Watching all the Boats Go By, Waiting for the Herring

For the last few days, we’ve been watching fishing boats go past (mothership in front, herring punt attached and following behind), to the south or to the north. Or south and north as in these…

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horizons

I took these photos a few days ago. As you can see, while it was brilliant here, blue skies and sunshine, a thick band of fog seemed to be keeping the sunshine from reaching Vancouver.…

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more fog and some movie reviews

The fog lifted enough this morning that I could see who’d been making such a racket all night long with the foghorn: As the sun began burning its way through, I risked being late for…

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after the weekend, I’m in a fog . . .

I’ve been away since Thursday morning — in Vancouver ’til Sunday, and then we went to Victoria where Paul had meetings today. We had dinner with my son and his girlfriend last night at the…

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harbingers of spring

Yesterday I promised you an antidote to the dreary winter weather. I admit that the weather and the antidote are region-specific, but they’re based on that principle that Tennyson poetically captured: Every winter turns to…

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