Wwoof 04-05

WWOOF Visitors 2004-2005

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With Mia Rose Monique's daughter...	And Monique Laramée.	Mia Rose wanted another pose with Yumi.
Yumi received a personal visit of the Morin Heights fire truck with Ramona Craig, shown here with husband Glen Craig and her daughter.	With Didier, the charming owner of La Cafétière in Morin Heights.	With Ken MacDougall, showing her the box step.
Halloween Party at Mille Isles.	Yumi with the two pumpkins she carved.	Yumi with Firewoman Edith.
	The pumpkin on which Yumi carved I Love Canada.	The second pumpkin which was carved all around with slits.

Hisae Horibe Hisae arrived Sunday 11 September. Hisae stayed until October 11th, 2005.	Hisae had the opportunity to celebrate the Jewish New Year with my family, as well as the Canadian Thanksgiving with turkey and all the trimmings. Hisae was an exemplary visitor. We all enjoyed her company. We even learnt a few Japanese words and how to make Japanese Tea and Rice Balls. She also spent two days (October 1 & 2) with my friends Linda & Herb Hart. During her stay, Hisae planted bulbs for next spring, picked vegetables in the garden, transplanted perennials, and started raking the golden carpet of autumn leaves. She enjoyed seeing the famous Laurentian turning leaves and took many pictures. We had friends for supper frequently and Hisae was a great help in the kitchen too.	Hisae at the St. Jerome Museum of Contemporary Art September 11th, the day she arrived.
On Wednesday, September 14th, Hisae, Pascal and I, visited the exhibit Les Sculpturales in St-Sauveur. Hisae met quite a few artists. It was a hot day, so we took a dip in the lake afterwards. Hisae spent time with Pascal who was visiting with his grandfather at lake Dainava from Paris France. Pascal is studying Japanese and English.	Hisae with Tara, Baby Ethan and Rami Negev (my son and his family.) Hisae made friends with baby Ethan (my grandson) during our visit on September 18th.	When we drove back home on Sunday, September 18th, we saw a most wonderful sight of horses by the fence at dusk....but it was just too dark to photograph. On Tuesday, September 20th, after we visited the market in Lachute, Jean Jacques Pharand's studio and Charles Lefebvre, we tried to see the horses at the Old Maxwell farm again.
Hisae took this picture of the sunset on the way back from Montreal. She just loves sunsets.	Here she is with Eddy Eklove, who makes stone candles in Morin Heights, Saturday, September 24th.	Here is Hisae with my family on Jewish New Year's eve October 3rd, at Rami (my son) and Tara Negev's house, with Ken McDougall and Ron & Marlene Abileah (My brother and his wife).
Hisae came with me to the Monday afternoon women's club (September 26th) and created a beautiful felt arrangement, which she left me as a gift. Hisae with Shirley, Joan, Ellie, Eileen and Janice, at the Mille Isles Community Hall.	The card that Hisae made for us (October 11th) displays an origami creation of two paper cranes, as a symbol for peace. Thank you Hisae!	A picture taken Oct. 15th of Hisae's card, felt handiwork, flower arrangement in the metal vase and my own bouquet of nasturtiums and the squash centerpiece that we collected before thanksgiving. Hisae's Felt artwork: Hisae helped in collecting green peas from the garden before supper, so she made one from felt.
I took Hisae and Pascal for Happy hour at Moe's in St. Sauveur.	With Charles Lefebvre in front of his Stained Glass studio September 20th. We also visited Diana Boulay's studio (Wednesday, October 5) and took a drive (Friday, Sept. 29th) with Monique Laramée (also a Wwoof host) and her Wwoofer Tamsin (from England) to the Montpellier Center of Contemporary Art to see the Festival Recycl'Art annual exhibit.	With Jean Jacques Pharand at his studio, next to Hisae's favourite painting of his. She was fascinated by his sketch book. Jean-Jacques asked here which was her favourite sketch, tore it off, signed it and gave it to her as a souvenir.

Tammy Luckett	Tammy arrived August 28th, 2005 for a week. Here she is in the garden next to the flowers she liked. She helped with trimming and transplanting Indian Potatoes. Tammy was great for conversing in English with Pascal Parmentier.
Shalon Heffernan	Shalon came on August 1st, 2005 and spent a week. She was a great help in the garden and visited 20 artists studios with me. She also enjoyed swimming in Lake McDonald, Grace-Park Lake and a friend's Pond and dinner with my cousins and my friends Sharon and Peter. On Sunday, August 7th, we took her to old Montreal where she was planning to meet friends. She then went on to Northern Ontario and plans to visit other parts of Canada before she goes back to university. Before she left, she gave me a lovely poem she wrote for me. Thanks for everything Shalon!	Here is Shalon with her favourite artist of Route des Arts, Pierre Trahan.
Annette Job	Annette came for a one-day visit July 24th, to arrange for her stay at a later date. She stayed overnight and was a pleasure to have.

Basil Schur	Basil arrived Sunday, July 3rd and left Wednesday July 6th, 2005 early morning. Onwards through Thousand Islands in Ontario and driving through Canada to British Columbia. While here, we opened a web site for Basil and you can see his travel letters here: http://basilschur.tripod.com/index.html	After e-mail and telephone communications, Basil cheerfully arrived in his Honda Civic, and had many experiences to share. He was a pleasure to have as a guest. Both, my companion Ken McDougall and I already miss him. Basil is also a Wwoofing and Servas* host in Denmark, a small community in South coast of Western Australia, where he works for a community organization in environmental education and green employment programs. He was born and raised in Zimbabwe, but has been living in Australia for over 20 years. * Servas is an international organization fostering peace. I am also registered as a host in Canada http://canada.servas.org/
Basil left me one of his drawings as a souvenir. He did not sign it, so I scanned it and added his name at the bottom. Basil uses a technique of engraving/scratching designs over the paper and then applying oily pastels over. It creates lovely compositions, which he could transform into large size canvases at some point.	Basil with Michael. Basil had a chance to meet Tecia Werbowski (my cousin the author) and Michael Werbowski (her son) who shares Basil's environmental interests. Basil likes to take dips in the lake, so he sampled the water of our lakes. Basil brought his clarinet and played some Klezmer and classical tunes for us. Basil likes walking, reading and music. He immediately found John K. Grande's books about Land Art. Basil is a warm, giving person. He is really in tune with nature and enjoys life to the hilt. He mentioned that he would like to have a website so we built him one and from now on, he will input his travel letters here: http://basilschur.tripod.com/	Basil at the Chute on the North River Road, north of Lachute. Basil helped with weeding and mowing the garden. He visited St. Sauveur and Lachute with me, and met my colleague Charles Lefebvre at his stained glass studio. Basil bought a pair of running shoes at the Lachute Market.

Grace Lai	Visited me June 19-24, 25	I am sorry I did not have a chance to take a picture of Grace in the garden. She helped me mow the lawn and weed. A great visitor. Thank you Grace! And here is a picture of Grace taken with her camera during the Route des Arts Launch event at Mikes in Lachute on June 22nd.

Julia Jacklein from Ontario, June 3rd-6th. 2005.		Julia wanted to see some of Montreal. So we toured Old Montreal before heading up north. I found this corner and just had to take a shot (looking into the yard of Gibby's Restaurant, the old Inn).

Katja Risto (from Germany) came April 18th to May 18th, 2005 Katja was a great help with the preparations for Passover while it was raining cats & dogs outside, she even helped me do some proof-reading of addresses for our art tour advertisements.	Katja met some of my fellow artists in their studios, even joined us (after a meeting) for a pot-luck luncheon at Sheila Watson's place. Between the rainy periods, Katja did rake the garden. We went to Montreal, visited my son with his young family, drove to Lachute and Katja ate "Poutine" a real Québécois dish (Potato chips/fried with fresh cheddar cheese crumbs and gravy), we went out to lunches with Ken and ate out a few times. We ate lots of fruit and salads, Katja makes a great fruit salad! The weather improved just a few days before Katja left, so we were able to do some more work in the garden. When the perennial flowers we planted bloom, I shall send her photos.	Katja at the museum next to a dress from the 19th century.
Katja with Gilles Sanscartier who carves duck decoys.	Katja with George Neradilek who designs and sculpts wonderful wooden objects..	Katja with Sheila Watson and her sketchbook.
Katja talking to Sheila about her pottery.	Katja with Susie Desautels who already has a new collection of landscape oil paintings for this summer.	Of course we also visited Charles Lefebvre who showed Katja how he cuts glass for his stained glass artwork....somehow, I don't remember where I filed that photo.... Katja went to spend a few days with relatives in Montreal and in Ottawa and then on to a herb and strawberry farm in Ontario. She is planning to visit British Columbia and perhaps come back through here before flying back home in a few months. Where she will go back to university to complete an environmental study program.

Peter Audet (from Tasmania, Australia) visited April 15-18th, 2005	We went to the Museum of Contemporary art in St. Jerome and saw two interesting installations.
We went to the Lachute waterfall.	We visited Jean-Jacque Pharand's studio, after Peter read my write up about JJP. Then we visited Charles Lefebvre's studio.	Here they are with Samuël.

Nicola Harte visited March 29-31st, 2005.


Debbie Risborough visited November 2004		We went to Trois Rivière, visited Frédérique Guichard and Marcel Dubé. Saw Frédérique's print exhibit at Arts Le Sabord.
Debbie came with me to a Publicity Committee meeting at Barb Elmslie's place and I got her a small Demo watercolour by Barbara Elmslie.	Here is Debbie with Susan Lee and Barbara Elmslie.	Debbie came to help me at Dorshei Emet Synagogue Judaica Art Festival, November 19th and 20th.
We also went to visit Armand Destroismaisons. Here he is showing Debbie his latest stone sculpture "Maternité."	I gave Debbie one of my painting sets "Tied in Knots" Debbie painted this one for me (using on of the same scarves I used for my own paintings), and entitled it *"Discarded".*	Thanks for everything Debbie. It was great to have you here.

Doreen Schäbel	Doreen came to stay with me for about 10 days July 2004, she was Wwoofing with Monique Laramée and needed a place to stay between assignments. I invited her to stay at my place. She was such a delight that I immediately registered as a Wwoofing host, and wrote an article about the experience. Sorry I did not take more pictures during Doreen's stay.	Doreen was a great help in planting the garden and piling the wood. To see more about this experience look here. Doreen is now working in Germany towards her Law degree, apprenticing with a judge and now with a lawyer.

Colours and dimensions artwork may be slightly different from the original.