No Kid! (final thought for 2012)

Monday, December 31, 2012

Don Music,
Furby
aren't the same!

2012 Resolution Broken

Regrettably,
could not put off
procrastinating.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

liquid leopard print:
  freezing drizzle,
       windshield.

Vacation Mindset

^{Saturday, December 29, 2012}

 Brain-first

sucked into

Pinterest/Trizzle vortex.

Saturday, December 29th, 2012 (early AM)

Signal Hill's Star,

gauzy fog scarf.    

Mullock Street House Party Hot Punch Recipe

Friday, December 28th, 2012

Cider Mix

Five Year old Mead.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

No Christmas lights

at Snail hotel.

Thank you, A.C. Hunter Library

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Post work hairiness

subdued library sanity.

Boxing Day

Wednesday, December 26th, 2012

Paradise 

offers refuge

  from 

Christmas mayhem.

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

Sad anecdotes

 eclipse

Christmas morning

 shine.

Whispers from the Ghosts of Christmas Eves Past

Monday, December 24, 2012

Glass ladybug found

on Paradise doorstep.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Rusty Rooster cloud

flies over 

Paradise.

Christmas Miracle on Bideford Place

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Caroling inspires

Thomas Cat's

social courage.

Saturday Morning Christmas Shopping Survival Guide

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Before nine o'clock

all shopping completed.

Winter Solstice

Friday, December 21, 2012

This darkest of days is shortest.

Hey Rosetta!!! Christmas concert at Mile One Stadium

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Paper snowflakes

 delight

intimate/inspired crowd.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Santa's visit

creates

daycare drama!

Thanks!

Now I've Heard it all!

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

    Kid

  humming...

Black Sabbath's 

"Iron Man".

Monday, December 17, 2012

Early Christmas surprise:

ruptured ear drum.

Sunday, December 16th, 2012

   Post-storm

jays, finches, crows 

    gather

popcorn feast.

Saturday, December 15th, 2012

White knuckled

snowy drive

from Torbay.

Tea Sale at the Anna Templeton Centre

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Claustrophobia's nightmare,

Little kid ruling elevator.

The Sadness of Sandy Hook, The Saddest Day Ever

Friday, December 14th, 2012

Even 

childless people

feel lost

today.

Anna Templeton Centre Annual Tea Sale

Friday, December 14, 2012

Seasonal folks

 chat/greet

shop/schmooze.

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

Teacher

over-tired tantrum

not entitled.

Wild Night on Whiteway Street

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Delicious delirium:

poetry/cuisine/fellowship/wine.

Blessed Be, Niki Earle

Monday, December 10, 2012

Heaven's vast fields

anticipate your arrival.

Surprise Performance at St. John's Choir Concert

 Sunday, December 9, 2012

 

Sometimes

when asked

you must volunteer!

St. John's Choir Christmas Concert at St. Mary's Church

Sunday, December 9th, 2012

Beautiful/seasonal melodies 

overflow

modern Church.

Just another Saturday Night at the Martini Bar, George Street.

 ^{December 8, 2012 PM}

 Watch Out

Nan's first "Street" visit!

Just Another Saturday Afternoon at the Martini Bar, George Street

Saturday, December 8th, 2012

Hundred self-inflated balloons,
one blown cuticle.

Saturday, December 8th, 2012 AM

Auntie recovering

morning 

hot tub 

steeping.

Being an Auntie Rocks!

December 8th, 2012

Crunching crickets

with overtired tweens.

Delightful!

Growing Up Sucks #2

Friday, December 7th, 2012

Bloodied zonules!

Ten year olds....

Savages!

Growing Up Sucks #1

Friday,  December 7, 2012

When  did 

water-slides

 become

frick'n scarey!?

Basillica Chior Lessons and Carols Concert

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Congregation awed by

inspirational words/music.

Basillica Chior Concert, Pre-Game Show

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Jenn Grant's

“Holy Night”

eyes closed.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

T'is the season...

avoid Santa's Parade

Movember Afterthoughts

Friday, November 30, 2012

Some daycare dads

creepier than others.

Wednesday Night at the Ship Pub

 November 28, 2012

Hot Turkey sandwiches

thaws sloppy night.

Sunday, November 25th, 2012

Red Pepper kiss

surprises 

frozen lips.

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012

Kids 

delighted by

Teacher's 

stinky burp.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Mall
bank machine...
pink bunny rescued.

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Sometimes,
anonymous
faerie godmothers
do exist.

NLAC Craft Fair at the Arts and Culture Centre

Sunday, November 18th, 2012

First frosty Sunday

Charlottestreet gear

 perfect.

NLAC Craft Fair at the Arts and Culture Centre

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Punkster wannabe

pushing

Charlottestreet

 warm/fuzzies.

Sage Electronic Advice

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

Never fix camera

with safety pins.

NLAC Craft Fair at the Arts and Culture Centre

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012

Poets' dessert:
Anna Templeton's fruit cake.

Remembrance Day Ritual

November 11, 2012

Collecting Maples leaves.
Last Post soundtrack.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Morning snow shower.
Saucy Jays sing.

Walking home from Georgetown Bakery

Saturday, November 10, 2012

St. Pat's
stone bench
chocolate croissants.

Crankiness Cure

Friday, November 10, 2012

Crown Royal Black
       and
Orange Crush!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

New comfy pajamas
cure all
Guilt.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Snail Hotel
seemingly closed
for season.

"O" is for Obama!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Our "Street" is safe!
Thank goodness!

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Nothing cute
about catching
Pink Eye!

Guy Fawke's Night

November 5,  2012

Goodie!
Experiencing joyous
Monday night
burnout!

Marc Battle's Sunday Morning keynote at Comfort Inn, St. John's

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Battle's "Hymns"
renew/refresh/remind
Spirited.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Days high point
new pink highlights.

Marc Battle Sings Friday Night Keynote at Comfort Inn, St. John's

Friday, November 2, 2012

Preaching
"Warrior Code"
to embattled
educators!

Post Hallowe'en Success Story

November 2, 2012

Daycare's orphaned pumpkin
finds good home.

Mrs. Nash has found new Employment

Friday,  November  2, 2012

Heaven desperately needed
kind/ qualified postmistress.

Yuck!

November 1, 2012

Techno-colour horror!
Hallowe'en returns
in reverse!

Hallowe'en Nightmare

Daycare Invasion:
Plastic clad sugar freaks!

Welcome to your Retirement Home, Mr. Bear

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Official adoption announcement.
Mr. Bear
 Home.

Lost!

Monday, October 29, 2012

Sometimes
cat earring
doesn't
come back.

The Morning After the Sale

October 28, 2012

After
goodies
fellowship
successful sales-
exhaustion.

Saturday Night, October 27, 2012

Horrifying
Haunting
Foggy
Windsor Lake
drive.

Anglican Cathedral Annual Fall Sale

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Successful Day
from doxology
to dessert.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Twas the Migraine
before the Sale.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Suffering wet socks
collecting woolen stock.

Today's Truism

October 24, 2012

Sometimes
getting dressed up
doesn't matter.

A Complicated Question

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

To twit
or not
to twit.

Forever

October 23, 2012

Creative response to Jenn Grant's The Fighter video.

Celluloid preserved:
beautiful warrior
brave pageant Queen.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Days later....
Snail Hotel:
few vacancies.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Domestic serving staff
threatening
strike action.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

The Power
of Guilt
confounds you!

Friday, October 19, 2012

Awake
all night
free stuff
trolling.

St Michael's and All Angels parish "Famous" flipper dinner

Feeling sinful
  for enjoying
cultural right.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Sometimes
gossip
is sweeter than
chocolate.

Tuesday on Torbay Road

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

off season
snail hotel
many vacancies

Minuet at the Salvation Army Thrift Shop

Monday, October 15, 2012

showroom floor
surrendered piano
unplanned solo

Laundry day on Winter Place

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Fresh sheets
snap/crack like sails.

Inspiration from Charlotte Street

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Hurry/rush/dash
pre-cocktail costume change.

Too Soon!!

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Festive hail dusts darkened Duckworth street.

Saturday

October 13, 2012

Silence broken by
two beating hearts.

Amelia Curran performance at the Arts and Culture Centre

Friday, October 12, 2012

Emotional waves
roll/crash
flooded auditorium.

Andrew James O'Brien performance at the Art and Culture Centre

Friday, October 12, 2012

Another
fantastic Fred's Record factory
product.

Misguided Morning Wish

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Child requests
my secondhand soprano.

Dr. Neil Turok at the Arts and Culture Centre, St. John's

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Massey Lecturer
engages/expands
mind's Perimeter.

New Obsession

October 9, 2012

Possessed!
Dark Shadows
original classic cheesiness.

Love and Savagery on DVD

Monday, October 8, 2012

Gothic Romantic feature...
    certain Newfoundland classic!

Thanksgiving Sunday

October 7, 2012

Robins feast
dogberry trees
final harvest.

Community Karma

Saturday, October 6, 2012

stray pins collected
     returned
bulletin board

Friday, October 5, 2012

Autumn wasps
climb door frames
flightless.

Blessings

Thursday, October 4, 2012

At days end
conveniently 
hearing returns.

Dinner at The Ship Pub

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Quesadilla post script
calls for soup.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

quality family time...
   zombie barbie crafting

And So it Goes

Monday, October 1, 2012

Another school year.
Another ear infection.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

At Dawn
Harvest Moon
Sun Rising

Saturday Afternoon

September 29, 2012

Orange monarch
    lits
summers last dandelion.

Thrift Store Twacking

September 29, 2012

Single purple Lego
empty Saturday parking lot.

Welcome, Emmitt Fowler

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Future Procrastinator
at long last arrives.

Sarah Polley's Take this Waltz

September 27, 2012

Slow moving emotional disasters,
beautiful frustration.

CBC Television Debut

 Thursday, September 27, 2012


 Culturally speaking,
I have many Secrets.

Jean Claude Roy's book launch at the Johnson GEO Centre

September 26, 2012

In this venue
Artist eclipses Galaxy.

Spider

September 26, 2012

rusty spider's
tiny sneeze
shakes web

HEY!!!

September 25, 2012

NOT PREGNANT!!!

ACCEPTING
MONETARY
APOLOGIES
ONLY!!!

Creative Response to Jenn Grant's Beautiful Wild

September 25, 2012

Breeze catches
carries
daisy petal notes.

The Pine Tree

September 24, 2012

Pine
bejewelled
boughs diamond droplet fringed.

Gotta Say

Love them
 "Gantas"
 from the
     Bay.

Holyrood, Beachside

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Spiders
spy, skitter
under rocks
disappear.

Pumpkin

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Pine Bud Avenue...
Season's first casualty.

Lyndal Osbourne's Tracing Tides; A Topographical Investigation at The Rooms

Saturday, September 22, 2012

gun cartridges
lobster tags
festively recycled

Susan Wood's Earth Skin exhibit at The Rooms

September 22, 2012

Eternally dreaming
anonymous Found Birds
immortalized.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Fall winds
bring forth
tourist infestation.

Friday, September 21, 2012

White noise
inner voice
dark night.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Hazy creamy peach sunrise-
     eastern glow.

Apple Substitute

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Crysalis
  in jar
present for
 teacher.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Greedy wasps
gorge on
unharvested damsons.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Flying high
teacher rediscovers
swing joy.

Middle Cove Beach

Sunday, September 16, 2012

red plastic shovel
smooth blue stones

Saturday Morning Safari

September 15, 2012

Adopting
orphaned elephants
on
Circular Road.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Reunited
classroom chicks
chirp
about hurricane.

Wasps

September 13, 2012

Stunned by storm...
   won't survive shoe.

The Day After #2

September 12, 2012

Strangest storm-day:
shoveled trees
not snow.

The Day After #1

September 12, 2012

Never needed
sunscreen
on storm-day
before.

The Morning After

September 12, 2012

Funny,
rosebuds survived
where
maples crashed.

Tuesday PM

September 11, 2012

post-storm
yuppy husbands
become
urban lumberjacks

The Dogberry Tree

September 11, 2012

waved goodbye
sighed deeply
and fell

Hurricane Leslie on Pine Bud Avenue

September 11, 2012

Navigate tree branch tempest
                       holding breath.

Tuesday Morning Hamster

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

wide eye
window watching
listens
waits

Monday, September 10, 2012

Gusty schoolyard
count Leslie
in ratio.

Thank you, Wallace Noel

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Tour-guide
of over
a thousand tours.

Go Local!

September 8, 2012

See
Beat Down
at
Empire Theatres!

Friday, September 7, 2012

Weekend begins
when
wristwatch comes off.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Daycare Kid
   confessed
       rainbow phobia
                  today?

Just Saying...

September 5, 2012

Shades of gray?
Buy better detergent.....

Hornets

September 4, 2012

Mother Nature's
scapegoat
  for
Life's frustrations.

Labour Pained Monday

September 3, 2012

Long weekend
     forfeited
when shit happens.

Avondale, Conception Bay, Newfoundland

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Retro arcade games
waked on roadside.

Saturday, August 1, 2012

Cathedral echos
empty flowerpot
solo drops.

Friday, August 31, 2012

After exceptional Summer....
   Autumns coolness welcomed.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Kites windy joy...
early physics lesson.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Bite me!
Not advisable
playground taunt.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

A snow-globe's perspective
   is inherently different.

Monday's Sunrise

August 27, 2012

Electric orange smear
        stains
Wedgewood sky.

6:20AM at Eastern Edge 24 Hour Art Marathon

August 26, 2012

At Sun rise
artistic sanity
returns.

5:15AM at Eastern Edge 24 Hour Art Marathon

August 26, 2012

The hour when
body,
creativity
cools.

4AM at Eastern Edge 24 Hour Art Marathon

August 26, 2012

Grown up daycare
        in
Twilight Zone.

The Night before Marathon Morning

August 25, 2012

Despite early rise...
nervousness,
possibilities
awake.

Thank you, Neil Armstrong

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Now flying
  beyond
moon and stars.

All Praise to Jumping Bean coffee!

 Saturday, August 25, 2012

Caffeinate 
my tired being,
shattered soul!

Thank you, Jerry Nelson

Friday, August 24, 2012

Thank you
for being what
 Counts.

Snapshot at Bowring Park

 Upside down
 posed
concrete steps
 eroded.

Ship Pub Grace

Wednesday, August  22, 2012

   Give us
      today
    Diane's bread.
                      AMEN.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

NOT WITH CHILD!!!
        Just
tragically dressed.

Afternoon Tea at the Anglican Cathedral Tea Room

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

   Tea sweetened
         by
busy, buzzing Church-ladies.

Thank you, Phyllis Diller

August 20, 2012

     Heaven,
    watch out,
 here she comes!

Georgetown, Conception Bay North

August 19, 2012

          Bluejays
   try to out-scream
  roaring chainsaws.

New World Theatre's The Tempest in Cupids, #2

Audience dazzled/entranced by Aeriel's magic!

New World Theatre's The Tempest in Cupids, #1

August 18, 2012

Audience swept away by Prospero's storm.

Saturday, August 18, 2012

 Kim Wilde karaoke
    driving through
      Kelligrews.

Cathedral Confession

August 18, 2012

    Maintaining
    a Cathedral
   can be murder.

Friday, August 17, 2012

Red wine
  soothes
aching/tired feet.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Scandalous gossip,
uproarious laughter,
neighbours disturbed.

The Ship Poets

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Pub communion,
Port confessions,
everything resolved.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

      Caught,
     surprised,
      relieved
late afternoon drenching.

Gold Stars

August 14, 2012

  Teachers
 aren't entitled
    to have
   tantrums.

Monday, August 13, 2012

We're all
  thankful
     for
rainy days.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Last year's
 sunless summer:
foggy legend.

Hey Rosetta! at Mile One

August 11, 2012

Audience
dancing/delighting
paper leaves flying.
 

Ron Hynes, WGB at Mile One, #1

 August 11, 2012

 Hold back tears.
Pray for miracles.

Freak Lunch Box, Water Street

August 11, 2012

Certain
 sugar rush
wanting
to happen!

Secret of the Anglican Cathedral

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Humidity
crumbles stone
fire
couldn't destroy.

Friday, August 10, 2012

That's good.
Enough summer already!
Thanks!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

       Cat's
seasonal staff switch-
  summer's over.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 pm

Surprise
silver wrinkle,
mauve textured darkness.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Just say
thank you
without
inflicting
guilt.

August 7, 2012

On my
    birthday,
 yearly tantrum
      entitled.

Monday, August 6, 2012

So humid,
even hamster
    is
 sweaty.

Birthday present suggestion?

August 5, 2012

Living Planet's
Townie Girl
    t-shirt,
    large.

St. John's Farmer's Market

August 4, 2012

Surviving
  August
heat-wave
    with
  Indian
take-away.

Saturday, August 4, 2012

   Chocolate
Lost and Found
    doesn't
      exist.

The Seagull of St. Patrick's Church

August 3, 2012

What's worse?
Struggling seagull?
Human helplessness?

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Biblical
  Irony:
spare ribs
   are
delicious.

Regatta Day

August 1, 2012

Race
  to
lakeside
   for
Indian
cuisine.

August 1, 2012 (morning)

Irritation:
aphid
dashes
over
snail's
back.

August 1, 2012

Sometimes
      a
   scars
  origin
      is
 forgotten.

Thank you, Maeve Binchy

Her Penny Candle snuffed out today.

Monday, July 30, 2012

Hobbits have big feet, bigger mouths.

Lantern Festival

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Moon smiles as Victoria Park glows.

asking small favours...

July 28, 2012

Please say prayers for Ron Hynes.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Adulthood - buying one's own birthday cake?!

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Modern Spinsters - doing it for themselves?!

Happy Birthday, Lyndsey!

Raise your pint! Praise Ship's toastress!

Thank You, Sherman Hemsley.

July 24, 2012

George Jefferson "Mov'n on Up" today.

July 24, 2012

One wish - soak hot tired feet.

July 23, 2012

Tepid bath soothes slow burning Monday.

Sunday, July 22, 2012 pm

Effortless effortlessly rocks Mount Pearl Days!

Sunday, July 22, 2012 am

Feeling badly for one footed seagull.

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Secret stone passages collect much dust.

Rocket Bakery, Water street

July 20, 2012

Sandwich satisfaction! Pickle fit not necessary.

Clarke's Beach

July 19, 2012

At winding highways end - many bargains!

What?

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Christmas lights for The Grand Seduction.

Flower Service at Forest Road cemetary

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Give flowers to family below ground.

Spa Day at Winterholme

July 17, 2012

Hot smooth marble melts away worries.

Monday, July 16, 2012

(Shakespeare by the Sea presents
A Midsummer's Night's Dream in Bannerman Park)

Mischievous Puck magically masterminds park chaos.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Warning! Pre-coffee - I'll eat your young!

Salmonfest, Grand Falls/Windsor, entry four

"Dream On", Aerosmith - bucket list, check!

Salmonfest, Grand Falls/Windsor, entry 3

Joe Perry, I'll have your babies?!

Salmonfest, Grand Falls/ Windsor, entry 2

Not beef jerky but boob jerky!

Salmonfest, Grand Falls/ Windsor, entry one

July 14, 2012

Women in their thirties hide everything!

Sandy Cove, Terra Nova Park

Friday, July 13, 2012

Standing shin deep in swimming caplin.

It's a New Religion!

July 12, 2012

My Parish Priest is on Twitter!

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

(David Drinkell's weekly organ concert
at the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist)

Heart bursting music, neo-Gothic ribcage contained.

Sound Symposium's Harbour Symphony

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Signal Hill. Sit. Listen. Surround sound.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Cape Race round trip: titanic expedition.

July 9, 2012

What would Fred say? Just saying...

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Still following rules. Still not winning.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Sometimes Saturdays, reserved for not thinking.

Friday, July 6, 2012

Instantaneously, morning mugginess morphs to monsoon.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Unreasonable high temperatures aggravates intense sookiness.

Wednsday, July 4, 2012

Cool inner-city scalliwags complain about heat.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Intense mugginess draws out creepy crawlies.

Logy Bay Heat Wave

July 2, 2012

"We love thee wind swept land!"

Happy Canada Day

July 1, 2012

Conception Bay Highway. Bonnie Tyler karaoke!

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Newfoundland optimism. Hanging laundry. Storm approaching.

Spa at the Monastery

June 29, 2012

Stiff neck declared today Spa Day!

The Sprout

Friday, June 29, 2012

If you ask: they provide take-out.

The Avengers

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Iron Man: sarcastic mudder fudder hero!

Sound Island, Placentia Bay

June 27, 2012

Beach fire mug-up always tastes best!

Woody Island, Placentia Bay

June 26, 2012

Island's only cat, caught my tongue!

Thank you, Mrs. Cook

Monday, June 25, 2012

Your fine knitting delighted so many!

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Sun. Coffee. Rennies River Trail. Perfection.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Vacation means afternoon naps. Guilt free!

Friday, June 22, 2012

Me: Never a debutante. Thank God!

Henry Rollins @ Arts and Culture, St. John's

June 21, 2012
Punk's weird uncle rants about truisms.

June 20, 2012

In the beginning, Townie Girl created...