The Glass Character
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Pure magic: gifs from Piper Spit

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I love making gifs, in full knowledge that they don't always  run so well. They can be slow or jerky for the first thirty secon...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

A bird in the hand: mystery songbird at Piper Spit

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Later identified as a tree swallow, but can't they come up with a more lyrical name than that?! This guy's song was intoxicating...

Blackbird singing. . . on Piper Spit

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I can't describe to you the feeling of having this handsome devil fly right down to me without any prompting. I know I shouldn't b...

Blackbird, fly: magic on Burnaby Lake

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I was astounded when this guy flew right down to me. Obviously he has no fear, which is not the best thing for him. But it's the bes...

Cat Licking Vacuum Cleaner

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Treat 'em rough and make 'em like it: MEOW!

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Monday, May 30, 2016

How do you spell Mississauga?

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You know that whatever may be going on in the world, at any moment, I can make a gif out of it. This was what went on today in a park...

Catfall

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NOTE. This is one of my gif animations, though I have to admit the images were sort of there already, borrowed from...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

NO PETS OR SMOKING: a Vancouver dream house

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Saturday, May 28, 2016

Prawn killer! Thumb splitter! Must be the mantis shrimp

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This is the picture that started it all. I think. God knows what I was actually looking for. Oh, I know. I was helping my granddau...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Things I used to hang around my neck

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No, really. All of these. And this isn't the half. There is also the cloisonne cross from the Vatican gift store, the gold Ce...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

So who IS my favourite character in The Wizard of Oz?

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I found myself writing this mini-essay in response to someone who posted something on Facebook about The Wizard of Oz. It's somet...

The best idea George Lucas ever stole from anyone!

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So who's original any more? Who makes mega-billions of bucks on someone else's idea(s)?  In the second gif, whic...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Facebook helpline: war of the trolls

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Ah! God. I never learn. I keep on trying to find out things. When one is involved with Facebook, it is better not to know. I have N...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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