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Ralph Bice Lake & Queer Lake, Algonquin Provincial Park, ON. (summer 2013)

#algonquin park #camping #ontario #canada #canoe camping #summer

William James Topley. (1913). Campers - Rev. Mr. Salton & friends. Library and Archives Canada.

This is the best.

#algonquin park #ontario #black and white #photography #women #cache lake

Tom Thomson, a member of the Group of Seven, Canoe Lake, ON. (1914). Library and Archives Canada.

#algonquin park #black and white #canoe lake #tom thomson #group of seven #ontario #photography #shadow

Rosemary Gilliat Eaton. (May-June? 1954). A woman cooking at Algonquin Park. Library and Archives Canada.

Also known as: cool campsite look aspirations.

#algonquin park #ontario #camping #black and white #photography

Chris Lund. (1949). Man and woman with deer on highway 60 in Algonquin Provincial Park. Library and Archives Canada.

#algonquin park #ontario #photography

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"Oh, Katherine" by Emily Jane White

#emily jane white #music #neofolk #folk noir #strings

Lighthouse at Point Atkinson, West Vancouver, B.C. (my disposable camera photo, February 2013)

#point atkinson #lighthouse park #vancouver #pacific northwest #disposable camera #photography

Algonquin Provincial Park (Ontario). Pamphlet. Grand Truck Railway Company of Canada, 1917.

Going on my first canoe/camping trip in Algonquin Park (a.k.a. the "highway to health & happiness") next month!

#algonquin park #ontario #canada

history ≠ the past

archives ≠ memory

#archives #memory #history

Glenn Gould's gravesite at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, ON. (my photo, June 2013)

The grave marker is inscribed with the opening bars of the aria from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988.

#glenn gould #j.s. bach #BWV 988 #goldberg variations #baroque #music

Intersection in Wicker Park, Chicago (my disposable camera photo, March 2013)

#wicker park #chicago #disposable camera #neighbourhoods #photography #grain

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The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto: Allegro (performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra). This concerto is an orchestral adaption of The Butterfly Lovers, an old love story set in the Jin Dynasty.

Monarch butterfly at Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto, ON. (photo by my friend M.I., August 2012)

#tommy thompson park #violin concerto #leslie street spit #monarch butterfly #summer #music #photography #strings

Banana bread, with walnuts & chocolate chips!

(Protip: substitute 1/2 the butter with applesauce and some cream or yogourt)

#banana bread #baking #domesticity

Peanut butter cookies, because good apartment smells and well, cookies!

After the first batch, I developed a pretty efficient one-woman assembly line (dough balls, a dip in sugar, forked criss-crosses), but alas, could only bake 6 at a time! Anyway, I am always super pleased at the consistent roundness of these cookies.

#cookies #baking #peanut butter #domesticity

L: Cyclists at Queen's Park, Toronto (my photo, May 2013), R: photo via: Martin Reis

I rode at this year's Bells on Bloor for the first time!

#bells on bloor #queen's park #bike safety #bike lanes #bloor street #toronto

Life is a wild polyphony, but often a good woman like you can bring about some exquisite resolution of its discords.

Letter from Brahms to Clara (15 October 1868), quoted from Jan Swafford's Johannes Brahms: A Biography, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

#johannes brahms #letters #correspondence #brahms #clara schumann #life #love #music

Franz Listz, Liebesträume No. 3 in A flat major (1850)

Sheet music via: archive.org

#franz liszt #liebestraum #music #sheet music #piano #liebesträume #dreams of love #notturno #nocturne

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