Edward at Beaman’s World tagged me aeons ago on My Favourite Things. At last, here they are!

What is your favourite time of day?

The Magic or Purple Hour, when the horizon is winning its race towards the sun. A fun time for taking photographs.

Day of Week

Saturday. Friday if they ever grant us a three-day weekend. Don’t worry - I’m not holding my breath! Sundays make me existentially anxious. I’m working on it.

Season of the Year

Autumn. I love to watch the lush scenery in flux, morphing throughout the shortening daylight before retreating into it’s dullish stasis for the Winter.

Everything’s on fire in Autumn and the wind stirs the fallen leaves (and everything else!) into these picture-perfect frenzies. And I still love watching maple seeds fall in their downward spirals, looking like little kamikaze helicopters. The best part is once they’ve reached the ground, when you can toss them up into the air again for even more helicoptery wonderment.

Holiday

Hallowe’en was always my favourite, though as a child I’d often get so worked up with nervous excitement that I’d make myself sick and miss it altogether. D’oh.

Dressing up as anything you want (within certain parental reason, heheh) was always a blast, and I would have eaten candy all the time, had I been allowed!

What is are your favourite songs?

My favourite songs are Mercy Misses You by Matthew Good, St. Lawrence River by David Usher, Black Heart Rodeo, Bloodless and Line of Fire by Tom McRae, Sing me to Sleep by Morrissey, Lovers in a Dangerous Time by Bruce Cockburn and Midnight Blue by Lou Gramm. Ooh, and Everyone Will Crawl by the Charlie Sexton Sextet. What a mouthful.

Err, I have too many favourite songs, hahah.

What is your favourite film?

That would be the Last Unicorn or Flashback.

Who is your favourite philosopher?

Hmm. Which one do I dislike the least? I’ll let you know when there is one! Actually, my friend Pines has always been my favourite philosopher, so I’ll say she is until further notice!

What are your political views?

I’m a bit of a loose cannon politically, I guess. My views aren’t yet as self-defined as they could (should) be so I always balk when asked about them. They’ve definitely never been much in line with any of the major parties who have vied for our votes currently or in the past. “When in doubt, go Green” has worked a couple of times in the past. Not that I’m terribly passionate about the Green Party, either. Or politics.

I’ve been called some kind of libertarian by a friend in e-mail before. He used a qualifier that I’m not remembering off the top of my head.

Don’t they have an easier, perhaps litmus-type test for determining these things?! Ouch - it’s a good thing I checked litmus test on Wiki (I couldn’t remember if there was an ‘h’ in it and I already had Wiki open). I had no idea about this actual (metaphorical) political litmus test. Politics, schmolitics.

Beaches

There’s a beach I’d like to visit again someday that was either on St. Simon’s Island or in a nearby city/town in Georgia. We were there just after Hurricane Hugo tore through it and it was still beautiful, if a bit chilly, cluttered and sobering.

My favourite would have to be the one outside the line of beachfront properties (one of which we inhabited during a week-long stay a couple of years ago) along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico in a small fishing village on the Yucatan peninsula. If the beach had a name, I wasn’t aware of it, but it’s not far from the busier, more tourist-y beach at Progreso. If you walk down the beach towards Progreso, you can see the cruiselines coming in at Progreso. I miss walking along it with my partner and being awestruck by the contrasting brilliance of the night sky.

Those are two of the three beaches I can remember having been to. I’m not counting any of the kind of creepy, so-called beaches you find around Ottawa. Nor the ones visited when I was a baby or toddler - I only have photos of those times, not memories.

Flower

Anything alive and blue. Blue roses, if they ever perfect them. When I got my very own blue rose bush as a kid, the roses that came up were definitely not blue. They were pretty, but more of a light purply-pink. They probably have better blue breeds of roses today.

Fruit

Strawberries, red grapes or kiwi.

Snack

Oh boy. Those Yves veggie pizza pepperoni slices. I could eat those all day. Along with my previously-mentioned candyland fantasies, heh. Mmm, and some nice Edam cheese.

Food

I really love mustard. And anything that’s not meat, fish or poultry. And Mom’s (or is it Dad’s?!) baked Mac and Cheese. So cultured, I know!

Restaurant

The Green Door please!

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Since this reply to Beaman’s tag is so stale, I won’t tag anyone else, unless they’d like to be. In which case, I grant you mystical self-tagging capabilities!

I hope fellow Canadians (and anyone else currently in Canada!) had a great time celebrating Canada Day and that you guys downstairs are gearing up for equally fantastic Independence Day festivities! (I escaped the zoo of people for a zoo of ‘exotic’ animals!)

My thoughts and sympathies to anyone directly affected by the recent violence in London and Glasgow. What horror. . .