The baby boom generation is contemplating its mortality. Or at least I find I am thinking about death a lot lately. Not in a morbid fashion, but it does seem that every day when I read the newspaper I read about what seems to me to be an untimely death. When I scan the obituaries […]
Sitting waiting for the vet to look at a sick cat at one o’clock in the morning gave me plenty of time to think. Expecting bad news, my mind turned to some other bad news that has hit Canada recently, something more serious than our seemingly unending winter. Canada is about to have a national […]
This was going to be yesterday’s post, but then Marshall took a turn for the worse. It was written between vet visits, before I knew that his treatment was going to cost a couple of thousand dollars. The sign in the photo I snapped at 2 a.m. Monday says it all: “Financing Available Here.” If […]
9:20 a.m. Tuesday March 17. The phone rings. It is our usual veterinary clinic calling. They weren’t open at midnight yesterday, but they had been faxed the details by the emergency service we used. “How is Marshall?” I give an update. They don’t like what I am saying. “You can’t wait until we open at […]
“Dad wake up, Marshall is sick.” Marshall is the younger of our two cats, the orange tabby. I looked at the clock. 11:42 p.m. I had had maybe an hour of sleep. Why did this have to happen when Vivian is away? The cats are her problem. I prefer not to be woken unnecessarily, I’m […]
In recent days I have found that I am in the mood to post pictures here, a break from my sometimes lengthy posts. I so have a few of those I want to get to, but pictures are what you are going to get again today. Consider each one worth the proverbial thousand words. We […]
I have never been to the Canadian Railway Museum. Visiting York last summer and seeing what Britain’s national railway museum has to offer has caused me to think that maybe I should see what its Canadian counterpart is like. After all, the railway played an important role in building the Canadian nation and remains an […]
Just a few pictures to close off our tour of Istanbul by night. After spending three days in the city I couldn’t decide if I liked it more than Rome – and if not then it is a close second when it comes to favourite European cities!
I wrote about my feelings regarding the Hagia Sophia, the church converted to a mosque and then to a museum in a series of posts about a month ago. I just realized that the photos I posted were all from the interior. It really is a beautiful building architecturally also, especially at night, so I […]
Just a few photos taken around the Blue Mosque. Today I’ll let the pictures do the talking.
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