on the radio—appropriate music while I contemplate my family graves…
Requiem. Saddest: Mother (Margaret) who suffered Alzheimers & John who didn't survive severe Trisomy 21…
…sorry,@AnnieBeeKnits… Knitting pun follows: Aunt ‘Pie’ & bag w “Keep calm and carry yarn” (Note gorgeous shawl!)
Happy Mothers’ Day in Ottawa!
Mother’s Day snow on rafts of wild marjoram in my lawn in #Orangeville… Even the dandelion is puckered up!
Mother’s Day snow on rhubarb in #Orangeville…
fancy Fiskers weeder broke; newer even flimsier. Got low-tech dandelion puller @ Home Hardware. Lawn less yellow…
Creeping dog vomit slime mold (Fuligo septica) growing in my composter!
My final choice of #moment photo for @nytimes: (and I eat what grows in my lawn!)
My #moment photo for @nytimes …maybe… I haven't looked at my others—all dandelions…
#Morris May Morning in Toronto:  #OrangePeelMorris dancing Stephenson’s Rocket in Dufferin Grove Park
May Morn: High Park Toronto w 8 #Morris sides, incl #OrangePeelMorris. The great Parky leading Padstow May Song
Lilacs blooming in April in Dundas Ontario—this is very very early… #phenology
A fine morning helping Grant feed his baby raccoons. They're quite the teaching tool!
Wonderful sculpted sugar maple bark along Broadway in #Orangeville. Surely the wood is bird’s-eye underneath?
Nice pattern! (…what is it?…)
Put new calf-skin heads on #OrangePeelMorris bass drum today. A bit of a kludge job but nice soft thuddy tone!
After 18 yrs singing w Achill Choral Society, sat in audience for first time (laryngitis…)—wonderful sounds!
In park to clean garbage & celebrate community play space: this is what makes #Orangeville a strong community!

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husband, father, retired outdoor education teacher, botanist, Type 2 Diabetes, ... not quite the angel taborer

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