Sorry, more weather, and a glimpse of island life . . .

The weather forecast around here is very disheartening. They’ve finally taken the red-banded Wind Warning down, but it will probably go up again later today as we’re expecting winds of 60-80kmh (kilometres per hour) later…

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Window-dressing . . .

I used to be unreservedly grumpy about all those signs of Christmas that appeared as soon as we passed Halloween. Now, of course, they begin even earlier — this year I saw trees being decorated…

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frightful weather, delightful food . . .

Even these neutral colours, illuminated as they are by afternoon sunshine, seem brilliant compared to today’s stormy offerings. I took these several weeks ago after noticing the rich combination of decaying fall leaves and needles…

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Peace and Quiet

I took this photo through my back door window (my back door is pretty much all window, actually!) several weeks ago — I love the quality of that early morning light. And the sense of…

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Good times, good people!

Not much time for posting, but I thought you might like to see a few pics. I’m bad, though — I brought my little camera to the celebration of my parents-in-law’s 60th anniversary at my…

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