Just down the Road — Weekend Getaway

These irises are not in my garden (I wish!) but are part of the landscaping at thelovely waterfront hotel we stayed in Saturday night in Victoria. Our son and GF have some good connections in…

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Colour Lesson from a Cargo Barge

Just a single photo this morning.  But I find this view from my front deck so effective (you’ll appreciate it better if you have a moment to click and enlarge). The cargo ship is so…

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Two of these books are not like the other . . .

I’m going to have to speed things up a bit, so you’ll excuse some disparate pairings, I hope, and some very brief remarks. Ian McEwan’s Solar, while it is, as the Sunday Times apparently declared,…

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It’s Academic — Dressing for Dinner. . .

 My plan was for either no post this morning, or for one about where we stayed while in Victoria this weekend. But Lisa at AmidPrivilege has graciously pointed toward me as a possible model for…

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And There Is Sunshine . . . .

We’re away from the garden today — we drove down to Victoria yesterday to visit good friends for dinner and perhaps to catch some time with our son. But Friday afternoon, I uploaded some garden…

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