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Second Summer

Posted on September 4, 2021 by anotetohuguette

“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” – Helen Hunt Jackson A burnt orange crescent moon rose in the night sky late this week, ushering in a glowing … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography | Tagged art, beauty, food, heritage home, musings, Paris-style cafe, postcards, revel, second summer, skyline, smoky skies, tea, The Original Tap and Barrel, The Shipyards, Vancouver, writing | 34 Comments

Golden Hour

Posted on August 5, 2021 by anotetohuguette

“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

Wintering

Posted on February 17, 2021 by anotetohuguette

“We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.” – … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography | Tagged beauty, flowers, forest, hawk, love, nostalgia, pandemic notes, reverie, seasons, senses, soul, wanders, winter tea, wintering, writing | 27 Comments

Longing

Posted on October 6, 2019 by anotetohuguette

“ Every leaf speaks bliss to me. Fluttering from the autumn tree.” – Emily Bronte, “Fall , Leaves, Fall” During the last days of summer, I decided a wander through the tiny garden patchwork of our neighbourhood and the still … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged Autumn, bliss, breathe, joy, light, longing, magic, mounted horses, Narnia, stanley park, tea, transition, trees, Urban Forest Cafe, writing | 45 Comments

Amor Fati (Love Your Fate)

Posted on August 11, 2019 by anotetohuguette

“Fate is inexorable, fate is immovable” – popularized by Bernard Cornwell Some mornings I wake up dreaming of abalone shells, their ocean blue outer skin revealing eternity within, there once was so many, my younger self could pick one up … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged Amor Fati, caring, coffee bar, fate, future, Harry Potter, humanity, love, memory, past, present, roof top garden, Summer, urban, Vancouver Public Library, writing | 27 Comments

The Hunt

Posted on July 25, 2019 by anotetohuguette

“ 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 →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged beauty, bucolic, cafes, fairy tale, family, forest, journey, July musings, love, nature, outside, searching, Summer, the hunt, writing | 28 Comments

Territory

Posted on May 26, 2019 by anotetohuguette

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors.” -Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky On a downtown walk with the … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged awakening, cadence, forest, journeys, joy, Lost Lagoon, ocean, sacred, Sakura, scent, Spring, territory, time, walking, writing | 34 Comments

We Can Do Better

Posted on April 15, 2019 by anotetohuguette

“Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.” – Henry Williamson If the pale pink blossoms of the tulip trees and the dark purple crocuses weren’t already announcing the arrival of spring, then the … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged art, books, fragrance, ink, joy, love, Monet to Matisse, music, musings, nature, outside, rugby, Spring, wandering, writing | 44 Comments

Dive Deep

Posted on November 14, 2018 by anotetohuguette

“ The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.” – George Sand On a rare downtown visit as the summer season waned, I found myself sitting on the Vancouver Art Gallery Cafe’s terrace after a tasty lunch … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, photography, travel | Tagged Appearances, art, Autumn, beauty, cabin fever, change, city life, culture, family, friends, love, magic, stanley park, transformation, Vancouver, writing | 36 Comments

October Pause

Posted on September 30, 2018 by anotetohuguette

“the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light” – Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola There is a post waiting to be published but my world has gone sideways with the … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, journaling, life, memoir, travel | Tagged blogging, Dad, falling leaves, grief, hope, light, long good-bye, love, October, pause, peace, rain, share, transitions, writing | 54 Comments

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