trying to stay happy in a blizzard!

When my oldest daughter was small, about five I think, I made up a monthly calendar that we kept on the fridge; each day, she’d record the weather on it with a simple drawing. Since…

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more snow scenes

Clearing a path to the gate this morning, I couldn’t resist darting back in for my camera . . . pristine snow confers beauty on the simplest objects

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colour-ful comments — the advent of purple

Two comments about what I’ve been wearing have made me chuckle lately. One was Karen’s on my last post about colour: she reminded me that, especially compared to her recent experiments, my combination of red…

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The Garden’s Baubles . . . and Mine

Admittedly, the above is not a particularly convincing photo, but it’s meant to show you that the “strawberries” on my Arbutus uneda (Strawberry tree) are plumping up and changing colour. While I’ve had berries on…

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Alone, But Happy

When I proposed to Pater that we could each spend today in our respective cities — rather than take advantage of the day off work for him to travel back here — I felt more…

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