I have written before about what we do in winter to survive. One of my “must haves” or “must dos” is to plant bulbs – the bigger the better. I always say that the bulbs get us through to Valentine’s Day and then we are very close to March with milder days above freezing. Spring […]
Today is Saturday and any day that isn’t a work day, to me, is a holiday!! It is unscheduled time. Yes, there are chores, but they can be done – whenever, and I have to add – if ever!! So with my unscheduled time today, I took pictures of the Art outside my window. I
A calm exterior often masks a chaotic interior. Let me explain. We have rented for a short time, I hope, a storage facility nearby to help us clear out the house and reorganize our space. My eldest has just finished four years of Art college and we have run out of walls on which to
Yesterday our youngest turned 20. My husband said, “Now we have no teenagers in the house anymore.” I nearly cried. It’s the dichotomy of the human condition – you want them to grow and be successful, but you also want them to stay and keep the family together, as it were. Anyway, when the kids
Sometimes I just see an interesting picture right in front of me. This is why I like to have my camera ready. Today the photo op was in the dining room at about 6:00am. Light from an outside lamp was streaming in through the window, creating interesting shadows. I had to record it! These are
I loved Jenny Heston‘s post a few days ago on Wabi Sabi – the Japanese term for “celebrating the imperfect” among other things. I totally agreed with Jenny. Why wait for “the perfect” situation? Why not enjoy what is here and now? Maybe even enjoy it because of its limitations? I have been looking for
I posted about Patrick Moore and his love of stars and cats – maybe one in the same 🙂 He lived with his mother in a 16th century home in Sussex England called “Farthings.” I love the way some people decide to name their homes. I know that it is often just large estates that
We went for a walk through Burke’s Brook ravine which runs under the overpass of Mt Pleasant Rd. near Blythwood Ave. It’s an area that’s very popular with graffiti artists. My husband had read that the city was trying to control the amount of defacing there by making the area an outdoor gallery. Maybe they
This is a little story about an incident that happened years ago. For some reason it just popped into my mind the other day and for lack of another blog topic, I thought, why not retell this one? I was living, at the time, in an apartment in Port Credit and teaching at a high
