The cycling trail from Labelle to St. Jovite was more of what we had remembered from ten years ago. It was gently rolling and very flat in many places. It wasn’t as easy as yesterday’s paved trail, but I would trade crushed stone for pelting rain any day!! Although there was a lot of heavy […]
The lodging for the first night of our trip down Le P’tit Train du Nord was Auberge Chez Ignace, which was not only a refuge from the storm, but also a welcome oasis of warmth, charm and wonderful food. Here too, we finally had an opportunity to meet the other six people, who were travelling
I had one of those “OMG, what have I done?” moments last Friday. I was in the middle of the bush in Northern Quebec, totally isolated, covered in mosquitos, biking uphill, in the pouring rain. My husband, whom I had dragged along, was having chest pains and all I could think of was, “How did
….or maybe it’s gridlock of a whole different variety 🙂 I read in the paper yesterday where one of the bridges over the Seine in Paris lost a portion of its grid work because of all the padlocks that couples have affixed to it, as a sign of their eternal devotion to one another. Given
The first movie I watched on our new flat screen “Smart TV” (were all the other ones dumb?) – was “Finding Vivian Maier.” I have been fascinated by her photography since 2011, the first time I read an article about the auctioning of all her undeveloped film. In fact I wrote a post on it
Today, June 6, is DDay. The day the allies landed on the beaches of Normandy and began the liberation of France, which ultimately ended WWII. Usually DDay commands the front page of both daily newspapers. It didn’t today, eclipsed by the tragedy in Moncton – another war on a different front. Yes, there were a
Have you ever had one of those days when everything seems to go wrong? Well yesterday was one of them for me. It started with a note on my windshield about parking to close to a driveway. I may have written before about permit parking, street parking and parking pads. It’s an ongoing battle. 1.
On Friday, my husband and I went to Niagara-on-the-Lake for a trial run, make that a trial bike run. We’re still trying to use up my husband’s vacation time before he has to forfeit any unused time in August. We’re now down to about 25 days. However, if you throw in the weekends in between,
I left work early today because it was such a beautiful day!! Actually, I did make an early morning meeting sponsored by our BIA on how to use Twitter to promote your business and other businesses or individuals in your circle(s), so I think that I can justify leaving an hour or two earlier at
This does not mean a “patient life.” This means that the ubiquitous, shade loving plant known as Impatiens, (sounds like impatience) will be few and far between for the next few years, in Toronto anyway, because of a blight, downey mildew. I can’t imagine Toronto, without Impatiens. We have a lot of shade trees in
