Father's Day 2019

It's our first Father's Day without Dad, and it's hard. Here's something Mom found online a few months ago: a photograph of the church and manse in Rocanville, Saskatchewan. Dad was born in that manse in 1942. Miss you, Dad. 

This Is Not The World's Largest Oil Can

Here I am posing in front of the world's largest oil can in my dad's birthplace, Rocanville, Saskatchewan, sometime in 1981. For some reason the composition of this photo reminds me of something Dali or Magritte might have painted, so I used Photoshop's filtering tools to clumsily transform it into something painterly:

Is this somewhat surreal, or am I crazy?

Robert Stone Woods

Here is my great-grandfather, Robert Stone Woods (1857-1939), probably taken in Rocanville, Saskatchewan, sometime in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Great-Granddad was a blacksmith and sired twelve children; his youngest, William James Woods, was dad's father. I didn't retouch this photo very much at all, wanting to preserve the natural sepia tone and other slight imperfections. Why is there a cat sitting on his shoulder? I don't know, but the look works for him.