Of Bikes and Bees and Things that Please. . .

Cycling this route was what I chose to do on our 43rd anniversary last week, to please myself. I clarified the choice as I wrote my “morning pages” my husband still sleeping. Some of you…

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What I’m Wearing: To Please Myself

 The post I had planned for this morning wasn’t really an “outfit post.” Instead, I was using the playful exhortation on this t-shirt as an entry-point to tell you about my efforts lately to figure…

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Beach Stories, Back in the City. . .

Back in the city, under a layer of the smoke that’s covering our province, I’m nonetheless quite happily occupied, enjoying such aspects of city life as watching spectacular fireworks from our balcony, walking to beachside…

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Duck, Duck, Goose: Making Mistakes, Having Fun. . . .

Celebrating mistakes was the subject of a post I wrote a year ago, focused on some of my sketching efforts but extending outward from that to think about doing things we’re not necessarily good at…

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Wednesday: Pictures and a Few Words . . . How to Look at Hydrangeas

 I know that the colour of hydrangeas has much to do with the pH balance of the soil  but I’ve no idea how many seasons it will take me to turn this shrub’s blooms to…

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