A Few Last Wedding Photos

Thanks so much for the thoughtful and kind and wise comments on my last post. I’m doing my best to answer each response, but it will take a while.  Meanwhile, today began with an 8…

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A Funny Thing Happened at the Dentist’s Office . . . The Realities of a Big Move

When I was back on the island a couple of months ago, taking that two-day drawing coursewith my friend Alison, I bumped into numerous friends and neighbours from our 20+ years there. Fielding questions about…

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What I Wore, the Weekend Version. . .

 A little What I Wore, What I Did reporting from the weekend while I polish up a post that’s taking time to write. Apologies to those of you who saw these two posts on Instagram…

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Flitting with the Finches — Back to My Reading Blog with a Book About Birds

Yes, I have trouble keeping this blog going — I’d say that it’s an example of a lifelong trend to,  as I’ve often been warned from adolescence onward, “spread myself too thin.” But I’m going…

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Five Things Good Friday

We’ve been planting on the terrace — dreaming of it someday being festooned with fragrant honeysuckle so that we might be constantly pestered by hummingbirdds. . . .  1. The first thing I would have…

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