I am cordial, untamed, moody, exuberant - all at the same time.

Despite the doctor's advice in the recent article, I have advised @mowatlodge not to become 'Nudist Colony of the North'

The pines that were considered unpaintable were beautiful to me.

There's more truth in a sketch than a canvas. There's more truth in a cuss than a well-prepared speech.

1916 Petawawa Gorges #tt1916

My father wanted to get his money's worth from me. I had to stay on the farm until I was twenty-one.

The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses ~ GTR brochure

The 'back-to-nature cure' to the extreme. A doctor in Buffalo has ordered children to play naked in the snow. ~ Toronto World

In 1916 I worked with Ed Godin, following the Booth lumber drives down the Ottawa

The Board of Education is now refusing what may be German goods. That includes medical, supplies.

Autumn Tapestry Tangled Trees

Great War Update, Mar 13, 1917: Russian Revolution: Moscow in the hands of revolutionaries.

Jackson once said there are no Cubists in Vienna but there is one in Canoe Lake.

Mar 13, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: NO EDITION TODAY

In place of your pencil - a rifle! In place of your inkwell - red blood!' ~ recruiting ad Toronto World Mar 13, 1917

I say that all trees have souls. I cannot say that of all men.

1916 Lake and Red Tree, fall 1916. Oil on wood panel, 21.5 x 27 cm.#tt1916 1916LakeandRedTree.jpg

Understanding of the landscape requires sensitivity to its colours

1912 Sketch for a Gray Day in the North

10 days before I go up North. Follow the Journal of My Last Spring of 1917. ttlastspring.com