Weekend Sketching . . .

Good Monday morning! We’re in the middle of what constitutes a heat wave here in normally rainy Vancouver — no rain for a week or so and there’s none forecast for the next week, with…

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Weekend Plans and A Travel Journal Page

My son and daughter-in-law arrive this afternoon to stay for the weekend with our 3-year-old granddaughter and 3-month-old grandson.  Times like this we really miss our waterfront home with a tiny guest cottage in the…

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More Lyon: A Page from my Travel Journal

The frustration involved in sketching this page — which I’m now quite pleased with — doesn’t show, unless you notice the murky marks of erasure, the dirt that’s adhered to hand oils after too much…

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Paris Shopping: Des Belles Addresses

We’re packing up this evening, and by this time tomorrow I’ll be cuddling a Five and a Three that I haven’t seen since they surprised me for that Really Big Birthday! Not much time to…

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Zagreb Style. . .

Do you remember that when I first visited Zagreb last year, Dottoressa introduced me to spica, the Zagrebian custom of dressing up and meeting friends for coffee on Saturday morning? Sadly, we didn’t have a…

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