Saturday 22 January 2022

Self-Portrait at Fifty-Five

If I'm still around, I'll be fifty-six later this year, GOD willing 🙏

Wanted to change my profile picture, but I don't take selfies

So I put on my favourite thirty-two-year-old leather bomber jacket

Yes, there's a white t-shirt underneath


 
16"x20" oil painting on canvas


Saturday 15 January 2022

Listening to Jethro Tull and painting MacLellan Inn, Codroy Valley, Newfoundland

Twelve years ago on our first road trip to Newfoundland ...

On our return, we had to stay in the Codroy Valley when our ferry was delayed by several hours.

We'd never stayed in a bed and breakfast place ever before, anywhere

And this was our first experience ever!

 
Warm Sporran by Jethro Tull from their 1979 album Stormwatch


We experienced some of the best hospitality in the Western world, right here

Newfoundland is a special place for its landscape, history, people, food and culture

We've met some of the friendliest, and nicest people in Canada, in Newfoundland!


16"x20" oil painting on canvas

Saturday 1 January 2022

A view of The Three Sisters from the Bow River in Canmore in the Canadian Rockies

If you have been to Canmore in the Canadian Rockies, you may have seen The Three Sisters.

Individually, the three mountain peaks are referred to as Big Sister, Middle Sister and Little Sister

The First Nations Stoney-Nakoda (Rocky Mountain Sioux) 

refer to these mountain peaks as The Three Sisters

 

This is a view of the Three Sisters on a summer afternoon from the Bow River in Canmore