Oct. 26 The turkeys didn’t notice me on the porch and decided to sneak across the lawn from the sisters, the apple trees by the barn, to the wise witch, also an apple tree. Almost every apple on the sisters was eaten. The turkeys and even a deer or two ate every one that fell,…

 Oct. 12 October: Thanksgiving. It was usually the last time we would go to the Hideaway, for the season. If we were lucky we went up Friday night, arriving in the dark, driving along the long, up-and-down, dirt road in from #6 to the coast, to be ferried across the bay to the cottage, in…

 Sept. 26 After the rain, suddenly there seems to be more colour in the trees. Rain’s baby is born! A beautiful boy with red hair, like his father, he is perfect! I had the privilege and honour of being with them for the birth. Rain was amazing, and she and the baby are doing well….

aug. 30 in the ER we sit against the walls like refugees  who have reached the other side come in from the pain  across the roads and the city to seek help triaged into curtained cells segregated we wait the border guards, doctors and nurses, interrogate and run tests, draw blood and maybe, give medicine we…

sept. 21 september, equinox, full moon, Rain’s baby is coming any day now. “if you listen you can hear the waterfall in the blue jay call / and you search to glimpse wings in the leaves”  (from angels and mustard seeds, my – see footnote *** ) ***** The Alexander teacher says “let your feet…

 August 27 From the porch at #48. Mumma is in hospital.  I have struggled with this back pain for five weeks, and in spite of three previous ER (hospital emergency department) visits and a doctor visit, I still have no diagnosis and until tonight no relief from the pain. But tonight I have been admitted…

 August 9 We have come home to Toronto to get Mumma taken care of. We drove in on Saturday; 700 kilometres: K did most of the driving; traffic was light and uneventful. I feel so relieved to be here, in the safety of my own home, with Tamar and Nick to look after us. The…

 August 1 Well, not the camp road, the apple sisters and the mosaics, just the health challenges have been weird, and maddening! ***** I like this camp road more each day. Now, in the middle of summer, it is calm, with filtered sunlight and a soft-colour palette of last year’s brown leaves underfoot and this…

july 28 This is not a lost hat, though wouldn’t it be spectacular! Today’s bouquet is proving very popular: Then: “That is one tiny hummingbird!”, I thought. But it’s not a bird, it’s a moth! The hummingbird moth. I saw one once in Dorset, UK, surreal then, and now. It is a sign … ……

 July 27 Is this thing I have made something that has been made before? A hummingbird bouquet. I woke last Thursday in terrible pain and nauseous, still in the throes of my covid vaccine reaction. My hip had been getting progressively more painful for several days, somehow, I thought, related to the vaccine reaction, and…