Coleus Roots and Crazypants Time
. A friend just brought me these ivy cuttings tonight (in the white pitcher). I can’t identify the variety, but it has strange curly leaves, like it went out and got a perm. When I put the ivy in...
View ArticleGuitars and Sunflowers, Part One
with Gary Mockford . I first picked up the guitar when I was fourteen. It was this guitar. No, actually, it was an acoustic guitar. But I DID get this guitar when I was fourteen. My mom bought it...
View ArticleBlood Sacrifice
. I’ve been sick for a few days, so instead of Guitars and Sunflowers, Part Two, or some big, rambly, philosophical post about creativity, I’m posting the photos I promised of (some of) the finished...
View ArticleWorth a Thousand Words
coloured pencil, pastel, and ink on paper “You must understand it, go into it, examine it, and give your heart and your mind, with everything that you have, to find out a way of living differently....
View ArticleConvergence and Community
. I took this shot yesterday, on my bike ride home from work. This is the Thompson River, looking west, viewed from the north shore of Kamloops, BC. Kamloops is a place divided – socially,...
View ArticleHermits United
11×14″ – pastel on paper . My musical mentor calls Sunday his “sacred day.” Though he doesn’t really practice any religion, he is very much aware, after a week of worldly intrusions, of the need for a...
View ArticleTiny Paintings
. Just a quick mid-week post to show off some of my mom’s artwork. These three paintings are 4X6″ on heavy watercolour paper – not sure of the thickness, but thick. They are actually greeting...
View ArticleJane of All Trades
. When I’m on a renovation job, sometimes I don’t know what I’m going to be doing when I walk in the door. On any given day, I might be using a nail gun and a compressor to pin down a board. I might...
View ArticleHeavy Metal Minuets
source unknown . When people ask me who my influences are as a singer, I don’t think they expect my first answer to be Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson. The first time I heard Iron Maiden, it was...
View ArticleKittens and Hendrix
I’ve been absent from The Treehouse for about a month. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind here at the non-virtual Treehouse. My housemate has moved, I have a musician friend staying with me, phones and...
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