Friends have been listening to audiobooks for years; if a bookclub date should roll around faster than anticipated, someone would plug in an audio version whilst driving a child to hockey/gymnastics/voice lessons/orthodontist appointments and turn the highway 99 drive into her own personal writer’s festival. For some reason, I never tried this but I always … Continue reading Dabbling in Neuroscience…
A few years back, I was wasting time on social media, when a friend posted this message to all her friends: Step away from the computer and take a look outside. I followed her advice and witnessed a sunset that etched itself onto my mind’s gallery. Photos commemorated the sight but only the one in … Continue reading It doesn’t do it justice, but…
Around the lake today, most walkers are gawkers, too. The leaves seem particularly bright this time of year and the blue skies and crisp air sharpen the colours. A morning fog jewels everything, so I join the fall fan club and find such complexity even in simplicity. I will let the thousand words tumble from … Continue reading A Picture’s Worth: Fall Leaves are the perfect invitation to stop in your tracks and take in the moment
Cornus nuttali-aka Pacific dogwood became the floral emblem for BC in 1956 but apparently the flowering tree was associated with this province long before that, as dogwood lapel pins were sold to raise money for supplies like wool blankets for soldiers during world war two. (S is for Spirit Bear: A British Columbia Alphabet By … Continue reading Dogwood
When we moved to town, I gave up a large garden and sometimes I really miss it, not only for the harvest of veggies and flowers it provided but also for the learning opportunities it presented. Fortunately, I live beside the community gardens and sometimes I saunter around in there admiring other people’s hard work. … Continue reading Harvest
There’s a billboard on the right just past the Lightfoot gas station in Lillooet and I enjoy chuckling at their latest message. Recently, the joke cracked me up good: Earlier this summer, we drove around the streets of Chase in search of a used travel trailer. Eventually, we needed coffee and on the way to … Continue reading Crack Me Up: Connie Sobchak finds several signs that her sense of humour is in tact
After a summer of relative inactivity, three hill repeats out of the suggested ten on the One Mile Lake circuit had my legs burning. On the fourth, I thought, maybe this is actually the fifth but immediately pounced on that lie and insisted-every time you try to trick yourself into doing less than what you … Continue reading Never be Ashamed of a Walk in the Woods
I've been thinking of learning to fly. They say you can do anything you put your mind to so that's going to be it. I don't need to soar to great heights. About four meters off the ground would be enough, it appears. That would give me a "bird's eye view" of everything without taking … Continue reading A Different Perspective: why Connie Sobchak wants to be able to fly
It doesn't take much for the conversation to shift to all things mechanical in some company - not my company, certainly, definitely, and most emphatically. However, one brother is a heavy duty mechanic and the other is a farmer. My husband is an iron worker/welder. Put the three of them together and they easily slip … Continue reading The Parts Archive
Well, it started out innocently enough. I took photos of every flowering plant that I saw while I waited for Mickey to sniff everything he found sniffworthy. Aware that many of these plants were weeds and likely invasive species, I struggled briefly with my conscience but then was drawn in by the colour and the … Continue reading Cornflower
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