A beautiful winter wonderland. (When you don't have to be out in it, of course.)

"Half an hour of exercise per day is good for you." "Fifteen minutes of exercise a day is beneficial for..." "Ten minutes of exercise a day will help with..." "Just five minutes of exercise a day will..." "We give up, maybe just lift your hand from your phone sometimes."

Very kind gift from ⁦Adam Montgomery⁩ - monument “Acadian Burying Ground up to 1755”, in what is today Wolfville - postcard ca 1900 - I don’t think this monument still exists - probably what was Saint-Charles-des-Mines? Assumes pride of place beside Joey Smallwood.

The Toronto Postcard Club's 41st postcard sale is just a week away. Hope to see some of you there! Here's the current show card *and* the card for the TPC's 1987 show - the first one I could have gone to as a (then) new Torontonian, had I known about it or cared about postcards.

Just finished Enthusiasms and Loyalties by Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social. Quite an interesting book, and engagingly written. I enjoyed learning about how feelings and emotions were cultivated, and affected by, larger religious and political events in the Enlightenment Atlantic. 👍👍

A light snow and a backyard visit from some beautiful creatures a few minutes ago.

A wonderful sight to see when you look out the window first thing in the morning. #SomethingBeautiful

In addition to being fun as hell to watch while it does its magic, the lid also becomes the bowl when it's finished popping the popcorn.

Many of us talk about writing a novel one day, few of us actually do it. So congratulations to Sonia Nicholson on her first novel! @SandsPressPub

“To me, there’s something special about being able to stand at a person’s gravestone and gravesite,” historian Adam Montgomery tells @mr_lois_lane. “It’s not just reading it on a paper. It brings to mind that these were living, breathing people.” tvo.org/article/why-th…

Historian Rochelle Bush and Adam Montgomery are restoring Black freedom seekers’ graves in Victoria Lawn Cemetery in St. Catharines. She spoke to Jeyan Jeganathan about the importance of honouring and protecting historic Black burial grounds in Ontario. youtu.be/wYbl5xM-rNg

A little cup of floral joy. #SomethingBeautiful

"I want dirt; I want chaos; I want, above all, mystery. I want to be able to step into a place and have the sense that there I'll find a book, as yet unknown to me, which to some degree will change my life."

"Scarcity and value have never intrigued me as much as the improbable direction things go."

"I have not yet come upon any instances of homicide over rare books although it is a common enough theme in crime fiction. I have, on the other hand, seen murder in people's eyes. Where books are involved feelings run high."

What a nice surprise to get this new book by Sayed Tabatabai, M.D. in the mail yesterday. Congratulations, Sayed, your amazing insights have provided me with deep, meaningful thoughts on numerous occasions.

Haven't posted in awhile. Here's the Lego Farmers Market Van, which is pretty awesome.