Cardinals Visiting

 

Review in the Montreal Review of Books

Ken Norris sent me this link, a review of our three new Ekstasis Editions books in the Montreal Review of Books. Great to see the review and many thanks to Robyn Fadden who wrote the review.

Here is the link, https://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/vehicule-poets-farkas-morrissey-norris/?fbclid=IwAR31auEvflf89eeI_V6jJeOffNzzhBzDGRB9HzTfJ_bKen1ErOiWSAl_dGs

The garden's progress: mid-August

When August begins the days grow shorter; now it's getting dark by 8 p.m. There is also the smell of August in the air, it's something I've noticed since I was a child; that smell of August coincided with shorter days and told me that summer didn't have long to last and then it was back to dreaded school in a few weeks and the end of my freedom. Now, the insects are singing at night, I hear them before bed around 11:30 p.m. and again at 5 a.m. I used to think fireflies were finished their business by mid-July but this year I saw them at the beginning of August; they say it was a hotter than usual summer but it seemed an average summer for heat except for the fireflies. Now we are on the downward slide to fall.

Down at the Village Shopping Plaza

The Village Shopping Plaza is boarded up; cement barriers keep people from parking their cars in the large parking lot behind the buildings, no one is dumping their garbage there anymore... But you can always depend on someone to change the plans. Looks like someone has entered the building with a ladder, not sure if this was done by the owners or by someone else. As far as I know we don't have squatters around here, but maybe we do. 

Update as of 23 August 2022...

Note the surveillance camera on the window on the right

More junk piled outside

Three Vehicule Poets interviewed

Here's an interview Ken Norris, Endre Farkas, and I did last spring; with thanks to Carolyn Marie Souaid for her excellent questions and Collett Tracey for her equally excellent and perceptive introduction. Thanks to rob mclennan for publishing it on periodicity.

Here's the link: periodicity journal.

Walking by St. Philip's Anglican Church this morning

 

Gardening

 Photos taken end of July 2022.

The garden today

Beautiful weather today after two days of cold (+15 C); no mosquitoes, many birds singing, a brilliant red cardinal, some other birds visiting the bird bath, the garden at its height. And life is good.

Your Inner Hermit enjoys gardening

 Photos taken the end of July 2022.

This is Lythrum "Terra Nova", more commonly known as Purple Loosestrife

Hollyhocks

Foxglove

The garden on the hottest day of the summer . . .

 Garden photos taken on Saturday, 06 August 2022; +34 C: