Taking My Temporary Roommate Out For A Walk On A Nice Sun Afternoon In Her Stylish Harness And Leash.

Its Your Festival on at Gage Park this weekend. Many vendors, food music and midway. Its a hot day but come on out to enjoy it. Splash pad and Fountain are operating to cool off. #hamont #itsyourfestival #gagepark #food #music #crafts #Midway #canadaday (at Hamilton Gage Park)

James St N artcrawl. Another talented local artist Celyn Church who makes wonderful stained glass lighthouse and panels - among other things. I'm pleased to say to bought one of her panels for the living room. @celynartsco #hamont #artcrawl #discoverhamilton #jamesstreetnorth #jamesstreetnorthartcrawl (at James Street North Art Crawl)

One-night workshop at Siteline studio tonight was making paper lanterns with Hitoko Okada. This was my end result. Very geometric decorating - not surprising for an engineering type. Thanks to @centre3_ and a grant from the Ontario Trillium fund. @sitelinescentre3 #arttherapy #artforms #paperlantern (at Artforms)

A couple of sketches from tonight's #sitelines art drop-in. @centre3_ @sitelinescentre3 . A great free art environment for those with lived experience of mental illness. Art therapy is a great way to calm the mind. #arttherapy #mindfullnessart #mentalhealth (at Sitelines) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzrCE0KnWzV/?igshid=1wzosumrdb1bg

Swan watching over its last egg. I went down to Bayfront Park/Pier 4 to check on the status of the 3 nesting swan pairs in that area. I knew one pair had already abandoned it's nest. I saw that a 2nd pair at the north end of Bayfront had left their nest with 1 egg remaining (out of 6 or 7 originally). This swan was the last hold out at pier 4 near the Leander boat club. It only had 1 egg remaining out of 5. That egg is also likely not going to hatch. All of the swan eggs should have hatched about 3 weeks ago. Too much rain and cold weather early probably caused the eggs to fail. Sad but it happens. Fortunately other pairs around the harbour have been more successful. #hamont #discoverhamilton #bayfrontpark #pier4 #swans #photography (at Pier 4 - Bayfront)

The sun finally came out a bit and the temp rose a little above freezing, so I decided to get out for a hike. Went down to Bayfront Park and the Waterfront Trail. The breeze was chilly however the sun felt nice. Stopped by the nesting mute swans that are there each year. My friend Janine had posted that they had laid their 1st 2 eggs. I was curious how.more had been deposited since they take 2 or 3 weeks to lay the full clutch. Fortunately mom didn't make me wait too long. I saw she had at least 9 eggs so far as she stood up after preening and turning the eggs. Not sure if she is finished with laying. The photos were only taken with my camera phone but the eggs are clear in some of the images. #muteswans #nestingswans #swaneggs #bayfrontpark #waterfronttrail #hamont (at Hamilton, Ontario)

A print I made tonight at @centre3_ as part of their @sitelinescentre3 Sitelines program. Traced from a photo onto acrylic plate. Then inked and then pressed on to paper. Interesting process. Thanks to Gabe for his instruction and help. I'm pleased with the results of this first attempt. And thanks to @ontrillium for their grant to help make these programs possible. #printmaking #hawkowl #Sitelines #arttherapy #hamont #Centre3 #ontrillium (at Centre3)

Experimenting with a new toy. #lensball #pier4 #hamont #sunset #sailing (at Pier 4 Park)

Day 2 of my welding course. Starting to look the part. And got some welds in. Photo is one of my earlier attempts at welding a couple of straight lines (1st assign) - clearly need more practise. Finally got 3 good welds in for assign. Then started practising other basic welds including joining 2 or more pieces together. Then finished it off by welding my name. May be this will become a new art form for me. Lol. #welding #weldingcourse #cityschool #mohawkcollege #skillsupgrading (at Mohawk Stoney Creek Campus)

My clay sculpting of an Easter Island Maoi (Rapa Nui) is hand-finished. Now to engrave some of the subtle artwork and paint it before firing. Main shaping and firing done at HARRRP, fine detail artwork will be done at home with Dremel tools. #arttherapy #harrrp #hamont (at HARRRP)