Comfort Food, Easy-Style

Here we go, as promised. I served this Chowder to a friend who came for a very casual, easy dinner over the holidays. To accompany it, I made fresh bread from this ever-so-easy and so…

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New Year — a Sombre Beginning

 Shortly after I took these photos of sunrise on the last day of 2014, Pater got the news that his mother had passed away earlier that morning. She was 87, had lived a rich, full,…

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At the Change of the Year…trying out some New!

In the interest of spending a few minutes less in the digital, a few more with the analog; also in the interest of trusting to the eventual coherence of the random and fragmentary over the…

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Makes the Season Bright….or How to make Christmas shopping palatable

Home on the island again, after a ferry ride that included an extended orca sighting. A pod swam alongside us, with a few lovely arcing breaches to show off dramatic black and white markings. Oohs…

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Cold Comfort, Chilly Beauty

Paul got delayed in Vancouver over the weekend (emergency childcare for a granddaughter; taking a daughter to visit his mother as she moves toward palliative care). I stayed on the island with my marking and…

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