Summer Garden, Oceanside . . .

 My botanist-horticulturist (artist-writer-naturalist) friendAlisononce called my front garden a Darwinian garden, alluding to my tendency to throw plants into the soil here and see what survived.  While the rest of the garden is shielded by…

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In the Early Morning Light . . .

Saturday morning, I woke early as usual and enjoyed the luminous tranquility of the day’s beginning. . . I peeked outside at the tent my visiting son had set up on the deck (can you…

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A Different Kind of Peace . . .

 Doesn’t it look peaceful, the view from our beach? But that’s all going to change in a few hours. The peace is going to be disrupted, and I couldn’t be happier. My son and daughter-in-law…

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A Whistler Weekend and a Book Recommendation

I had such a lovely weekend with four of my sisters and my sister-in-law up at Whistler. I hadn’t been up to this ski resort for 15 years, despite it being only a 90-minute drive…

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Images of Barcelona . . . And a Weekend of Goodbye, and Celebrations

Since I told youa good place to stay in Barcelona, I thought I’d share a few more images of why you might want to visit. These are all taken just a few blocks from the…

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