Trying to decide, this morning, whether to post about my readiness for Sunday’s BMO Marathon or to post photographs of a favourite cut-leaf maple, just getting ready to spring into fullness of flower and…
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Most of you, if you garden at all, or visit gardens, will know the ever-popular, oh-so-useful herbaceous perennial, Alchemilla mollis, commonly known as Lady’s Mantle. It’s a wonderful ground cover and/or filler, softening edges and…
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I came downstairs just before 6 this morning. These apricot bar-code reflections on the pewter surface of the water. . . What might that pattern reveal if scanned from far, far above? From here, it…
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My last class of the term was a week ago Monday. Since then, I’ve been holed up with marking, which I can do at home in jeans (or, let’s be honest, pyjamas) just as easily…
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Perhaps it’s the marking (I’m invigilating two exams today, and each group of students wants its essays back, graded; then the same for Friday’s exam, just ahead). Perhaps it’s the weird mental/physical space of the…
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