Lisa
@big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social
disappearing Ontario landscapes, cinq à sept, heritage, books, theatre, garden/flower report, kitchen chronicles, gallimaufry counter-programming
Look for the big red raincoat.
Elsewhere: IG harmony_in_brown_and_grey
Look for the big red raincoat.
Elsewhere: IG harmony_in_brown_and_grey
A tidy set of side doors at St. Andrews,Stratford marking the half way point of #Advent
#AdoorableThursday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas
#AdoorableThursday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A tidy set of side doors at St. Andrews,Stratford marking the half way point of #Advent
#AdoorableThursday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas
#AdoorableThursday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas
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Cornwall,ON heritage for Day 11. Residents living on the margins in First street, and craft coffeehouses and pastry shops on Second. Thrilled to find this period set of doors for Advent.
Cornwall,ON heritage for Day 11. Residents living on the margins in First street, and craft coffeehouses and pastry shops on Second. Thrilled to find this period set of doors for Advent.
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Cornwall,ON heritage for Day 11. Residents living on the margins in First street, and craft coffeehouses and pastry shops on Second. Thrilled to find this period set of doors for Advent.
Cornwall,ON heritage for Day 11. Residents living on the margins in First street, and craft coffeehouses and pastry shops on Second. Thrilled to find this period set of doors for Advent.
North End twofer.
Advent Day 10.
Advent Day 10.
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
North End twofer.
Advent Day 10.
Advent Day 10.
NO JUNK MAIL
Bluesky, you are a puzzle. All I want for Xmas is to post a simple picture--with ALT--without all the hoop jumping.
It's now Advent Day 9; couple of days are still in the ether. First-world problems.
Bluesky, you are a puzzle. All I want for Xmas is to post a simple picture--with ALT--without all the hoop jumping.
It's now Advent Day 9; couple of days are still in the ether. First-world problems.
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
NO JUNK MAIL
Bluesky, you are a puzzle. All I want for Xmas is to post a simple picture--with ALT--without all the hoop jumping.
It's now Advent Day 9; couple of days are still in the ether. First-world problems.
Bluesky, you are a puzzle. All I want for Xmas is to post a simple picture--with ALT--without all the hoop jumping.
It's now Advent Day 9; couple of days are still in the ether. First-world problems.
Cheers, good people.
December 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Cheers, good people.
Who is minding the door on Day 6.
Montreal. 🪪
Montreal. 🪪
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Who is minding the door on Day 6.
Montreal. 🪪
Montreal. 🪪
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My friend works on a Great Lakes freighter and was born just hours after the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. He wrote something about it on his site (where he often writes about life on the big freshwater lakers).
The Mighty Fitz & Me -
“The lake [Superior] is huge and cold and blue and treacherous. It can sink freighters, drown people. In a wind the waves roll in with the crash of oceans.” Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye Approximately...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My friend works on a Great Lakes freighter and was born just hours after the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. He wrote something about it on his site (where he often writes about life on the big freshwater lakers).
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Goodnight, sweet dreams, don't let the little devils hammer too hard at your hippocampus while you sleep, or roast you slowly in the night hours..
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Goodnight, sweet dreams, don't let the little devils hammer too hard at your hippocampus while you sleep, or roast you slowly in the night hours..
Knocking on the door of Hickson United for Advent Day 4.
Serving the community of Hickson for 117 years, the church closed up shop owing to the dwindling congregation, and has sat empty since 2019.
Serving the community of Hickson for 117 years, the church closed up shop owing to the dwindling congregation, and has sat empty since 2019.
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Knocking on the door of Hickson United for Advent Day 4.
Serving the community of Hickson for 117 years, the church closed up shop owing to the dwindling congregation, and has sat empty since 2019.
Serving the community of Hickson for 117 years, the church closed up shop owing to the dwindling congregation, and has sat empty since 2019.
A busy few weeks: car accident, family surgery, year-end office business. Time to get festive. Stratford, ON.
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A busy few weeks: car accident, family surgery, year-end office business. Time to get festive. Stratford, ON.
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
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Advent Day 3.
Quiet contemplation of this little garage and its door. Curious to see if it survives the house renovation.
Quiet contemplation of this little garage and its door. Curious to see if it survives the house renovation.
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Advent Day 3.
Quiet contemplation of this little garage and its door. Curious to see if it survives the house renovation.
Quiet contemplation of this little garage and its door. Curious to see if it survives the house renovation.
Down the alley for Advent Day 2.
December 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Down the alley for Advent Day 2.
Looking out on your garden reports with envy. Love the late November glow accompanying your bouquet harvests.
Here under another overcast day and the crunch of 5" of snow.
A season of plant decimation thanks to the 🦨. Hoping for a critter-free garden, next season. Planning begins now.
Here under another overcast day and the crunch of 5" of snow.
A season of plant decimation thanks to the 🦨. Hoping for a critter-free garden, next season. Planning begins now.
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Looking out on your garden reports with envy. Love the late November glow accompanying your bouquet harvests.
Here under another overcast day and the crunch of 5" of snow.
A season of plant decimation thanks to the 🦨. Hoping for a critter-free garden, next season. Planning begins now.
Here under another overcast day and the crunch of 5" of snow.
A season of plant decimation thanks to the 🦨. Hoping for a critter-free garden, next season. Planning begins now.
Who says you cannot wear pink after Labour Day.
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Who says you cannot wear pink after Labour Day.
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Resting in the shadows of high rises, hydro corridors, and mulberry trees—not far from his home in Hamilton’s Rosedale—Ernest returned from war in 1945, suffering poor health until his death at age 34 in the old Gage Ave military hospital.
I hope he found some joy after the war.
I hope he found some joy after the war.
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Resting in the shadows of high rises, hydro corridors, and mulberry trees—not far from his home in Hamilton’s Rosedale—Ernest returned from war in 1945, suffering poor health until his death at age 34 in the old Gage Ave military hospital.
I hope he found some joy after the war.
I hope he found some joy after the war.
Last week's late bloom now nestled under a deep snow drift. I was lulled by October's charms into thinking jacket weather would last. Take care out on the roads, good people. #FlowerReport
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Last week's late bloom now nestled under a deep snow drift. I was lulled by October's charms into thinking jacket weather would last. Take care out on the roads, good people. #FlowerReport
Reading reccs for remembrance--in part--of WW I and II.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reading reccs for remembrance--in part--of WW I and II.
A hard read, and I don't know how I would have responded were I to have been in the audience. Still fresh and raw being published five years after the conviction.
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A hard read, and I don't know how I would have responded were I to have been in the audience. Still fresh and raw being published five years after the conviction.
Ramble: Leeds & Grenville
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November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ramble: Leeds & Grenville
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#WindowsOnWednesday
