destination unknown: What a fabulous weekend!

The sun was shining, the birds were singing, we visited Riverdale Farm !!!

And took a walk through the park -- isn't this red dragonfly beautiful? (click on this photo -- it looks REALLY cool blown up)

And we went to the Cabbagetown ArtFestival !!!!! I bought a small work from Danielle Hession . It was hard to photograph because it has a resin coating on it -- it's about 6x8"

A few years ago at The Toronto Outdoor Art Show I bought one of her inspiration kits.

Danielle was featured in Somerset Studio this month. I love her work -- I wish that I could afford one of her huge mixed media works to go above my bed! She's at the Queen West Art Crawl next weekend -- exhibiting in Trinity Bellwoods Park (Toronto) on Saturday Sept 19 and Sunday Sept 20 11am-6pm. My friend Stacy Cameron will be there too! Stacy makes fabulous jewelry from silver and copper. See you there!!

A Year of Fiction (2014)

The Magicians Land (Lev Grossman) September - mm
Summer House With Swimming Pool ( Herman Koch) September - mm
The Bear (Claire Cameron) September - mmm
1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)) August - mmm
The Serpent of Venice (Christopher Moore) July - mm
Annabel (Kathleen Winter) July - mmm
The Deception of Livy Higgs (Donna Morrissey)July - mmm
Speaking From Among the Bones (Alan Bradley) July - mmm
The Tiger Claw (Shauna Singh Baldwin) July - mmm
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) July - mmm
The Dinner ( Herman Koch) June - mm
Still Life With Breadcrumbs (Anna Quindlen) June - mm
Crimes Against My Brother (David Adams Richards) June - mmm
The Execution of Noa P. Singelton (Elizabeth L. Silver) May - mmm
Bad Monkeys (Matt Ruff) May - m
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt) May - mmm
All My Puny Sorrows (Miriam Toews)April - mm
Burnese Lessons (Karen Connelly) March - mmm
The Fault in Our Stars (John Green) March - mmm
Patchwork Planet (re-read) (Anne Tyler) March mmm
After Her (Joyce Maynard) March - mm
The Good Mayor (Andrew Nicoll) March - m
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Helen Simonson) February - mmm
Me Before You (JoJo Moyes) February - mmm
Galore (Michael Crummey) February - mmm
The Radleys (Matt Haig) January - mmm
Too Close to Home (Linwood Barclay) January - mm
Lily's Valley (Libby Broadbent) January mm
Silver Linings Playbook (Matthew Quick) January - mmm

A Year of Fiction (2013)

MaddAddam (Margaret Atwood) October
The Year of the Flood- reread (Margaret Atwood) October
Oryx and Crake -reread (Margaret Atwood) September
Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple) September
The Magician King (Lev Grossman) September
The Magicians (Lev Grossman) August
And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini) August
the brief, wondrous life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz) August
The Cat's Table (Michael Ondaatje) July
That Thing That Happened (Libby Broadbent) July
Earth Unaware (Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnson) July
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson) June
Speaking from Among the Bones (Alan Bradley) YA June
I am Half-Sick of Shadows (Alan Bradley)YA June
A Red Herring Without Mustard (Alan Bradley) YA May
This is How You Lose Her (Junot Diaz) May
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag (Alan Bradley) YA May
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Alan Bradley) YA May
The Next Queen of Heaven (Gragory Maguire) April
Before I go to Sleep (S.J. Watson) April
Dog Stars (Peter Heller) April
Flight Behavior (Barbara Kingsolver) April
The Unlikely Pilgrimmage of Harold Fry (Rachel Joyce) March
Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Carol Rifka Brunt) March
The Light Between Oceans (M L Stedman) March
Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher) March
Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follet) February
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (Jenny Wingfield ) January
The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey) January
Talk Funny Girl (Roland Merullo) January

Sunday, September 13, 2009

What a fabulous weekend!

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