Duchesse just posted some practical-yet-chic neutral dresses, and there’s no doubt a versatile background accomodates variety through accessories. The dress above clearly fails to exemplify such neutrality. Way too purple, for one thing, and then…
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We had a bit of sunshine on Saturday, but then quickly back to this grey bleakness. This freighter anchored just off our beach fits into the colour scheme with its brooding blue. Closer in, as…
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Honestly, it’s hard to think of a better antidote to cold, dreary, January days than a smoking-hot opera such as Carmen! And the Vancouver Opera Association has done a great job with this production —…
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About this time last year, I was just finishing a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe in which I was impressed and surprised and somewhat bemused to learn that whenever O’Keeffe bought something new, for her personal…
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It’s cool, drab, and rainy this morning, and with last weekend’s time change, the dark nights hit earlier; as we move toward the solstice, over the next six weeks, the days are shorter and shorter,…
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