What an amazing bird. The Australian Blue Fairy Wren, I’m told.

Probably poisonous, because it’s Australian!

I must join you at one of these meetups soon. I’m going through London withdrawal!

#moonjoy

Yes.

The 1960s modernism of the Ottawa train station. 🇨🇦

Prize-worthy photo! 🦘

was different.” Historian Eileen Power, Cambridge Univ., 1938, describing the fall of the Roman Empire in Gaul in 438 C.E., as a warning of what was coming. The circle of time repeats, again and again. 2/2

“Why did they not realise the magnitude of the disaster that was befalling them? The things they learned in their schools had no relation to the things in the world outside and bred in them the fatal illusion that tomorrow would be as yesterday, that everything was the same, whereas everything 1/2

A photo of a Flat White and a croissant in a café.

Flat White ordered up, helping me pretend I’m in warm Australia 🇦🇺 and not in chilly Canada 🇨🇦.
Understory Café. Toronto.

A view of the C.N. Tower and the waterfront skyline of Toronto, with an airport windsock in the foreground.

The iconic downtown skyline in Toronto on a cold, grey February day. Oh, and winds 280 at 5kts, it appears.

A nighttime street scene with cars buried in snow and sidewalks covered in a metre of snow.

A proper Canadian winter has settled into Toronto. 🇨🇦🥶

False Creek and the Granville Ave. bridge. Vancouver, B.C., Dec. 2025 #Canada

The Frank P. Wood Room at the Art Gallery of Ontario. #AGO

I have the same one!

Yes, RCAF was on point this year!

Sailboats and catamarans at anchor during a striking sunset at Grand Case, St. Martin, French West Indies.

Baie de Grand Case, French West Indies, at sunset. #FWI #Outremar

Sounds like an enjoyable combination!

A view of the sand bar islands outlining the south shore of Long Island, New York, as seen from an airplane. The curvature of the Earth is visible in the distance.

Heading out to sea, with Fire Island and the sand bars protecting the southern shores of Long Island, New York below.

Snow has arrived early in Toronto. The weaker trees will fail under the weight of their still-leaved limbs.

Water’s Edge Promenade, Toronto, Oct. 2025

That should do the trick!

A cloudy sky from an aircraft window, showing the curvature of the Earth in late afternoon sun.

Over the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, east of New Brunswick, in the late afternoon sun.

British artillery pieces shown overlooking the steep cliffs leading into St. John’s Harbour.

19thC. British Artillery 8-pounders guarding “The Narrows” into St. John’s Harbour, Newfoundland. This island maintains a strong British heritage, with the Union Jack 🇬🇧 flying alongside the Maple Leaf 🇨🇦 in many places.

Sending kind thoughts about your mum.

An antique cannonover looking the bay at Ferryland, Newfoundland. The cannon is sandwiched between two bright-yellow benches, far above the bay

Two fishing boats painted bright blue, both up on blocks for the coming winter.

Ferryland, Newfoundland. Fishers have sheltered here since the 1500s

View of Montreal whilst taking off in an airplane on a sunny day.

Montréal on a sunny afternoon.

Two kayakers slowly moving down the mouth of a calm river surrounded by marshland.

Kayakers in the renaturalized mouth of the Don River. Toronto, July, 2025

Petting an oversized metal bird affixed to a tree in a park.

Bird watching in the park.

Elton John platform shoes c.1974-1976. Bata Shoe Museum collection, Toronto, 2025.

“New Yak City”, 1963, by Canadian multi-media artist Joyce Wieland OC (1930-1998). Produced soon after Wieland relocated to New York in 1962.