Autumn’s Here. . .

A hearty rain is currently scrubbing our Vancouver skies clean of the smoke that choked us all week. . . So no complaints about our Wet Coast weather, at least not for a few days. …

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Seven Things To Do Each Day

Earlier this summer, I pressed “Publish” on a few posts in a little series I called “Walking With Earbuds in Clothes near Gardens”. . . at least, that was the title of one of the…

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Summer Sketch: Of Wisteria and Ladybugs, Cycling and Bread-baking

We are a few days into what passes for a heat wave here in Vancouver, and I’m trying not to wax too nostalgic about life on the island where I could walk from my front…

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In the Garden, Hope Springs. . . .or Spring Hopes. . .

My granddaughter chose this card — by my good friend Sandy, who keeps me well supplied — to send to her cousin in Italy.  She chose it because she recognized our current reality here where…

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November Puttering and Reflecting and Working Toward Traction. . .

Before we had the Four, the Almost-Seven, and their Dog for the weekend, I was over on “the island” taking a two-day Drawing from Nature workshop, and the days before that were busy as well…

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