An inconvenient truth.



Warm and sunny, a beautiful, joyful day to be back at it. Here, in Niagara on the Lake, so many small squirrels frenetically, energetically leap from branch to bush. Even as they stand and nibble, their tiny hands up to their noses, it’s at hampster-spin speed. Today we took a short cut through the common. Small bushy tails rippled like waves against the still-green lawn. It’s almost unbelievable that here, temperatures will be double digit in the first weeks of January.

Last night another documentary, the call for us to take our collective heads out of the sand.



For us, the warming of the planet looms large, and no relief in sight. We can’t extend the exhibit away from the plates at all. We have no where Below Zero to store paintings already created. The tent is cramped. Everything taking longer to freeze. Designs have to be altered to compensate. But that’s what it’s all about -- as the work is about the natural processes of freezing and melting. Yet, it’s so ironically appropriate that we face these challenges. How can we be exempt, tho our work warns?



Last year on New Year’s Eve we gathered all together for the first time at the Mezouin for a spectacular dinner. The next night at dusk, we saw a procession of children come out of the forest with candles and ate gaufres at a huge bonfire in the center of the small town of Fenestrelle. Here are photos of our rollicking this January lst.Here with the costumed Father Christmas, Debi and The Don.



At the cenotaph on Queen Street, as the clock struck midnight.



It rained. We had champagne anyway.



Here, a representative of the next generation.



“If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. " (www.aninconvenient truth.com)