What a weekend!

Some images from the weekend: This was undoubtedly the best moment (Nola met her new cousin, Eloise), but there was also this Wherein we marvelled together at Brian Selznick’s magical pencil illustrations in The Invention…

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A Son is Born — as a Father, that Is! Another Granddaughter. . . .

The new parents have introduced their wee one to the world, so I can tell you now that we have been blessed with another beautiful granddaughter. Joy and  gratitude and relief (those last hours of…

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Sunday Blooms and a New Acquisition

Another busy Vancouver weekend, and really, all I’ve got for you are a few pictures. . . but aren’t these magnolias stunning, especially against the blue spring skies. I spied this particular tree along my…

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Lovely Lazy Weekend

 I’ve had a lovely weekend, a good portion having been spent right here in my leather armchair, reading a yummy mystery novel (Paula Hawkins’ Girl on a Train), shamelessly ignoring the books I have to…

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Pulling up the Covers . . .

Home sick today, mostly walloped by the emotions stirred up by a celebration of my mother-in-law’s life, held yesterday in our little Vancouver apartment. A very informal, but very heartfelt memorial, all of our children…

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