Girlcook and I play Dressup

My daughter, Megan, is here visiting for a week before she heads out to Toronto to live with her boyfriend. She’s been away cooking at a heliskiing lodge over the winter, and we’ve missed her.…

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wonderful Paris architecture

I see that Jean Nouvel has been awarded the 2008 Pritzker, a prize I haven’t been aware of before but apparently the highest award an architect can achieve. This news item only caught my eye…

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spring greens

I love the almost ghostly colours of this woodland plant, Jeffersonia diphylla (Twinleaf). The globular shape between the leaves in the photo below is a flowerbud. Look how many flowerbuds you can spot below. We’re…

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Wild island treasure — and what I wore

I suppose the scene above looks rather scrubby, but it’s exemplary of what I’ve loved about our island since before we bought a place here: the ungroomed roadsides, with grasses that grow knee-to-hip-high in the…

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what I wore — the opera!

This picture’s neither flattering nor even very clear (in the photographer’s defense, it’s tough to photograph black) but supposedly it’s worth a thousand words. I’m posting it because I felt good about dressing for the…

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