Ariel Gordon's Blog, page 17

Reprint: Write out of Wolseley

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So I was interviewed a few weeks ago by Meg Crane for The Leaf, whose slogan is "Serving Winnipeg's Wolseley Neighbourhood."

We met at the Neighbourhood Cafe, where I slurped on loose-leaf tea while chatting with Meg about Stowaways and the Manitoba Book Awards.

My thanks to Meg & the Leaf!

Scanning

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So M, in his tradition of quietly supporting the people around him, has been scanning a selection of the girl's drawings and uploading them to his page on the Society 6 website.

Which means that you can get the girl's drawings of "Turtle on a Lemon" or "bob the Postman" on t-shirts and cushions and, well, shower curtains. If you want.

She's quietly thrilled. And, also, wants to know when she gets her cut...

PBN: Lynda Monahan

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From the spring 2015 issue of Prairie books NOW.

five books + an egg cup

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Some of the MB authored/published books I chatted with Dahlia Kurtz about July 9 on CJOB 680:

The Significance of Moths by Shirley Camia (Turnstone Press)
Lessons from a Nude Man by Donna Besel (Hagios Press)
Infinitum by GMB Chomichuk (Chizine Publications)
Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story by David Alexander Robertson & Scott Henderson (Portage & Main Press)
City Beautiful by Randy Turner (Winnipeg Free Press)

Or, put another way, two graphic novels, one non-fiction book, one book of short stories, and one collection of poetry.


This segment is part of a monthly books column I'm doing, which so far is great fun. The most surprising thing is that two eight-minute segments = a half hour of radio. Or that sixteen minutes would go by so quickly...



(The egg cup was painted by the girl at one of those ceramic-painting places.)

...and one more

All photos Riding Mountain National Park, MB. June 29, 2015. * * *

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiildflowers.

new! mushrooms!

All photos Riding Mountain National Park, MB. June 29, 2015. * * *

From the woods around the Deep Bay Cabin at RMNP. What I especially like about these ones are the elaborate mold spores growing from the mushrooms' gills.

rust/lavender

All photos Riding Mountain National Park, MB. June 29, 2015.* * *

These were both teeny-tiny new mushrooms. I appreciate their delicacy, in terms of size but also colour. Faintest lilac and gradations of burnt-orange.

under the trees

All photos Riding Mountain National Park, MB. June 27, 2015.

wild/flowering

All photos Riding Mountain National Park, MB. June 25, 2015. * * *

From the first few days at the Deep Bay Cabin in RMNP.

I didn't have to go far for these ones, in fact. There were yellow lady's slippers just outside the cabin and the rest I found in the fringe of trees beyond that...

Retreat mug

Got lots of writing done today at the Deep Bay Cabin in RMNP about the history of apple trees on the prairies and foraging and my experience volunteering for Fruit Share.

At the end of the afternoon, I walked to town to get my 'retreat mug,' by Winnipeg-based potter Steve Jorgenson.

Someone on FB, where I posted this first, asked what a 'retreat mug' was.

It's a mug that I buy while on retreat and use pretty much exclusively during that time. 

Later, when I'm home, it reminds me of that time to myself, reading & writing & sipping tea.

I still have the mug that I bought in Lumsden SK when I was attending the Sage Hill Writing Experience, for instance...