On a beautiful spring day, gardens are usually the best places to be, and plenty of people were proving that this past weekend at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario. We were notified that, because of the unseasonable warm stretch we enjoyed for the better part of a week, the ornamental cherry trees and …
My laptop has been fixed (problem with the charging port) and I though I’d post what I’d planned for last week, in celebration of the many great women throughout history – and in this case, a writer. In the late 1800s, at a time when the majority of women had few options other than marriage …
“There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right temp. Even a bicycle goes too fast.” – Paul Scott Mowrer Life moves quickly. Before we know it, the week has flown by, then the weekend, then …
I started writing this post on Tuesday, which stretched into today due to the complexity of the subject, so the title was adapted for my own reality 😊 The colour blue is wildly popular around the world, but I have to confess that it’s not one of my favourites. I find it generally cold, and …
“Sometimes we gazed through a succession of arches, its course very like the aisles of a Gothic cathedral. The great artistic sculptors and builders of the Middle Ages might have here completed their studies with advantage.” Chapter 16, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne *** I was introduced to Jules …
A great book leads to a great movie and then an amazing travel experience Read More »
Hi everyone. I’m taking a break this week, as I had to have some minor surgery yesterday and am recovering. In the meantime, for your viewing pleasure or possible inspiration, the photo above is one that I took at the Bottomless Lakes in New Mexico recently. See you next week. All photo rights are reserved …
Eating good food is, for me, one of the joys in life. I especially love to explore the cuisine of the different places my hubby and I travel to. We’ve doing this for many years, and it’s really come in handy since I started writing novels. I can provide ambience just by describing what a …
Tickled orange! I’m coining a new phrase to describe how I feel every September and October. Orange is one of my favourite colours, in small doses. That may sound contradictory, but a little orange goes a long way. A friend of mine loved the colour so much that she wore orange outfits frequently and painted …
Orange, the colour of autumn, pumpkins and Halloween Read More »
The years since the turnover to our current millennium have been filled with globally historic events. There have been other world-shaking events in the past, but with instantaneous news transmission, we now get to watch them play out as they transpire. It’s a sign of the charisma of the British monarchy that millions of people …
North of New York City, along the edge of the Hudson River, there is a small estate lying between the railroad tracks of Metro North and the broad expanse of the river. Chapter One, Ghostlight, by Marion Zimmer Bradley One October, I made a pilgrimage, with hubby as chauffeur and adventure partner, to the Hudson …
