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Muskoka

I haven’t posted in a a few days because my husband and I went away for the weekend. Since we weren’t going to have a functioning bathroom until Monday, we decided that we had to make other plans. This all began last January, well before the tiles started to fall off the wall in the […]

hiking, travel

Vernazza

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Corniglia

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Monterosso Al Mare

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Monterosso

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Art, hiking

Outdoor Gallery

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

hiking, Toronto

Sunny Sunday

Today made up for yesterday.  It was a beautiful sunny day, almost warm, with a breeze. People were in shirt sleeves or light jackets. There was no need to bundle up.  It was an unfettered day. We were not constrained by time either. We didn’t have to be here or there by this hour or

hiking, words

Soggy Saturday

Rain is tangible. Very wet leotards clinging to sodden thighs is tangible.  I feel as though I am about to write a Gothic novella or something; but then I realized that I used the word “leotard.” Nobody uses that word anymore, unless you’re a member of the National Ballet and even then maybe not. So

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Thanksgiving

Yesterday was a holiday and that in itself is a hollowed time – a time to reflect on the meaning of the day. The fact that the holiday was Thanksgiving made it that much more special. I spent a good deal of time yesterday mentally giving thanks for everything I have been given. Even in

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