What I’m wearing lately, in this transitional weather between winter and spring, is in direct relation to our upcoming trip to Italy. Some favourite clothes are now off limits, packed for travel. And whatever I choose to wear right now has to work with a new and boldly coloured pair of trail runners that must be broken in before we head off to walk part of the Via Francigena….
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I took grandkids and memories of my mother on my annual hunt for a favourite indigenous Spring-appearing bloom. Click through to see this year’s version of a recurring theme on the blog. Happy New Season!
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23 years after my father’s death, I’ve finally begun mending a vest he once wore, handknit for him in the mid ’40s, ravaged by moths a few decades later. And then I started sketching his face from a favourite family photo of him and his brother. Memory work in progress. Click through to see and read.
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February. “A good month for reading” might be the best we can say
about the “f” month. So I made the most of it — one blockbuster of a big novel; a collection of weird and wonderful short stories; a travel memoir (Italy); and four mystery novels. Click through to see what I read and join our book chat.
A quiet corner; a couple of outfits I enjoyed wearing on cold days; a few scenes of the urban waterfront view that always coaxes a smile . . . a weird-but-worth-it book . . . and an excerpt from a 30-year-old travel journal I kept . . . A Sunday Seven for you, things that brought a smile in a week that challenged. Click through to read.
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