Hard times are hitting Jim MacD pretty badly. The hefty mortgage on his farm in Thornhill has become a millstone around his neck.

I didnt analyze. I worked from my inside feeling and let that govern my work.

Sounds appetizing. Not sure if you are supposed to spread it on your bread, or slather it on your foot.

A long canoe trip in Algonquin Park goes a long way to solving all your troubles.

Ross Rifle is finally cancelled March 19, 1917

Invite an artist over for a hot dinner, a good conversation, a stiff drink, and buy his art so he can pay his rent.

1914 Cottage on a Rocky Shore #tt1914

Fred Varley tried to set me up with wife's half-sister. I didn't appreciate that.

Visiting Jim MacD's farmhouse in Thornhill. Not really thrilled to see the War posters he is working on. But his family needs to eat.

My apologies to the ladies for the recent tweets but I'm telling it like it is.

Art is not there and then but here and now.

Jackson showed me how to drag wet paint over previously dried paint.

Anyone who thinks bachelordom/spinsterhood should be equated with celibacy is profoundly mistaken.

I knew all of the birds and their song.

Blueberry pie made in a campfire reflector oven is my specialty.

1916 Decorative Landscape Birches

I freely gave away my sketchs usually in return for a minor obligation.

My relationship with @WinnieTrainor - intermittent and unsatisfying. Maybe that will change this spring.

I consider myself as a man of the wild - rather unfit for female company.

In the summer the greens are too intense and undifferentiated to interest me.