Spoiler Alert

I'm still not watching the Olympics, but, really, who needs to? There is SO MUCH coverage, I feel I've watched it all, even the sports I don't understand, like artistic gymnastics and dressage.

I know about the badminton players who were suspended from the games because they were trying to win a medal.  I know about how the US women's gymnastics team performed so well they made all the other teams cry.  And I know about the Chinese swimmer who also performed well, but this time the crybaby was a US swim coach who immediately jumped to the conclusion that her performance was due to drugs as opposed to the fact that she has been in training since she was four months old.

And in other sports news, if anyone outside of Toronto has been wondering what ever happened to all those blue seats in Maple Leaf Gardens, take a look at the shot on the right.

William Ledingham Clark, 1928-1985

August 2nd, 2012 marked the 27th year since my father Bill Clark died.  One of my cousins found some old Kodachrome slides with these shots of Bill and sent them to me.

The one on the right's from the early sixties.  We're visiting my grandmother for Christmas.  Dad's wearing his Christmas cracker paper hat and getting set for a postprandial libation.  I think that's my grandmother's coat he's wearing, but I don't know why.

The shot below is from the early 1970s.  Dad's standing in the front yard of our house in Edmonton and he's holding our standard bred male dachshund who bit me more times than any other dog in the world.
























The shot on the lower right is of Bill in dress uniform (he served in the Canadian Armed Forces, Air Force) with my grandmother in front of her house in Burnaby, B.C., circa 1980.

Allan Gardens Update

For a month or so, the plaza in front of the Allan Gardens greenhouse was home to an upright piano, plunked there by Play Me I'm Yours.  I got one shot of two (see if you can find the second one) kids playing with the "Caymans" piano.

Check out the whole concept here: http://streetpianos.com/toronto2012/

The Allan Gardens aboriginal artwork extravaganza is getting pretty close to completion.  All the works are great, but I give extra points to the artists who have embraced the whole graffiti thing.  It seems so appropriate.  

All you Canadians enjoy your long weekend!  And have a great week!

Karen