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Dolly’s Birthday Today. Happy Birthday Dolly!
Dolly Parton and Queens of Country, though I guess Tanya Tucker was a Princess at the time. Dale Evans definitely the Queen. Classic garage door decor!
Doug & Lois Mitchell Outstanding Calgary Artist Award – Katie Ohe – 2020
Legacy Awards Calgary Arts Development 2020. Katie Ohe
Modern Totem poles and Haida House Replica. M O A. UBC
Contemporary house posts by Musqueam artist Susan Point, and poles by artists Bill Reid, Jim Hart, Mungo Martin and others as well as the replica Haida House. All installed between 1959 and 2000.
Gitanjali 83
Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls for thy neck with my tears of sorrow.
The stars have wrought their anklets of light to deck thy feet, but mine will hang upon thy breast.
Wealth and fame come from thee and it is for thee to give or to withhold them. But this my sorrow is absolutely mine own, and when I bring it to thee as my offering thou rewardest me with thy grace.
Photo by Bardia Hashemirad on Unsplash
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Doug & Lois Mitchell Outstanding Calgary Artist Award – Katie Ohe – 2020
Legacy Awards Calgary Arts Development 2020. Katie Ohe
RCAF Snowbirds Training Sessions April 2018
Iphone 8Plus Video footage hacked together with Imovie, filmed from Kye Bay April 2018. Early Spring training in Comox BC
The Unobtainables -Bugatti Type 51
Bonhams Press Release: Influenced by Miller, the Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix car introduced twin-overhead camshafts to Bugatti's brand of thoroughbreds. The example offered is one of the best known and most distinctive of all Grand Prix Bugattis. Bugatti Type 51...
Rejecting carbon colonialism
African Development Bank breaks with anti-fossil fuel banks to fund coal power, prosperity Paul Driessen and David Wojick We recently explained how Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) use manmade climate change alarmism to justify lending policies that reject...
Harry Palmer -Photographer
A long-time supporter of the arts in Calgary, and our dear friend, Harry Palmer passed away this month. When we think we know a story, it is easy to assume that the story is complete, that there is nothing more to uncover. However, Harry Palmer’s extensive...
Promoting Illusions
The social and political circumstances of the time are certainly of considerable significance, but their importance for the weal or woe of the individual has been boundlessly overestimated in so far as they are taken for the sole...
Surrealist Games – The Exquisite Corpse
A piece of paper folded the number of times there are players, each player draws on their section, with a slight overlap on fold to give the next player a starting point, pass it on without the next player seeing your contribution, or any others. The surrealists...