Mary Soderstrom's Blog

 Took this a couple of year ago, but the woods look like this now.  Incandescent trees!

 Evi on the hunt for a bee! Luckily for it and for her, she didn't catch it.

 Note the harness.  She's an inside cat who has learned to love her harness because it means she can go outside.  

 Pleased to announce that Dundurn Press will be publishing my novel The Last Bridge in May 2027. For those who'd like to know more, check out my short story "Ketamine" which Queen's Quarterly published in their Summer 2025 number.  https://www.queensu.ca/quarterly/

 A young friend went running to his mother one morning this week, shouting "Come quick, the toilet is smoking!"

 What she saw:

  

 Nothing but hot weather and sunshine around here for the last little bit.  So far the native plants are doing all right, but we need rain!

Hot and dry, and the flowers, if they've been watered regularly, are blooming.  This pleases the bees, seen here enjoying my friend Monique's lovely garden. 
 

 

 
I see I haven't posted for a while.  Been busy with a number of things, including getting this cat to behave!  Actually she's a sweetheart and has been relatively easy to convince that she should follow the house rules.  True, she's awake when the sun rises, but then so am I usually.  And she always purrs when she comes to sit on my chest and inquire about what the day will be like.

One of the reasons we got a cat was to try to avoid furture invasions by mice. I think this video suggests that she should be more than a match for a mouse who might try to insinuate its way into our menage. 
 
 

Evlampia Siberian Glory joined our household Saturday July 5.  A sweet, three month old Siberian kitten who supposed to be hypoallergenic.  So far so good.
 

 This is l'église St-Pierre in Chartres, but down the hill from the cathedral.  The church was built in the 12th century, even before the cathedral.  I find it amazing that such a massive structure depends on the buttresses for equilibrium.  Truly a combination of the static and the dynamic. 

 Enjoying the flowers while we can.  I understand that picking roses and trashing the ones that have blasted on the bush will encourage more blooms.

 

We shall see...