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disappearing Ontario landscapes, cinq à sept, heritage, books, theatre, garden/flower report, kitchen chronicles, gallimaufry counter-programming Look for the big red raincoat. Elsewhere: IG harmony_in_brown_and_grey

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black and white close-up of a stone angel, head bowed, carrying a bouquet; its wings form a halo of sorts

black and white close-up of a stone angel, head bowed, carrying a bouquet; its wings form a halo of sorts

Rain date with an angel.
#31daysofgraves

07.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 25    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A light-grey headstone reading Northway. A palm frond is carved lower left on the diagonal.

A light-grey headstone reading Northway. A palm frond is carved lower left on the diagonal.

Gender neutral.
#31daysofgraves

06.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Pouring on the rarebit in DREAM OF A RAREBIT FIEND (1906), live action adaptation of the Winsor McCay comic.

The chafing dish cheese sauce was wildly popular but director Edwin S Porter's decision to feature multiple beer bottles in shot gives added context to our hero's bizarre dreams.

05.10.2025 14:17 — 👍 109    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 1
A granite headstone for Birks family; an overcast afternoon; a robin sits atop the stone; the bird is drenched from the steady drizzling rain; behind the stone, wildflowers form a hedgerow; a telegraph pole and wires, and fields are in the distance.

A granite headstone for Birks family; an overcast afternoon; a robin sits atop the stone; the bird is drenched from the steady drizzling rain; behind the stone, wildflowers form a hedgerow; a telegraph pole and wires, and fields are in the distance.

Portent.
#31daysofgraves

05.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
playbill for King Gilgamesh; two men sing and dance on a stage; between them, a woman plays the violin

playbill for King Gilgamesh; two men sing and dance on a stage; between them, a woman plays the violin

Playbill for The Welkin. Fourteen women are shown; one holds a noose.

Playbill for The Welkin. Fourteen women are shown; one holds a noose.

brothers & sisters
💔👏

05.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Takoyak and miso soup.

Takoyak and miso soup.

A stem glass of lavender sake with table accoutrements.

A stem glass of lavender sake with table accoutrements.

Taking a page from Pepys--minus the carriage and wine.
A sticky 30° leaving-it-to-the-last-minute two-play day. Fortifications sought: lavender sake, described as being coddled in plum, and polpo in takoyak form. Cheers, good people.

04.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A remembrance stone set flat in the lawn.
Hommage à un brave soldat de la guerre 1914-1919.
Bravo Henry Joly, tu as repondu a l'appel.

A remembrance stone set flat in the lawn. Hommage à un brave soldat de la guerre 1914-1919. Bravo Henry Joly, tu as repondu a l'appel.

Canadian Veterans Affairs memorial headstone for Henry Joly, soldier. 
14th Jan 1922.

Canadian Veterans Affairs memorial headstone for Henry Joly, soldier. 14th Jan 1922.

St.Alphonse,ON.
Bravo, Henry Joly.
Languages for #31daysofgraves

04.10.2025 12:56 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🎧 Listening in Full Dimension – Part 13 of my ‘Spiorad aird nam Murchan’ series.

Ambisonic fieldwork in Ardnamurchan reveals the emotional architecture of sound.

🖋 “These recordings are emotional landscapes… portals to presence.”

🔗 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/9/...

#DeepListening

03.10.2025 12:24 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
An ornamental stone approximately 15 foot tomb set into a hillside. Gardens of shrubbery and evergreens flank the structure.

An ornamental stone approximately 15 foot tomb set into a hillside. Gardens of shrubbery and evergreens flank the structure.

Spring ramble at Hamilton Cemetery(established 1850).
#31daysofgraves Day 3: tomb

03.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
A cluster of tall bald cypress trees rising from calm water on a foggy morning. Muted greens and browns against a white sky make up the palette. Mirrored forms of trees and shoreline interact with the negative space of sky and its reflection.

A cluster of tall bald cypress trees rising from calm water on a foggy morning. Muted greens and browns against a white sky make up the palette. Mirrored forms of trees and shoreline interact with the negative space of sky and its reflection.

The muse of music has shown up lately, so I'm a bit less present, but appreciation for you folks and what you do has not waned.

Have a lovely Friday. 😉

#photography #NaturePhotography #landscape

03.10.2025 12:59 — 👍 102    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 0

I think often of her Miss Scofield.

03.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Five rows of white headstones in memoriam for the crew members of the Scourge, sinking in 1813 off the shore of Lake Ontario. An anchor is carved on each stone. The grounds have tufted grass and dandelions grow amongst the graves.

Five rows of white headstones in memoriam for the crew members of the Scourge, sinking in 1813 off the shore of Lake Ontario. An anchor is carved on each stone. The grounds have tufted grass and dandelions grow amongst the graves.

The Scourge memorial, Hamilton ON.
#31daysofgraves

02.10.2025 12:59 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

There is a thistle on the second row.

01.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
small hours
big time

night through the trees
at the back of the house

go outside to look up - sing Orion
to the tune of Gloria by Them

small hours big time night through the trees at the back of the house go outside to look up - sing Orion to the tune of Gloria by Them

1/10/25 - nocturn

01.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 67    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

This portrait is such a perfect encapsulation of Artaud’s relationship to the Surrealists. A skeptical, grim look over the shoulder, back to Man Ray, who clearly finds him beautiful and glamorous.

01.10.2025 18:50 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0
Cemetery arch at nightfall. The sign reads St. Eugene's Cemetery.

Cemetery arch at nightfall. The sign reads St. Eugene's Cemetery.

19th c worn white headstones on a cliff side; the cemetery overlooks a bay.

19th c worn white headstones on a cliff side; the cemetery overlooks a bay.

Glace Bay, NS.
#31daysofgraves
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNight

01.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You know what's underestimated? Watching things that are fun to watch and not a dutiful chore.

21.09.2025 03:25 — 👍 195    🔁 4    💬 9    📌 0
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I've seen this comment before.
Arcadia remains for *me* one of the 2013 highlights; I think of it often.

29.09.2025 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So much energy!
Sometimes all one needs is a bit of farce to see the week out.

29.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Playbill cover for The Drawer Boy.

Playbill cover for The Drawer Boy.

Crossing Ontario again to see seven shows in four days 🧮

Murmurations, checker-board fields, Tosca, flaming trees.
Chats with a young poet, a theatre student, and a fisher lamenting the lack of fish.
A prized heron!

A funny and heartbreaking play, here note-perfect with favourites of the stage.💔

28.09.2025 17:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like the mood, here.

26.09.2025 03:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A theatre playbill for True West.
Two men, one sitting before a typewriter, the second leans over the first.

A theatre playbill for True West. Two men, one sitting before a typewriter, the second leans over the first.

Fine work tonight from The Kitchen Sink Collective. 🦗

26.09.2025 01:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Perennial favourite.

25.09.2025 18:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Eve finds the tree of knowledge bare on aisle seven

25.09.2025 12:45 — 👍 70    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 0
An old silo and farm outbuilding are seen across a corn field. Clouds are full and low-hanging. Wild grape climbs around the silo and outbuilding.

An old silo and farm outbuilding are seen across a corn field. Clouds are full and low-hanging. Wild grape climbs around the silo and outbuilding.

Field study.

25.09.2025 17:09 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A set of windows in an office tower; the office is in the shade; another set of high-rise windows, in the sun, are reflected in the first windows, the window frames intersecting on the diagonal.

A set of windows in an office tower; the office is in the shade; another set of high-rise windows, in the sun, are reflected in the first windows, the window frames intersecting on the diagonal.

Look up.
#WindowsOnWednesday

24.09.2025 12:48 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bluejay Blue.

23.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 349    🔁 62    💬 8    📌 2
A combine discharges its harvest under overcast sky.
An attendant farmer size talks on his phone.

A combine discharges its harvest under overcast sky. An attendant farmer size talks on his phone.

Ingleside detour.🍂

23.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Kop en stuk van borst van een spreeuw tegen een donkere achtergrond. De witte tekening in de veren komt mooi naar voren.
Kopje is naar rechts gedraaid.

Kop en stuk van borst van een spreeuw tegen een donkere achtergrond. De witte tekening in de veren komt mooi naar voren. Kopje is naar rechts gedraaid.

Een spetter van een spreeuw.

Mooie avond allemaal.

#VandaagGemaakt

23.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 83    🔁 7    💬 9    📌 0
Sunset in a waterfront trail parking lot. Pale peach sky. People sit in cars enjoying the evening. An older gentleman sits in a lawn chair by his car; a young woman stands in the background looking towards the camera.

Sunset in a waterfront trail parking lot. Pale peach sky. People sit in cars enjoying the evening. An older gentleman sits in a lawn chair by his car; a young woman stands in the background looking towards the camera.

Was a nice night for it.

21.09.2025 23:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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