black blooms — natural and fabric-ated

The last issue of Gardening Life, a glossy Canadian garden magazine, featured a “black” garden, the counterpart to the famous white garden atSissinghurst. While I’ve no similarly concentrated darkness in my garden, I have been…

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Here’s looking at me. . .

Sometimes it just seems the most foolish thing imaginable to take pictures of what one is wearing and post them for anyone who wants to see. Narcissistic and also excruciatingly vulnerable-making. Somehow, though, I find…

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more blooms

I put most of this post together on Thursday before I spent my weekend in Vancouver. We enjoyed brilliant weather this weekend (I had a fabulous run in the spring sunshine out to Jericho Beach),…

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wanting what I have, the cashmere coat version

After questioning some of my shopping patterns recently (and Une Femme extended this thinking with a very productive analogy in her post yesterday), I decided to focus on the succesful purchases I’ve made rather than…

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horizons

I took these photos a few days ago. As you can see, while it was brilliant here, blue skies and sunshine, a thick band of fog seemed to be keeping the sunshine from reaching Vancouver.…

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