Connections — Generations, Species

The girls and I enjoyed our walk yesterday and they had fun trying to identify what vegetables might grow from what plants, based primarily on what kind of leaves they saw. There’s a Little Diggers…

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and food for life!

London is not the only city to offer charming surprise gardensnestled up to busy corners. In fact, Vancouverites increasingly stroll past Community Gardens producing lettuce, carrots, squash, peas, and tomatoes in a delightful variety of…

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Fragrance of Life

Having been barely home a week from Europe before going over to Vancouver to spend a week there with family, I’m now back and getting reacquainted with my garden. If, as this bench above (situated…

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Smart in Animal Print!

Driving ’round in the hot sun today (my car’s not air-conditioned), taking my mom to and from her radiation treatment (otherwise I would have stayed home, well out of traffic), I remembered a car that…

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Master-ful Ageing, Canadian Style!

I borrowed this photo from a CBC news report about this local example of vibrant ageing — Noel Morrow, 90 years old, with Olympics and Empire Games and a few gold medals in her past,…

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