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April 14, 2018 Vancouver Public Library
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April 3, 2018 Algerian Iris, Spring, 2018
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February 7, 2018 Hidden Treasures of Vancouver: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden…Beauty in Blue…
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January 21, 2018 Beautiful Elders: Sailing on an Uncharted Sea–Part 2: “Don’t look back, you’re not going that way.”
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December 21, 2017 Boulevard Herbs & Perennials–Part Two–Highlights of the 2017 Boulevard Garden
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November 30, 2017 Urban Garden Harvest—Part Two—Highlights of the 2017 Vegetable Garden
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October 4, 2017 Reconciliation-‘Namwayut-We are all one
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- Boulevard Herbs & Perennials–Part Two–Highlights of the 2017 Boulevard Garden
Favourite Quotations
I will take care not to go toward the dark.
I will go toward the day.
- Inuit sayingLaughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
-Victor HugoGive light and the darkness will disappear of itself.
-ErasmusThe day, water, sun, moon, night--I do not have to purchase these things with money.
-Plautus (Roman playwright, c. 254-184 B.C.)The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away.
-Pablo PicassoGardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
-George Bernard ShawNever give up listening to the sounds of birds.
-John James AudubonIt doesn't matter where we go away on holiday — as soon as we get home, we're relieved. There's nowhere like it for us.
-Carlo Briscoe (Tile-maker in Pembrokeshire, UK)"My dear, all life is a series of problems which we must try and solve. First one, and then the next, and the next, until at last we die."
-a line from the Dowager, a character played by
Maggie Smith in "Downton Abbey", by
Julian Fellowes.I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
-Emile Zola...everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow cycles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
-May Sarton (1912-1985)Blogs I Follow
- The INFJ PhD
- alan frost photography
- ... my spare moments
- Kristah Price
- The Frustrated Gardener
- Frogend dweller's Blog
- Wolves in London
- The Wildlife Gardener
- Positive Potential Medicine
- Bealtaine Cottage ~ The Oldest Independent, Permaculture Smallholding in Ireland! Conceived, Designed, Planted and Worked by One Woman!
- View from Over the Hill
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