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Dear friends, I know many of you from old as members of the original wetcanvas forum. Though the forum lost many members in the move to...

Then maybe you'd like to own it. :) We're retiring from the forum business and are open to handing Creative Spark over to anyone here...

Listening to Mahler’s 2nd Symphony “The Resurrection”. I must say this album cover strikes me as a bit arrogant… placing the name of the...

I just started digging out. I spent 45minutes clearing a path around the car and then brushing the 10” of snow off of the windows...

Honestly, Schumann… and Mendelssohn were never among my favorites. I prefer the earlier Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert…...

We were at sub-zero° F yesterday with the snow really starting around 12 AM Sunday morning. We got an average of 9-10” in the area...

-21 F this morning .. storm has not reached here yet.

We are -17 F and heading down with high winds and snow heading our way. We had no power last storm, a week ago, for over 36 hours. It...

The hot water tank spilled out water on my basement floor, it got under the furnace, no damage done but I need to wait until Monday or...

Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is not only a beautiful work but also a fascinating creation historically… one of those “what if?” moments. At...

if we look at almost any artistic era we will find a number of elements influenced the innovations of the time. Impressionism was...

Is that an electric sharpener? I need to go down to my basement and find my pencils, paper, and my electric sharpener. I really need to...

This is being described as potentially the worst winter storm in a decade or more. It is impacting nearly half of the country Last I...

What I am up to right now is trying to stay warm. It is currently -4° F ( -20 Celsius). 🥶

The video experiment with speed-reading was fun… but considering the amount of poetry I read… as well as lush prose… the sound of the...