Frozen
Frozen. Litterally. It started a couple of days before Christmas. The temperature rose to minus one and it started to rain, and rain, and rain. During the night, it froze. When this occurs, it’s usually followed by power failures. We were lucky that our street...
My spooky photomontages
Cut, paste and draw on! The world of Marikajo
“Whaleful” weekend
The little lake has been emptied in preparation for the winter to come. Our landlord told us that he sometimes transforms this space into an ice ring… Well, my skates are already hung in the staircase! The weekend has been whaleful. I painted two versions of the...
Snow
A very thin layer of white snow was covering the ground when we woke up yesterday. I can’t wait for the first “real” snow, the one that will stay until next spring. It will be our first winter here, quite a change with Montreal. This is what the last...
Mushrooms
This photo was taken in the Réserve faunique La Vérendrye. It looks like little pearls of pine gum or is it a mushroom that can perspire coffee? That would be like heaven for my boyfriend, a combo of two of his favourite things in the world. Delicate mushroooms found...
The art of napping
May I introduce you to Roupie Les Mitaines (Roupie AKA “The Mittens”). Roupie sleeps at least 18 hours a day. Between two naps, he will eat, play and purrr. Not being gifted for the art of sleeping, I sometimes get jealous of him. He makes it look so easy!...
Upside down
The reflection in the little lake is really beautiful at this time of the year…
Cleaning up the vegetable garden
Shadows
Acrylic and ecoline on paper The Shadows in music… This was filmed in the 60’s. The resolution is bad but the simplicity and the lighting of the video are quite nice. Shadow art, most of it made out of trash!
Autumn is almost here
The next pictures were taken a while ago near the Mauricie national park. We visited this patch of land with one of our friends who was looking for a place to build her house. Some years later, she now lives in a beautiful little eco-house, surrounded by all that...
