MARILYN CORNWELL

  The expression "Nailed it" seems perfect to me.  It has visual and auditory expression - hammer going up and coming down with a ...

  From such an innocent beginning in Old English gang "a going, journey, way, passage". Old Norse Gangr was "a group of men, ...

  It was the Ontario Lily Show yesterday at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.  RBG is again under renewal.  I can’t help but contra...

  What is a slip 'n slide?  Maybe a water slide.  I've never been on a water slide.  They came on the scene after my childhood.   Th...

Our two favourite political dynasties in Canada have been in the news on the topic of racism.  The most recent is Ben Mulroney.  He made the...

Our winter months' celebration days are colour-coded.  Christmas is red and green, Valentine's Day is red, St. Patrick's Da...

I was at the Optometrist yesterday and I wondered about the eye. He told me that the human eye has the fastest metabolic rate in the hu...

Birds are outside singing beautifully, and warm with their feathers.  Most primates have fur or something that keeps them warm (e.g. fat...

WHAT ARE THE FUN FACTS TODAY? This comes from  thefactsite.com :  "If you’re bored and have ten minutes to kill, then why not che...

These water reflections were taken a few years go at the Missouri Botanical Garden.  This is a vast botanical garden and research centre ...

So today we wonder how frogs and princes got associated together.  This wonderful frog was in the pond of a garden we toured in May.   ...

Now that summer is here, it is time for road work, garden construction and other fix-it projects.   Benny's big truck with the bob c...

Dahlia Season...It's here and the flowers are as big and beautiful as last year.  Here's the start of dahlia portraits.  Two very di...

I went to Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia, PA on the weekend.  We stayed with friends in Reading, PA about an hour away.  With the head,...