The Sidewalks of Bordeaux (A Social Introvert Looks Back)

Much as I enjoy our conversations, I’ve been bumping molecules with people in my more immediate vicinities this past week.  Five separate visits with six different friends (one couple accounts for the math) plus a…

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Monday Illustration. . . So Much to Learn!

Shhhh!  As I write this, I’m hiding out in the bedroom, with the A/C, while sheers (with the new building completed across the lane, we needed some light-preserving privacy) and a blackout blind are being…

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Garden Update — Condo Rooftop Container Garden, That Is. . .

 Our local heat wave has broken, with a promised “chance of showers” today and tomorrow, the “risk of thunderstorms” this afternoon.  Enough “local smoke”  to trigger an Air Quality Warning (wildfire on the outskirts of…

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A Trip to the Woods. . . And a Small Crisis Averted. . .

Honestly, those of you who live with heat for months and months of the year, sunhats off to you! I’m sweltering in our version of a Heat Wave (official Environment Canada website gives a Heat…

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Weekend Sketching . . .

Good Monday morning! We’re in the middle of what constitutes a heat wave here in normally rainy Vancouver — no rain for a week or so and there’s none forecast for the next week, with…

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