Word-less Wednesday on Canada Day

I’m crazy about the way the evening sunlight filters through these huge trees at a neighbour’s just up the road.  First of all, Happy Canada Day to my compatriots. I’m not big on flag-waving in…

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Monday Morning, Photography and Urban Gardening…

The Introduction to Digital SLR Photography course I took this past weekend was great. I’ve been wanting to get beyond the Automatic features of the camera since I got it, but never seemed to find…

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Creative Inspiration from a Broken Eggshell — Yes, Really!

 I spotted this eggshell on the road when I was running last week Y  and I popped it on my finger like a thimble so that I could carry it home without crushing it.  At…

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Throwback Thursday …. Grandmas and Granny Dresses

My English grandma and I, the summer my dad flew her out to visit us, 1966, something like nine years since we’d seen her, four or five, I think, since she’d been widowed. My Dad…

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Steps to Retirement, Little Steps,

Strawberry tree (arbutus uneda) with its magic trick of  offering fruit and flower simultaneously!  I’ve been disappointed with my posts lately, wishing I could find time for some of the reflective writing I really enjoy…

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