Hilary Anne & Alexandra Elizabeth  - Royal Hudson - 1979

Even if I begin my day facing a sunny one, by the time in late afternoon it seems like it is the late afternoon of the day before. At around 7:30 I loudly say “treats” and Niño and Niña perk up their ears and run upstairs. On the bed on their little blue blanket that Rosemary did what I do now, I give their dental treats which they love.

Queen Elizabeth Park

Then it is time to perhaps make a mug of tea and take a bath. I get into bed and in these last evenings I have been enjoying Jorge Luís Borges’s Prólogos con un prólogo de prólogos.

A few years ago Hilary knowing that I take tub baths and, like Jorge Luís Borges, I read in them, gave me a special tray that I can use to read books or the newspaper while having toast and tea (or soup). The tray collapsed a few days ago when I moved suddenly and Borges took a bath. But I can still read it!

Today I decided not to become my usual morose human, comforted by two cats, but to somehow do something that might cheer me up. These photographs, of our two daughters taken before 1980, when we lived in Burnaby on Springer Ave make me smile. Those were the days when I would go to a U-Frame it Store on Kingsway and I came up with the idea of using mats that mirrored the colours in the photographs. These framed photographs look pretty good if you consider that I printed them 42 years ago in my Burnaby darkroom.

Queen Elizabeth Park

I will put up this blog and hope that tonight when I get into bed I just might be in a more optimistic mood and look forward to what tomorrow will bring.

Royal Hudson