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Tag Archives: Summer
Flight
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi After almost three years of not flying we find ourselves above a dry patch of land with snow capped Mt. Baker (Washington) rising above dark blue winding rivers. There … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel
Tagged beauty, celebration, energy, family, festivals, flight, gardens, joy, Lake Ontario, love, music, Summer, Toronto, travel, wonder
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Rhododendron Series (Part Two)
“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.” – Henry Rollins Their voices are rusty but true after two years of silence, the yearly Strawberry Summer Party (formerly … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, photography
Tagged beauty, celebration, colour, enchantment, fragrance, garden, green, holiday, languor, magical, rhododendrons, stanley park, Summer, Vancouver, wander
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Golden Hour
“But in the midst of all that is, was or ever will be, there is a light that keeps shining, reaching us from far away.” – Sasha Sagan After an unexpected and very deadly heatwave that enveloped the West Coast … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel
Tagged air, art, beauty, city, climate change, golden hour, Granville Island Market, heat dome, Imagine Van Gogh, kites, local, patio, Summer, vagaries, Vancouver, writing
39 Comments
Feed Your Soul
“Explore the earth, soak up her beauty, and let it feed your soul. Love her like your own, and then leave her be.” – April 2021 Alive magazine Deep verdant green and fragrant gardens draw me most days to paths … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography
Tagged art, beauty, beloved books, earth, feed your soul, joy, light, nature, normalcy, Pendulum Gallery, pleasure, Summer, tea, wanders, warmth, wonder
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Through The Looking Glass
“in the gardens of memory, in the palace of dreams, that is where you and I shall meet” – The Mad Hatter Smoke from the fires raging in California (USA) arrived yesterday, smothering the late August light and colouring the … Continue reading
Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography
Tagged beauty, Covid-19, fire season, forest garden, joy, looking glass, love, Mad Hatter, passage, pints, sanctuary, solo walks, Summer, widespread smoke
48 Comments
Outside We Live
“What humanity needs, nature answers in whispers.” – Numi Tea CITY There’s a Summer Art Program being presented downtown twice a week – two beautiful parklets are now home to artists and students displaying works in progress to potential customers … Continue reading
The Hunt
“ No matter what you write, you actually can’t help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.” – Catheryanne M. Valente There is still a scent of jasmine and mint in the air and I’ve just slipped into my … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, bucolic, cafes, fairy tale, family, forest, journey, July musings, love, nature, outside, searching, Summer, the hunt, writing
28 Comments
Do What Moves You
Love Yourself. Then Forget It. Then Love The World. – Mary Oliver, Devotions The Canada Geese are doing it – I laughed out loud as the adults and growing goslings walked single file across the wide expanse of beach towards … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti - A Line Through Time, beauty, Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, do what moves you, events, exhibitions, festivals, Language Matters, love, showing up, Summer, theatre of the sky, time, Vancouver Art Gallery, water, Womxn and Waterways
36 Comments
Awaken
“ There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.” – Rudolfo Anaya The marine air that we were promised has come to blow the coastal smoke away, although there … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, birdlife, foreboding, forest, forest fires, green spaces, Harry Potter, picnics, reading, red sun, September 1st, Summer, trail walking, woodsmoke, writing
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