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Jeffrey Wetson says, "I started painting rafting scenes because my brother is a guide on the Middle Fork of the Salmon and he wanted a label design for his winery."
Larry Willcutt says, "My interest in subjects varies greatly, however I seem to paint more boat pictures than anything else."
Francis Hopkins "almost certainly was the person who designed the first Stars and Stripes."
Wilderness Tours is a pretty slick outfit and none of us died. We were there just a tad too early for Canadian Forces Week.
So in summation, Sally went white water rafting, and now she's lost at sea:
Meanwhile in Toronto, there is anarchy in the streets:
And in the U.S., Condoleezza Rice praises our country.
(shit, her first name shows up in spell-check)
Things have gone horribly wrong this weekend.
OK, just to keep everyone in the know, at this moment, Sally is white water rafting:
In a part of Ontario that boasts a great number of rugged natural gazebo rock formations:
Meanwhile, back at the Toronto church I attend:
We've been fervently praying for someone to deliver us from evil.
amen.
So the evening report - Sally is still white water rafting:
But, bbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! it's cold:
Hopefully, they have hot chocolate:
Meanwhile, I am comfy and smug in my home:
And it's all very dangerous:
...because it's reported that the RCMP, Toronto Police Department & CSIS have finally made nice with each other and, on top of that, have arrested 17 men on terrorist charges.
So, to bring everyone up to date - Sally is currently white water rafting. Which I imagine looks something like this:
It is cold and rainy, so hopefully she packed this:
Meanwhile, I've been in my garden:
Drinking tea.
And who should pay me a visit?
Why it's Joint Task Force Two, Canada's top-secret anti-terrorist commando unit.
Joint Task Force II, modeled on the British SAS, was formed in 1993 with a counterterrorism mission. These days, that means it can do anything. Previously, counterterrorism was handled by the RCMP Special Emergency Response Team, but their scope was domestic and it was bad PR for the Mounties to be given a job that involved killing people, therefore it was decided that the Canadian Forces would create and control a top-secret unit for these purposes.
One current deploynment for JTFII is Afghanistan, where our Chief of Defense Staff General Rick Hillier is quoted as saying that the Canadian Forces go after "detestable murderers and scumbags", "radical murderers and killers" and "despicable murderers and bastards". "We are the Canadian Forces," says Gen. Hillier. "Our job is to be able to kill people." Thus, forever shattering our illusions of a Canadian army devoted to repairing damaged hospitals overseas.
Now that Sally's out of town I can turn this site into the gardening blog that it wants to be.
A nice rendition of my front yard by Thomas Kinkade.
(I found the blue Delphiniums in the bottom right corner of this example rather fetching and as a whole the painting accurately portrays my inspiring and gracious lifestyle)
According to an article on the Guardian Unlimited site, the painter of light is fighting some legal claims against his personal & business practises:
"Two former employees, Terry Sheppard and John Dandois, told the panel of further examples of Kinkade's unpredictable behaviour: bringing disorder to a Las Vegas performance by the illusionists Siegfried and Roy by repeatedly yelling the word "codpiece" from his audience seat, and urinating in public - in an elevator and on a model of Winnie the Pooh at a Disneyland hotel. "This one's for you, Walt," Mr Sheppard claimed the artist said as he did so."