The garden produces
The plants are maturing and we’re beginning to reap the rewards. One day I went out and picked a cucumber. I sent a message to my daughter. E. will be happy to see cucumbers. “Can you bring the girls one … Continue reading →
Category Archives: photography
Write Canada 2016
Next week is Write Canada in Toronto. The committee has been working for months to get it organized and the registrar’s been busy too. Instead of the intensive like last year, I’ll offering a two-part workshop on writing Creative Nonfiction … Continue reading →
The Garden as a Lesson in Growth
A few days ago I posted over at Canadian Writers Who Are Christian about lessons in gardening. Read the first bit of it here: I’m teaching my granddaughters who are 4 and 6 about gardening. It’s an ongoing lesson. They … Continue reading →
A Women's Retreat
Could it be two weeks already since our women’s retreat. I look at my planner and it most surely is. Last year our retreat was cancelled when the church camp was closed for the winter and until May. Our retreat, … Continue reading →
Winter is back
Although winter seemed to have left us, we’re still in February and in that month we can have anything from thaw to heaps of snow. The snow started falling last evening, following up the rain we had during the afternoon, … Continue reading →
Yet another loss
Late in November as I began to make plans for Christmas, I thought about my friend Patricia. It had been some months since we last talked, not because I didn’t think of her, but more a case of the … Continue reading →
The Shedding Christmas Tree
My granddaughters, aged 4 & 6, each made one of these for their tree a few weeks ago when we were doing a craft. I made one along with them. Pets shed their fur, people lose hair upon combing … Continue reading →
From my writer’s notebook
It hasn’t always been my practice to carry a notebook, but since I’ve begun to write, I make sure that I take along a small notebook or a few pieces of paper, and at least one good pen to … Continue reading →
District 86 Toastmasters Fall conference
In July, I completed a proposal for a workshop for the fall Toastmasters District 86 conference in November. It seemed a long time until the conference, but these things must be done ahead of time to give the organizers time … Continue reading →
Last flowers to bloom
I’ve been meaning to do this for days and today I finally got to it. Taking photos of the last flowers of summer. Most everything else has died off or was looking a bit droopy, although there are still a … Continue reading →