weekend fun ahead

Hope you don’t mind more garden photos, but I like to share the spring bounty. These are all shots of a favourite Japanese maple, so fresh and delicate and precise as it opens out leaves…

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(Not Just) Another Night at the Opera

Added March 16th, thanks to Ling Chan, Assistant to Managing Director for VOA: The manga is drawn by artist Fiona Meng. Rigoletto pictures should be credited to photographer Tim Matheson and the pictures for the…

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Opera Night — That’ll Warm up Winter

Honestly, it’s hard to think of a better antidote to cold, dreary, January days than a smoking-hot opera such as Carmen! And the Vancouver Opera Association has done a great job with this production —…

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weekend blooms, sunshine, food, and other goodies

These cheery little species tulips (sorry, can’t remember their name any more specifically than that) opened for the first time just before I left home on Friday. I love to see how responsive they are…

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full disclosure

I’ve left these behind, a small sign of how much work my garden needs, how inappropriate it is to abandon it for a weekend, to go and see this and I think I’ll probably wear…

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