Living With Antiques
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Some might argue that we are, ipso facto, living with antiques, given our venerably advanced age in life. I've even offered the little joke that if my husband shoved me into a corner I could join the display of antiques. I've also said that he's...
Garden Windowscape
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Our garden never fails to delight us. When we're out in the garden, doing small things to tweak it into order, or earlier in the season when we're planning and doing the hard work preparatory to enjoying a full summer garden, it pleases and delig...
Our Glass Garden
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Yes, glass gardens in abundance. From the exotic with improbable-looking Birds-of-Paradise exhibiting colours rarely seen on living creatures, to what represents the norm for the part of the world we inhabit: a winter scene of snow covering the g...
How About This Kid?
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She's ten years old, kind of hard to believe. Sole grandchild. Does that make sense? We've got three children; two male, one female. We have a grandchild from our daughter, not likely to have any additional grandchildren, more's the pity. Not...
Was Ever a Garden so Sumptuous?
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It's mid-August. Already; I'm hardly prepared to wave good-bye to summer, but fall is just around the corner, groan. Still, the garden is wonderfully luscious, textural and colourful - a thing of true, natural beauty.
Yes, the spring garden i...
Yes, the spring garden i...
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
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There's a certain routine in the evening. As I turn down the coverlet and prepare our bed for sleeping, I also set a small pillow at the foot of the bed below where I sleep and lay out over it a small and thin (summer) blanket. This is for Butto...
Wild Walk
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Visited our daughter and granddaughter yesterday. A very cool day for a change, albeit sunny and windy. Decided to take a walk on the wild side, across from where our daughter's house sits to open fields leading to a reforested area to give all ...
Outside From The Inside
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We have a glass door at the front of the house. As a result, we can see directly out to the porch and beyond, we can view our gardens, our stone urns bursting with blooms any time we pass the front door. Standing within the house, from the large...
Wildlife Abounds
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We left the house under cloudy skies, much cooler temperatures and an intermittent rain with a forecast for thunderstorms during the day. As a result we were dressed for our morning ravine walk rather differently, with long pants, and light rain ...
Ravine Jaunt
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The sky was clear overhead, a lighter blue than when we started out on our ravine hike yesterday, with fewer clouds, a slight breeze, and not yet in the mid-70s. We embarked on yet another ravine walk with our two little poodles, the black one, f...
