Scrolling through my photos to find the delicious shoes for Wednesday’s post, I was momentarily arrested by this shot — brought back to the Paris trottoir where I’d looked up to recognize the more urban, and…
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When I read this post on Jamie Cat Callan’s fabulous blog, I immediately thought of this photo I took of a delightful vitrine in Bordeaux last May. Jamie goes back and forth between candy-coloured shoes in…
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A hasty grouping of history novels so that I could move some books back onto the shelves: The best of the bunch, Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies. Another very satisfying historical novel is Eva…
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Just last week, the fall colours were set off by sharp blue skies for maximum enjoyment My autumn-blooming clematis — maximowicziana (terniflora)– encouraged an illusion of summer, and although I’d changed to slightly heavier jeans…
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After weeks of record-breaking drought (the driest September ever recorded in Vancouver; here in Nanaimo, the driest since 1998, which had broken all previous). . . . it’s baaaaack! Yes, we can almost hear the…
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