Garden. Sunshine. Awakening. . .

I feel as if I’ve been playing hooky from my blog, which is rather a silly way to conceive a few days away — my last post was on Friday, and today’s only Monday. I’m…

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Fountain Bamboo — Once in a Lifetime!

My fountain bamboo (fargesia nitida) is blossoming!  I was both excited and, honestly, a bit alarmed when I noticed this on a walk ’round my garden earlier this sunny week (more photos to come).  As…

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Winter Wander on a Word-less Wednesday — In my Garden!

 I’m hurrying to get my morning run done before I rush to the ferry — I’m meeting another Island Blogger for breakfast this morning — exciting!  Will we recognize each other? While I’m trying to…

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Steps to Retirement, Little Steps,

Strawberry tree (arbutus uneda) with its magic trick of  offering fruit and flower simultaneously!  I’ve been disappointed with my posts lately, wishing I could find time for some of the reflective writing I really enjoy…

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Autumn Running, Thinking, Working, Retiring. . . . Blazing Colourfully. . . .

 I was home getting a drink and using the toilet in between loops of my long run this morning when the slanting sunlight of an early Fall morning lit the autumn foliage in the back…

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