A Golden Stream

"Are you suggesting that Coconuts migrate ?"

2011-12-03T15:55:00.001-05:00

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” ~Kurt Vonnegut

"Let's not go there, it is a rather silly place.."

2011-11-09T15:07:00.000-05:00

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination".~Henry David Thoreau

"......'ERE, HE SAYS HE'S NOT DEAD YET !"

2011-10-30T15:05:00.000-04:00

Do not pass by my epitaph, traveler.
But having stopped, listen and learn, then go your way.
There is no boat in Hades, no ferryman Charon,
No caretaker Aiakos, no dog Cerberus.
All we who are dead below
Have become bones and ashes, but nothing else.
I have spoken to you honestly, go on, traveler,
Lest even while dead I seem loquacious to you.
- Roman Tombstone

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity"- Thomas Moore

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"~ Edgar Allan Poe

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other
of us has to go". ~Oscar Wilde

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it".- Mark Twain

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter".- Winston Churchill

And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain,
My friends, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
- Paul Anka

"I sentence you to be hung by the neck, until you cheer up"

2011-10-25T16:44:00.000-04:00

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top". - Virginia Woolf

"Sorry, this is 'Being hit on the head lessons'"

2011-10-22T12:58:00.001-04:00

"The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career".- Albert Einstein

"It's tattoo'd on the back of the neck"

2011-10-18T11:35:00.000-04:00

"We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese !"

2011-10-18T11:16:00.004-04:00

"Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness". ~ Lawrence Freeman

"I told you not to say mattress to Mr Lambert ! Now I have to get in the fish tank and sing !"

2011-10-11T21:36:00.001-04:00

"Our greatest glory lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."~ Confucius

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."~Steven Wright

"My hovercraft is full of eels"

2011-09-30T10:03:00.002-04:00

"Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority" ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Notice that they do not so much fly, as plummet"

2011-09-27T19:55:00.001-04:00

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self" - Aldous Huxley

"....all the others were too flat"

2011-09-26T14:18:00.002-04:00

"There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past" ~George Carlin

Last Train to Notlob

2011-09-10T18:42:00.005-04:00

"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why"~Kurt Vonnegut

"Does she like candid photography, he asked knowingly ?"

2011-09-08T15:20:00.001-04:00

"You are not alone. We are all the same, all in this fragile skin, suffering the ugliness of simply being human, all prey to the same mortal dreads." ~HARLAN ELLISON

Kitchener Blues Festival ~King St Sat aft.

2011-08-14T20:06:00.010-04:00

I made it ! After having to push the van to get it started, cope with a dead cell phone, and a dead camera battery, I now stand in front of "Budds" - time to relax and enjoy some great music
The Tribute to the Last Waltz was awesome friday night, due in no small part to Daves's friend Rob Gusevs who OWNED the stage on Hammond Organ, and Paul James did a fantastic job of mimicking Bob Dylan. We caught a bit of Bill Durst beforehand in the BIA tent, where a dancing kid stole the show - even did the James Brown 'fake-out' move. Coop really liked Sean Pinchin & Dylan Wickens
First up Sat - a Canadian Folk & Blues institution- Ken Whitely

It's JEFF & THERESA hoping to get into Johnny Winter

On the main stage - Raoul & the Big Time -another hammond organ player, seems to be the theme this year
In the park - Harper & the Midwest Kind, bluesing out on ......Didgeridoo ?

Mainstage and King St Sat afternoon

2011-08-14T19:33:00.012-04:00

....and more strolling of the concourse..............................................
Always such a joy running into Eddy Law.....Mainstage had Pat Travers, we had to flip a coin over him or Johnny Winter......we lost

wait........WHAT ?
Since even the cranky old guy from the TD bank wasn't groovin' on Pat Travers, we bolted, and ran into a "Budd" from Dorkville, Phil ( he be no shill, no pill, so chill )
Tried to catch the Tom Waits tribute, but only got to hear the last two songs from the door

but............... with a little of the MoiHaHa charm.....

The F Holes in the Boathouse Sat

2011-08-14T16:52:00.006-04:00

Finally, a chance to sit down and knock backa few quick brews.............
The F Holes are from Winnipeg, and TEAR it UP !! Blew the walls out with their countrypunkblues at the Boathouse Club

Kickin!! These guys are the new "ones to watch "

Edgar Winter in the park Sat night

2011-08-14T15:42:00.007-04:00

This was THE hot ticket for the festival - the V.I.P. section filled up right away, instead of being "fashionably late". We got here too late for seats, I wound up squeezing up next to a tent pole, which I used as a tripod to steady the camera for zoom shots.....& growling at any security who tried to move me

Edgar Winter still has it -always puts out a high-energy show, consummate showman, he even played "Jive Jive Jive" from his White Trash band

"Walkin' widdershins"

2011-08-14T15:33:00.003-04:00

I was madly snapping away in every direction, so there were bound to be some fuzzy shots - here's some of the cool ones

"...c'mon it's this way......"

Jimmie Vaughn mainstage Sat night

2011-08-14T15:13:00.010-04:00

One of the most well-behaved and appreciative audiences I've ever seen !

Severely dragging our tails by now, we still had to catch at least some of the main show;
Jimmie Vaughn & The Tilt-A-Whirl Band

And it's all FREE !
http://www.kitchenerbluesfestival.com/

SUMMARIZING PROUST

2011-07-27T11:47:00.004-04:00

"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess".~James Thurber

TUDOR EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

2011-07-06T22:19:00.004-04:00

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better".
Martin Luther King, Jr.

THE FISH-SLAPPING DANCE

2011-07-06T22:12:00.002-04:00

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong".~Buckminster Fuller

Pining for the Fields

2011-01-09T16:01:00.003-05:00

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone". ~Marilyn Monroe

A Territorial Dispute

2011-01-09T15:53:00.002-05:00

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum". ~ Havelock Ellis

Angry Sky

2010-10-29T19:44:00.003-04:00

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”-John Wooden

Consumption

2010-10-29T19:37:00.003-04:00

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact." ~ Sartre

Igor's Last Gasp

2010-10-01T22:42:00.005-04:00

"We have managed to eradicate human contemplation & replace it with the want to constantly amuse ourselves in short bursts." Edgar Allan Poe

Blended Backyards

2010-10-01T22:35:00.006-04:00

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world." ~George Santayana

Totenbleich

2009-07-27T20:53:00.001-04:00

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."~Thomas Szasz

Attitudinized

2009-07-27T20:48:00.001-04:00

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."~Blaise Pascal

reverberate

2009-07-27T14:02:00.001-04:00

"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."~Robertson Davies

Indomitable

2009-07-22T23:00:00.001-04:00

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."~George Jackson

estranged

2009-07-22T22:53:00.001-04:00

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'~Frederick L Collins

Lionized

2009-07-20T13:43:00.001-04:00

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."~Aldous Huxley

White Satin

2009-07-18T21:21:00.001-04:00

"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
- Samuel Goldwyn

Schism

2009-07-18T21:17:00.001-04:00

"If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work."~John Alejandro King

Interstice

2009-07-18T21:14:00.001-04:00

"No moral system can rest solely on authority."~ A.J.Ayer

Perplexity

2009-07-16T10:48:00.001-04:00

"Confusion is always the most honest response." - Marty Indik

The Armoury Tower

2009-07-14T12:52:00.002-04:00

"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."
- A. J. Liebling

McGog's Koi Pond

2009-07-14T12:45:00.001-04:00

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand."
- Putt's Law

Edith's Garden

2009-07-14T12:41:00.001-04:00

"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."~Potter Stewart

A Crunchy Abridgement

2009-07-11T22:10:00.002-04:00

"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."~Edwin Land

Take me to the Bridge

2009-07-11T22:04:00.003-04:00

"Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal"~Albert Einstein

Roadside Attraction

2009-07-10T15:41:00.001-04:00

"If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging."~Joe Martin

Mr Crunchy's Koi Pond

2009-07-10T15:36:00.002-04:00

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Canyon

2009-07-08T22:09:00.001-04:00

"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."~David Brinkley

Red

2009-07-08T22:01:00.001-04:00

"If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me." ~Larry Flynt

The BIG Idea

2009-07-07T23:31:00.002-04:00

A diptych collaboration with Lucidgypsy - her photo "The Realization__Inspiration" is on the bottom

Tiger-by-night

2009-07-07T23:27:00.002-04:00

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."~Sir Winston Churchill

Transmitted

2009-07-05T11:59:00.002-04:00

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor." ~ Robert Frost

Djang

2009-07-02T20:53:00.002-04:00

The creative energy by which the world was formed, Djang is literally as old as the hills. The dreamtime stories tell how spirit beings metamorphosed into things which remain in the landscape - held in a particular tree or rock, for instance, this power might be released by a word or touch to instil strength or confer cunning.

Trees with personalities #4

2009-07-02T20:42:00.003-04:00

"dali"
"phantom of the opera"
"pavarotti"
"picasso"

Tiger Lilies

2009-06-30T19:28:00.002-04:00

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking." ~John Maynard Keynes

Ekistical

2009-06-30T19:21:00.002-04:00

ekistical; adj. about the study of the ecology of human beings in settlements and communities

The Root Of Ra

2009-06-29T20:50:00.001-04:00

"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day."
- John A. Wheeler

Upheaval

2009-06-27T17:23:00.002-04:00

Bertrand Russell:
"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."

The Edge Of Night

2009-06-27T17:19:00.001-04:00

"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."
~ Stanislaus I of Poland

Cool Blue Mood

2009-06-26T13:01:00.003-04:00

"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you" ~Samuel Johnson

Illusory

2009-06-24T20:35:00.001-04:00

A. A. Milne:
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Trees With Personalities #3

2009-06-24T20:17:00.005-04:00

Catch Me If I Fall
Sprawl
Stretch
The Troll's Crown
"Reality is something you rise above" ~Liza Minnelli

The Tenement Years

2009-06-21T11:06:00.004-04:00

"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors."
- William Ralph Inge

Why people dress differently

2009-06-20T19:07:00.008-04:00

In Andean mythology, the creator god VIRACOCHA made all the different people out of clay, and then painted on the garments each group were to wear. Each was given it's own language, songs and foods, even hairstyles. He then put them underground to make their way to the various regions to which he had assigned them - the caves, lakes and mountains from which they re-emerged into the light would subsequently be worshipped as holy places. The first generation was in due course turned into stone, also becoming objects of reverence.

Another diptych collaboration with gloriagypsy

Mrs Bag's garden

2009-06-20T11:03:00.003-04:00

"It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt."
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Rust

2009-06-18T23:33:00.002-04:00

Another in the diptych collaboration series, this uses Mizcuzi's photo "Old Times" on the right

Spectre

2009-06-18T23:28:00.002-04:00

"When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Cailleach Bheur

2009-06-18T01:54:00.003-04:00

In Irish and Scottish myth, features of the landscape were often said to owe their existence to a land goddess, the Cailleach Bheur, who took the form of a giant hag.
Another in the diptych collaboration series, the photo on the top is gloriagypsy's "Winter Is Still Here"

Monochrome Trees

2009-06-18T01:32:00.000-04:00

"Emanate"

"Cygnet"
"Grimace"
"Straggle"

"Toes"

Stratified

2009-06-17T10:56:00.000-04:00

This is a Diptych collaboration with mizcuzi
Her photo "ZIM" is on top

In The Garden

2009-06-17T10:31:00.000-04:00

Carl Jung:
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

Pirouette

2009-06-16T14:36:00.001-04:00

"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!"
~Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Pink Morning

2009-06-16T14:26:00.000-04:00

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world". ~Blaise Pascal

Woodland Droll

2009-06-15T17:13:00.000-04:00

"The future will be better tomorrow." - Dan Quayle

Trees with personalities #2

2009-06-15T17:05:00.000-04:00

"Oh you're too much!"
"f I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?
~ John Lancaster Spalding

Stoned sky

2009-06-14T16:17:00.000-04:00

Part of the Diptych collaboration series with gloriagypsy
The picture on top, "Circle Of Stones" is hers

Fingers 1&3

2009-06-14T16:12:00.001-04:00

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
- Steven Wright

Non-Conformist

2009-06-13T20:25:00.000-04:00

"Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?"
- James Thurber

This is a diptych collaboration with gloriagypsy using her photograph "BANNISTER"

Trees with Personalities

2009-06-13T15:30:00.000-04:00

"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg