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Also, here's a picture from better days.This was taken a few years ago at some street event in the Riverside area:


Years ago when I was young I came to Toronto to go to a Halloween party and to have sex with my boyfriend, I was going to school in Sudbury, anyhoo I was dressed as a clown. I was staying in one of those seedy motels on the edge of town that charged by the hour...

As I came out of my room with my clown costume on, a drunk stumbled by then stopped, turned,looked at me blurridly and said, "YOU THINK YOU'RE SO FUNNY!"

Sometimes, sometimes just pathetic.

I wanted to get some photos of the ice coating the tree branches reflecting the sun. The sky was that heart stopping-ly blue, blue, blue, the kind that makes peoples of northern climes simultaneously chime with awe and shiver with cold.

Alas my camera is not the best. I tip my hat to the brave photographers who climb over ice and snow to get photographs. In truth it is the photographer in this case who really is limited. I love winter vistas but only when looking out at them from the warmth of a 21st century home equipped with thermal windows, central heating and electricity…

Speaking of which, our little disaster here in Scarberia with the lack of power and heat ended far more quickly than the more painful lack of internet and television! For the news I had my 92 year old mother, her radio still had working batteries. With her head phones on she would give me updates. “Still cold, still without heat and power in many homes…” :)

Sometimes making a big deal about New Years it is not very helpful to people with the blues. I think that is the subject of another post. I went to dinner and a movie with friends and was in bed before midnight, it was just enough to be lovely. Resolutions? NO!

I had a few projects to work on once the power came back. Here is a photo of me working on “Penny”. You can see I feel pretty good about it.