Mother’s Day Memories and Musings

Looking throuugh some old photos last week, I came across this page in a Photograph album from my late teens/early twenties, an album populated by photos taken with either the Brownie Hawkeye box camera I…

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Running and Karaoke and Opera and Garden Pretties — Really!

Euphorbia’s brilliantly acid green. Photos have nothing to do whatsoever with text, today, except that all reflect spring’s pleasures. I took these garden shots in last weekend’s sunshine. Yesterday the spring showers turned to vicious…

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Remembering this ‘n that at “certain ages”

The sunshine was fabulous while it lasted, although it’s certainly whetted our appetites for more. The weather forecast originally promised a warm sunny weekend, but today is grey, wet, and windy, not the best weather…

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Remembering P.K. Page — An Inspiring Life

Canada has lost a national treasure, a literary grand dame, as CBC terms her (sadly leaving out her considerable achievements as a visual artist, a painter — an omission rectified in this later CBC report…

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A Long Preamble — there will be Boots!

I’m going to try telling you a long story in order to tell you a short one — some of my dissatisfaction with my blog recently is that I so often abandon the stories I…

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