Some more garden cheer, in the form of the wonderfully fragrant mahonia japonica. Other cheerful things: The reading I organized went very well. Although I wish even more hockey and poetry fans could have heard…
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That’s green enough for St. Patrick’s day, don’t you think? That’s a ribena sanguinea ‘White Icicles’ bud getting ready to burst into bloom. I was curious to see when it did that last year, and…
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It has been so awful here, weather-wise. Yes, last week’s snow finally melted off the ground, and I’m no longer worried about the pipes to the cottage freezing at the nighttime -7 lows, but the…
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As you can see, we’re enjoying bright sunshine and blue skies here this weekend. We’re also enjoying the way this light plays on the almost-completed addition to our garden and imagining dining under a cover…
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We have been living in freezing fog for over a week now. Yesterday, fortunate enough to take in a reading by the visiting Saanich poet Philip Kevin Paul, I was mesmerized not only by the…
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