I'm feeling particularly happy this evening and I think it's got to do with three things. Thing one: Lilacs!!! Unfortunately, these are not mine. They are in a local park and so I can only bury my face in them
Chloe's last day of 22, she said, "Mom, I don't think I want to be 23." I told her to shut up. And then it was morning, and my child is no longer 22. :D She had a lovely day.
So I just had to wrap my head around this bank holiday weekend. Easter Monday is no longer a statutory holiday in Canada because it's been traded for "Family Day" a floating late February holiday. Go figure. Consequently, Monday wasn't a
Recently I was told the happy news. My garden has been accepted again this year as a show garden for the Art in the Garden tour. (Still waiting to hear about my portfolio, but am hopeful) So today being a lovely
It's time. It's time to open the cabin for the year. All winter the cabin sits in a frozen valley 200km from the door of my city house. It's still chilly up there, but the promise of spring is in the
The other day I bought a lovely basket at the thrift for something ridiculous like $1.99. I imagined all the wonderful picnics I could serve from it, all the stuff in my car I could organise in it, how lovely
City and country, a perfect blend this week. The sun keeps shining, the daffodils are up, some of the cherry trees are in full bloom, the weeping willow in the country has that bright green flush of new leaves
You know what I discovered recently? I actually only have two hellebores in my garden and they're not very exciting hellebores at that. Out at my favourite nursery, Southlands, Thomas had all sorts of these beautiful guys. I love winter bloomers.
Hello from Sunday night :D I'm so excited to report that I saw the first bee of the season this week! And the sun continued to shine that cold, brave light, but out at the river it still looked very
The roof is done! Hooray! Oh my gosh that was a couple of days of the loudest, most inescapable noise. That was two days of scraping and hammering and dropping huge bundles of roofing material, which sounded like an earthquake and made