The fourth picture is a little confusing. In 2013 I had traveled to Bali for Christmas vacation but I will post some winter pictures of where I am now soon! 

three picture from Pauingassi and one from Bali when I was on a holiday

Presently I am living in a very remote northern Manitoba location and I am teaching Grade 1 and 2 full time and doing some art work on the weekends. The temperature is much the same as Winnipeg where I also have a home. The snow here is quite beautiful. I love the sound of my boots making crunching noises as I walk and I hear their echo following me and making me believe there is someone close behind me when actually there is no one.The snow is clean and does not have the dirt and grime that city streets have when the plow builds hills of scraped up snow and the warmth of the pavement from cars melts the snow and makes brown slush.
The community here is very small and numbering about 600 and the complete opposite of when I was living in Dhaka, Bangladesh and their streets were overflowing with pedestrians and rickshaws and wagons and vehicles of every sort imaginable. Yet in both places the people I meet as I walk to the  chosen store are polite and courteous.Of course there are only two stores here- the Northern and Dojos.

Good morning from the beautiful centre of Canada-Winnipeg, Manitoba.The summer has certainly pleased me because I am happy with high temperatures and it has rained  so much at odd times that the city is full of intense green foliage and a wide variety of blooms coloring our city, I live on a street with many trees on the boulevards so it is like walking down an avenue of arched branches formed a canopy and at night there is mystery and soft lights shining from homes. I live close to the down town so i can walk a lot and frequently i walk 10,000- 15,000 steps per day.
lately I have been painting buffalo themes.

Obama

the networks have declared that Obama has won the american election-sounds great to me

travelling soon

Feeling excited about by new life in a foreign country but I will explain later. I started packing and I found a wonderful person to stay in my home in Winnipeg and pay a reduced rent and take care of my beauties Mac and Sugar. the downsize is missing my beautiful grandchildren and of course David and Deidre.

The internet is so frustrating. it says that my password does not work and then I receive a text to change my password and then when I use the new password it says the user name does not work .Then I have to go to another mail site to get the proper user name and it keeps going in a  neverending circle when I should be sleeping away and dreaming of unicorns prancing in a magical forest and a bullmoose wading in a pool beside a beaver lodge.

big kiwi

big kiwi, a photo by tumataj on Flickr.

kiwi

kiwi brain, a photo by tumataj on Flickr.

great photo

Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis

Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis, a photo by annkelliott on Flickr.

just sooo beautiful

one of my favorite spots-Whangarie

Rush Limbaugh- I wonder what your sexual history is like-never mind I do not want to know- universal health care in Canada does not pick and choose patients who are acceptable according to one's religious beliefs- how would any government do that -it would be morally wrong to do that and it would cost millions of dollars more to configure all the wee bits and pieces and this and that and then lack of contraception would lead to higher costs in producing children that are not looked after succssfully and more abortions would take place- another issue completley- the young people of today are smart enough to use contraceptives and prevent unwanted pregnancies and it is usually the smart women who do this- usually birth control pills are paid for by the individual in most cases and I think covered in the employment health care insurance ... but for a woman to appear in congress and ask that the birth control plans be included in a health care package is most certainly an acceptable question and concern and should be respected- and I am glad she got so much support

Our winter this year was not really a winter-or not the one I like-hardly any snow but this hoar frost outside my apartment window was interesting. Now today the temperature is quite mild again. The snow that had arrived is disappearing again.

On March 18th I am leaving on a trip to New Zealand for a month--  also a free agent to do as I deem fit.

I am writing a children's book as I travel.

getting Aquilla the beaver ready to be sent to children book publishing companies

getting Aquilla the beaver ready to be sent to children book publishing companies:

recent ceramic works done downtown Winnipeg, Art city on broadway

hello to me

Thinking of walking to Superstore today because the walk would be good for me.

My Great West Life money ended on my birthday-November 12th, 2011!!

I am learning to manage my budget on a pretty skinny pension plan- I recall those days when I would receive notice of a superanuation payment coming my way -did I want to cash it in or save it in a pension plan??My mid twenty self said yae money to spend- oh well I guess I enjoyed myself at the time.I am pretty sure the youth of today are doing the same thing if they even have a pension contribution through their employment