Today was one of those do everything right days. Do you have those days? Do you know what I mean? It's one of those days you imagine having in your mind, you know, those kinds of days you know that you should
Inspiration abounds! I found a barn built in 1911, next to a beautiful house, in the middle of fields and stream, with a garden show and seed swap taking place inside, and a
That would be me! And it's not even Christmas any more. :D The other day I spied the first snowdrop in my garden. So I ran out, picked it, and put it on my bedside table inside the little ink bottle
A bit of a distance from my mountains is the delta of the Fraser River. Across this rickety little bridge is a small island full of organic farms and the George C Riefel Migratory Bird Sanctuary. On this drippy winter
I’m looking at the photo of the mantelpiece in the morning light on the last day of 2014. I’m looking at my Christmas candles which were new and tall just a few days ago, now burned down to the candle
It's not easy being a Christmas baby. One's Boxing Day birthday is often very conveniently wrapped up with a Christmas celebration, but we've always tried to make it a special day for mom in some way. My mother turned 80
Chloe has been wanting to do this for some time now, and even threatening a shaved head for a period of time, (We are ever so glad she reconsidered the shaved bit), but she sent us examples of styles and
Hi everyone, it's Monday night and I just drove into my dreary, rainy city of black forests and snow capped mountains, but my spirits are full of gold leaves and small towns, grasslands, rivers and lakes.
"There is stillness, the stones hold us. Still." (Druid saying recorded by Romans) In the next door village of Stanton Harcourt is a stone henge. The village is named for it: from Stan (farm) + tun (beside the rocks). It's a little
The world is very liminal today. It's a grey day here where things can go either way. The river is very still. Robert and I wonder if the river is still because of a storm downstream. Too much water downstream.