I didn't manage to get to "Canada Blooms" this year - so you're just going to have to settle for some left over photos from last year ....

 

 

... and a duck ....

... besides the dinosaurs, twelve good reasons to go to

the Royal Ontario Museum when it's just too darn cold to do anything else!

 

Mercedes-Benz coffin, Pobi Asawa, Ghana, 2009

 

 

Untitled, Mumbai Inda, 2002

 

 

Statue fragment of Cleopatra VII, 60-30 BC

 

 

Mithras (Persian Zoroastrianism)

 

 

Corinthian style jug, circa 620 BC

 

 

Rococo candlesticks, circa 1749 - 1760

 

 

Gold coin, 99.999% pure gold bullion, face value $1 million

 

 

"Dream Cloud", carving in boulder opal, Australia

 

 

Cat vase, porcelain, circa 1980

 

 

 

Sitting Bull's war bonnet, Hunkpapa Lakota, Northern Plains, circa 1875

 

 

Lokapala (guardian figure), glazed earthenware, Tang dynasty, circa 695-725

 

 

Striding Lion, baked clay (terra cotta), Neo-Babylonian, circa 580 BC

 

I keep looking out the window hoping that this time, it's spring!!!