Intimations of Spring

Before the Warkworth Maple Syrup Festival and well after the GroundHog’s Day tom-foolery, in the nether world between times comes Intimations of Spring. Here in picture, prose and poetry is that time in the Northumberland Hills of Eastern Ontario. Intimations of Spring Lost in thought the winds crack a tree a branch shudders, swooning cracks …

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Baseball’s Agony

Baseball is a sport of rhythms and routine; something that once you play it , it definitely stays in your veins. And if you watch Baseball enough, the rightstuff also seeps in to your bloodstream and consciousness. Out in Calgary Alberta, one of my favorite pastimes was to sneak out to Foothill’s Park right next …

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Northumberland Winter

All through December and the first half of January I was gearing up psychologically and physically to do battle with Winter. But Winter was feinting – some cool nights, and a little snow but then followed by those Glow in the Night and “it must be Global Warming” days of early January. In short it …

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NHH Choir

Cobourg’s Northumberland Hills Hospital has a choir that entertains themselves as much as the patients in the Complex Care Unit at the Hospital among other wards. Now that is a very good thing because the enthusiasm and joy that choir brings to its music and singing easily communicates across to the patients. One sees toe …

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A Walk in the Parks

Fall is the start of the Walk, Ride, and Run season for a variety of charities from the Terry Fox Run to the Ride for the Cure. One group that has caught my attention is the Weekend to Breast Cancer Walk in Toronto. Here is slight diversion on how I met this particular charity. I …

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