Relaxing on a snowshoe trip, Sibley Creek trail.
What we did on our winter vacation...
My other blog
A Good Word to Begin With...
From right here in Thunder Bay and area...
- Kabob Village, Lebanese and Middle Eastern food
- 3 Mangoes Thai/Viet/Chinese Restaurant
- Merla Mae Ice Cream (and burgers)
- The North Shore Woman, Taina Maki-Chahal
- Nolalu Eco Centre itself!
- Nolalu Eco Centre blog
- Unseen Thunder Bay
- Brent Linton, photographer
- Northern Woman's Bookstore
- Shy-Anne Hovorka, Aboriginal singer-songwriter
- Superior Scribes
- The Fish Shop--fresh from Lake Superior
- The Great Northwest Coffee Company
- Thunder Bay Country Market
- Thunder Bay Writers
Ex Libris
Where you're hailing from...
Doorways to other worlds
- Anna Deaveare Smith Works--a good idea
- When Love Comes to Town:RJ's blog
- Dianne DeMott's fab blog, Cumulus
- Rachel Barenblat
- Steve's Night Sea Journey
- Philomena, of Cornwall (aka Blue-eyed Ennis)
- Tom Montag, the Middlewesterner
- Trevor Herriot, Prairie protector
- Hope
- The Simple Way: Radical Faith
- Steve the Ragarambler, now A Bubble off Square
- Renee's new home
- Marja-Leena, artist and seer
- MJD
- Tom Montag, the Middlewesterner
Artists, visual and otherwise...
- Today's Inspiration
- The beautiful airplane art of Shigeo Koike
- Charles de Lint
- Jason DeCaires Taylor
- Eric Zener
- Martin Carthy
- G.Willow WIlson, writer
- Tim Lowly
- Michael Palin
- John Sayles
- David Strathairn
- Arthur Slade
- Book Design Review (BDR)
- Tomson Highway
- The Art Department
- Illustration 101
- Chaim Potok
- Alanna Marohnic
- Wendy McDougall
- Joyce Tenneson
- Duncan Weller
Poets and poetry
Listening to, watching, reading, experiencing...
- New Hymn, James Taylor, lyric by Reynolds Price
- Absolutely!--U2 and a gospel choir rocking I Still Haven't Found
- Baba O'Riley, by The Who
- Bless the Lord my Soul, sung by the magnificent Lynne Thigpen
- Chumbawumba goes Tubthumping!
- Gaudete--sung by Steeleye Span
- Dancing Bear,--The Mamas and Papas
- Eric Burdon--Anything
- Everly Brothers, Chet Atkins, Mark Knopfler--Why Worry
- Everly Brothers--On the Wings of a Nightingale
- Five Blind Boys of Mississippi--Save Me a Seat (and Rock the House)
- I Can See Clearly Now, sung by Jimmy Cliff
- I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself, sung by Dusty Springfield
- If Three Dog Night can't get into heaven who can...?
- It never grows old: Pete Townshend and Baba O'Riley
- Judy Collins--Will Ye Go Lassie
- Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso, by Ennio Morricone
- Maestro Mississippi John Hurt--Coffee Blues
- Maestro Mississippi John Hurt--Payday
- Maestro Mississippi John Hurt--Since I Laid my Burden Down (ignore the visuals)
- Maestro Mississippi John Hurt--You Got to Walk that Lonesome Valley
- Monty Python's Very Own Youtube Channel, or It's Better to Release Your Own Quality Work, Than to Have Unprincipled Idiots Release Poor Quality Versions
- Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy--Hoochie Coochie Man
- No Salt on her Tail, by the Mamas and Papas
- On the Turning Away, by Pink Floyd
- Richard and Mimi Farina--Bold Marauder (yes, that's Pete Seeger in the background)
- Roger McGuinn sings May the Road Rise to Meet You
- Sinead O'Connor and the Chieftains: Foggy Foggy Dew
- The Doors--Touch Me
- The McGarrigle family--Hard Times (from Canada's National Treasures, Kate and Anna)
- The Strange World of Parry Gripp
- Twilite Sucks--I'll Never be an EMO Vampire...
- Worthless, by Van Dyke Parks, from The Brave Little Toaster
- Yusuf Islam (with Peter Gabriel) Wild World a capella + percussion--magic
Instruments, well OK, guitars...
Real Music and Real Musicians
- Rise Above, by Oysterband
- True Companion Marc Cohn
- Something Cool, sung by June Christy
- Kate Bush--Women of Ireland
- Cat Stevens Morning Has Broken Live
- Pretty Saro, sung by Iris Dement, from Songcatcher
- U2 One Tree Hill
- The Weaver and the Factory Maid by Steeleye Span
- Kate Bush
- Days of Heaven--Ennio Morricone
- Pete Townshend--Behind Blue Eys, haunting acoustic version
- By My Side, from Godspell
- The Helsinki Complaints Choir
- Roger McGuinn has a blog, though spouse Camilla writes most of it...
- The Rock Bottom remainders--Write on...
- The Mediaeval Baebes
- Chumbawamba, when they're not Tub-thumping
- June Tabor
- Oysterband oy!
- Jim Croegaert
- Maddy Prior
- David Abramsky
- Bob Franke
- Steve Bell and Signpost Music
See ya at the pictures...
- Ballad of Little Jo, The (USA 1993)
- Cast Away (USA 2000)
- Crossing Delancey (USA 1988)
- Days of Heaven (USA 1977)
- Forbidden Planet (USA, 1956)
- Galaxy Quest (USA, 1999)
- Good Will Hunting (USA 1997)
- I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (Canada, 1987)
- Ice Cold in Alex (UK, 1958)
- Japanese Story (Australia, 2003)
- Jesus de Montreal (Canada 1989)
- Lost in Translation (USA, 2003)
- Me and Orson Welles (UK, 2008)
- Microcosmos (France, 1996)
- Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (France, 2003)
- Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
- Nowhere in Africa (Germany, 2001)
- Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Italy, 1989)
- O Brother, Where Art thou? (USA 2000)
- Persepolis (France, 2007)
- Random Harvest (UK 1942)
- Scrooge (UK 1951) (The black and white original is the definitive version
- Shakespeare in Love (UK 1998)
- Snow Cake (Canada, UK 2006)
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Korea, 2003)
- The Brave Little Toaster (USA 1987)
- The Horse's Mouth (England, 1958)
- The Ladykillers (UK 1955)
- The Quiet Earth (New Zealand, 1985)
- The Right Stuff (USA 1983)
- The Shootist (USA 1976)
- Treasure Planet (USA 2002)
- Trip to Bountiful (USA 1983)
- Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (UK 2005)
- Whale Rider (New Zealand 2002)
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (USA 1957)
- Wings of Desire (Germany, 1987)
See ya in the funny papers!
It's Not Easy Being Green
Some other nifty links
- Shorpy--a century photoblog of ordinary life
- Dr. Who
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Bart Ehrman: an antidote to blind faith
- Dava Sobel
- Drury Lane Bookstore, Grand Marais, Minnesota
- First Church of Christ, Congregational, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
- Hymers Fall Fair--the real thing
- Image Journal
- Kenzaburo Oe--a National Treasure of Japan (IMO)
- McNally Robinson: if we must have big box book stores, let them be as nice as these...
- Why Everyone Should Have Mojakka at Least Once
- Autogyro--the pre-helicopter
I'm a union man
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5 comments:
How totally awesome and wonderful for you both! Blessings abound and thanks for the Ontario Tourist Board material... there IS a way to get us closer!
Love,
J
I loved these photos!
looks like a snowy swell time you had!
What a beautiful picture Peter! I love it! Clara
Thanks, Clara! Now I know who "Anonymous" is! :)
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