Scribbles by the Roadside

“Wherever it is spoken by the fireside, or sung by the roadside, or carved upon the lintel, appreciation of the arts that a single mind gives unity and design to, spreads quickly when its hour is come.”

W.B. Yeats, “By the Roadside”

Gerard writing in the Pewter Room at the Fleece Inn, in England

See Gerard’s The World Doesn’t Want You to Be a Writer scribble below, from March 10, 2025

Gerard at the Breakwater in his hometown of Placentia, Newfoundland

See Gerard’s The Road scribble below, from August 2024.

 

Gerard absorbed in his writing

See Gerard’s Eternal Spring scribble below, from March 2024.

  • Eternal Spring—pg 1

 

Planting our bur oak—one of the last old-growth species in New Brunswick and currently at risk of extirpation in the province.

See Gerard’s summertime scribbles below. Home for a rest—July 1, 2023

 

 

The fiddlehead—a New Brunswick spring classic, May 2023. See Janie’s springtime scribbles below.

 

 

An excerpt from Gerard’s journal, written in the Mishnish Pub, Isle of Mull, Scotland—Friday, March 31, 2023