Month July 2023

Reminiscing Date & Nut Cake

2021-05 Basement Archeology - Food, Bright, Content, Document, Image type, Other, Paper Texture, Photography, Projects, Text, Texture, recipe

During the pandemic I overcame my reluctance, my dread of unearthing memories of departed family, and mustered the courage to explore the catacombs of our basement, an effort I equated to an archeological expedition. In a chamber of mysteries, guarded…

AI: Are we going to be Eclipsed?

@Print, AI-Generated, Architecture, Content, Dancing Stickman, Image type, Man, People, Photography, Robot, Sepia Tones, Thing, Trades and Celebreties, Unknown, Wall

This note includes large sections of the article “Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed,” written by David Brooks and published in the New York Times, July 13, 2023. The Turning Test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 submitted:…

Dancing in the Park

Each twist and turn we experience through our lives acts like a kaleidoscope, that shifts the colour and pattern with each rotation, reshaping how we understand our recollections and how we might interpret and accept each new event that comes…

The Gazebo

2023-07-03 Gazebo, 2023-08 Ward 1 Construction Projects, Architecture, Content, Nature, Other, Pavilion, Plant, Projects, Tree, Wood

Ah, fair Thornhill, a village so picturesque it would make a postcard jealous. There on the edge of the precipice of Windy Hill park, named for the gusts that seemed to have a personal vendetta against umbrellas, a great mystery…

Hiking

2023-05 Gaspe, Canada, Clouds, Content, Gaspe, High Contrast, Highland, Nature, Photography, Places, Projects, Quebec, Sky

The trail wound its way along the forest’s edge, a slender path navigating the boundary where untamed wilderness and human endeavour converged. On the left, the woods stood tall, with their embracing branches veiling their enigmatic depths whose secrets were…