Planned as a week of cycling and a week of hiking, interspersed with less athletic ventures in southern Spain, it got a little off track and the cycling was sacrificed to Marilyn's back injury. Otherwise a grand trip. Click on Córdoba's La Mesquita for more.

Amsterdam, bicycling from Amsterdam through Belgium to Paris while living on the barge Elodie, Paris, the Brittany coast, Mont St. Michel and more.
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Algonquin with painting friends, then Toronto with granddaughter Mei and her equally charming parents. Spring finally comes to the Great White North and warmth comes in many guises.

A review of some of the highlights of last year and a wish for a happy and fulfilling 2009. It's a substitute for the Christmas cards I didn't write this year. Click on the image at left for details.

A trip with Marilyn Paterson to Sicily first, on our own, and then a walking trip along the Amalfi Coast with 29 others. Click on the image at left for full details.

Morocco:
April 22 to May 6, 2008

There's a report on the trip in words and pictures, broken into chapters and topics which you can get to by clicking on the picture at the left.

It, incidentally, was shot on one of the streets of the Kasbah Oudaïa in Rabat, a stall selling oranges.

Fresh orange juice was one of the delights of the trip, and I love the colour contrasts.

Fabulous Landscape is four feet square, inspired by a small black and white photo in the Guardian illustrating the war in Afghanistan.
I was struck by the amazingly beautiful geography of the natural world and the manmade vehicles of war invading it.
UNB has acquired it for its permanent collection.

If you click on the picture it will take you to my paintings index, where I have posted some of my new series of studies of windows.