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Random Musings of a West Coast Canadian
(134/366) Lego My Killer Whale!
May 13, 2012 – May 13, 2012 – Funny how you live in a place, know that things are where they are, but never really go and look at them. I was wandering back and forth in the sun down at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre and a man was about to take a photo of his wife in…
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(132/366) Spring is really here?
May 11, 2012 – I don’t want to scare it away, but the weekend is supposed to be nice…shhhh….it frightens easily…. Wow, nice weather AND on a weekend AND it’s sailpast this weekend for our yacht club. What a fabulous set of circumstances. I was invited out on a couple of boats for the weekend, scratch that, I was heavily…
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(125/366) Bogbean
May 4, 2012 – I glanced out the window and had two surprises. The first was some sunshine, the second was that the bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata) in the pond was in flower. I love this funky little water plant with the wazzed out hair-do! It ended up in the pond sort of accidentally. I had purchased a water lily out…
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(111/366) Fabulous Flex Fridays!
April 20, 2012 – Gorgeous day today. In some ways, rain would have been better. I might have finished my marking then. But it was sunny and glorious, and Kirk had to work, and it was my day off – so what’s a girl to do but pull out the bike and go for a ride? A run across the…
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(102/366) Dreaming of Boating
April 11, 2012 – I love the water, I really do. Driving is fun, riding is more fun, but boating…yes……boating…. it captures my heart. It’s the only place where I really, truly, relax and unwind. And I cannot say enough about the community of people that we have grown with and been welcomed into. Who knew that buying a boat…
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(97/366) Sakura
April 6, 2012 – Dare we hope? Could Spring finally have decided to make an entrance? The pink cherry blossoms always seem to herald fair weather, but it’s been such a miserable start to the year weather-wise here on the West Coast. Out riding today, the blossoms seem to be making an appearance on a wide-scale manner at last. Each…
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(94/366) One Thing the Outer Coast Does Particularly Well…
April 3, 2012 – One thing the outer coast of Vancouver Island does particularly well is grow moss. Why? Well, with an annual average precipitation of close to 3 metres of rain, it’s a pretty moist environment. It’s lovingly known as the “Wet Coast”, and it is a beautiful place to visit if you are a person who can get…
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(92/366) Breathe Deep and Wait
April 1, 2012 – They tell us it’s spring, but it snowed in many parts of the Lower Mainland today and March was colder than average. The sun came out in the afternoon and I could almost sense the plants stretching out to trying to find the warmth. You can find the world in something so seemingly simple as a…
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(84/366) Star Light, Star Bright…
March 24, 2012 – Isn’t that a lovely evening view? I’m just so grateful to actually see a sky without clouds. And what a wonderful day it was, I didn’t even mind that I had to work. Why wouldn’t I mind working on a sunny Saturday? Because I was able to ride to work, and a great ride it was.…
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(81/366) Spring Greening
March 21, 2012 – I love the smells and colours that come with Spring. The tang of freshly cut grass reminds me of the pleasures of just lying on the lawn, staring up at the clouds, looking for shapes and finding wondrous creatures in the random swirling of water in the sky. Plucking a blade of grass from the ground…
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