Burnt land, with charred rotten trees over hard Canadian Shield granite. This is my Algonquin.

Conservatives hold a 'progressive euchre and smoking concert' March 21, 1917 http://ow.ly/i/a2Ajy

Progress of a modern society cuisine: eggless, milkless, butterless cake. http://ow.ly/i/a2Afd

Ontario Hydro - screwed up since 1917 http://ow.ly/i/a2Abv

Belleville women are to be avoided http://ow.ly/i/a2A2m

Meanwhile, if you have an inclination to shop for men's coats at @HoltRenfrew, don't delay. http://ow.ly/i/a2zTB

The @GlobeandMail on March 21, 1917. It came more regularly on the trains to @Algonquin_PP http://ow.ly/i/a2zNt

Park Advice: A year employment in the bush will cure anyone in the incipient stages of consumption

It's the first day of my last spring. Another time around and new journal entries on the way. http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK

The @OttawaCitizen on March 21, 1917. More colour today @michaelrwood http://ow.ly/i/a2zEX

I miss Arthur Lismer and his pen sketches of me. He could capture the very essence of my indolence.

You cannot tell by a leaf what colour you are going to get.

I conducted my life in an unconventional manner, viewed as unseemly by others.

Soon I am leaving the Shack. Follow me as I write the journal of my last spring http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK http://t.co/tqEV8F7S6A

I ask Tom if he knows where Carl Ahrens' (the vicious art critic) cottage in Leith is. I ask him to torch it on my behalf

What would I have done if I lived past the age of forty?

Tom Harkness says Elizabeth is doing well. All the folks in Annan and Leith are doing swimmingly.

1907 Landscape

I often produced something that I never intended.

I get a surprise visit from my brother-in-law, Tom Harkness from Owen Sound. He came down by train last night with Walter Davidson.