long silences
. .....sometimes they are quite potent, those long empty silences. in this case, i've been meaning to place some updates here for some time. i'm just headed off to the Wells Winter Carnival - it's the most perfect bluebird sunny day for it. but i'll make a public promise to put some photos up this week of my fall tour in the yukon. hope it's a sunny day all round yael Read More »
A good stitch gone indeed
My new record, Good Stitch Gone, was released on Friday June 5th in Victoria. Since the album was recorded in that city, during this past winter, it seemed only fitting to introduce it there first. The title reflects a number of themes. A good stitch gone, refers to a long distance traveled. That is the physical expanse of my own travels, and the vastly diverging spaces I like to inhabit musically. 'Stitch' of course, is also a seam: a seam that binds differing parts of our lives together, and a seam that divides two sides of a road, patching… Read More »
chasing spring
the eyes get bright and hungry.
new lush greens everywhere. oh yes, it's spring.
back home for a few days, we had an atypicall wells spring party. granted, it was on the shadier side of the valley, where the full days' sun hasnt quite got to work yet. the snow is still piled high (it was still chest-high, two weeks ago). so the fire pit was dug out in the back yard, and we had a fantastic cariboo do in the cool spring air, nestled in a circle of snow. how's that to welcome… Read More »
Penelope's Dinner
Eat Out - but maybe not on the full moon
new town, new edible options. i like eating out. new combinations of lovely foods. somebody else cooking. i've only eaten out at restaurants a couple of times in past two weeks. but what are the chances that both times, at totally different restaurants, under utterly different circumstances, that each of my orders never reaches the kitchen. that's two for two - i'm batting a hundred (am i?).
somewhere between my desire for a meal out, and the kitchen's… Read More »
Expanding Horizons
December already?
no really, i've been catching myself asking the question lately: where did the fall rush off to? there's no denying now that winter is actually here: the mercury has dropped to well below -10C and the stars cut clearer through that cold thing air, i've got holiday plans fast approaching, and i'm finding myself accidentally writing '2009' in the columns of my notes to self. already.
but as i think back to the past few months it's been a great autumn, full of things i couldn't quite have expected.… Read More »
reflections from your living room
wednesday morning. christina is sleeping in but i woke up with the sound of prairie wind dancing around this house, shaking the treetops, waving the gold grasses of last year. we're in Onanole on the southern edge of Riding Mountain Park. our lovely hostess – which we kept up long past her bedtime last night, chatting – has gone to work, and left us to rest and relax in her home: porridge on the stove, note on the… Read More »
Lillian's Tea in Crystal City, Manitoba
oops, a bug. an ant perhaps.
ok then, here's a photo:
manitoba routes
i've been meaning to get here all week and write up a storm of all the things we've been up to: driving to penticton, calgary, the farm in eston, saskatoon, april snowstorms, manitoba. oh so much of manitoba!
christina an i have been doing house concerts in manitoba all week. a few in winnipeg, but mostly in rural areas south of the #1, and south of portage la prairie. the shows have been wonderful, the audiences have been gracious and lovely, and our hosts have been fabulous. what a great journey. one of the woman from our… Read More »
yoga and creative process
Last weekend I had the great fortune of participating in a weekend long yoga workshop. It's the first chance that I have spent several days in a row just focused on practice. It was exactly what I needed but didn't know I needed. When i managed to get my brain and body to sit down together, I realised how much I'd had on my mind of late and I realized that stepping… Read More »
an introduction
i've wanted to do this for a while, but for one reason or another it hasnt worked out. at least not yet. i've wanted to keep a little online journal of my travels and such: road stories, veggie oil truck details, superb meals in random canadian towns, little notes about creative things i am working one, etc... but alas i am a fantastic procrastinator and i avoided the possible means at my disposal. so finally, with this new site i have the opportunity to add my voice to the stories collecting in this expanding web.
i want… Read More »