Category Archives: Top Picks

Happy New Year & 2019!   We just got back on Monday from our Christmas in Southern California visiting with family, so please excuse me if I haven’t stopped by your blog lately.  I plan to do so soon. We had … Continue reading →

Well we’ve come about full circle now. It’s the last month of the year and one of the best — especially in the days following Christmas and Hanukkah — for reading and reflection. It’s not over just yet but the … Continue reading →

Greetings. It’s now November so we are down to two months left of the year.  How are your reading goals going?  Mine are off-track, but it’s okay I’m not going to freak out just yet. There’s been lots of distractions … Continue reading →

Well we’ve made it to October and a big snowstorm just dumped about eight inches of white powder last night. Yikes, I kid you not — so much for fall (as pictured at left.) This photo was taken before the … Continue reading →

Greetings, Happy Labor Day.  If you can believe it, it’s September already. Where did the summer go? I don’t know about your area, but there’s a nip of fall in the air here now.  It’s cool, though luckily the smoke … Continue reading →

August might just pass me by if I’m not careful. The days are whizzing by and our area has been in the midst of a heat wave this past week. It just reached the hottest temperature ever on record here … Continue reading →

Summer is busy, is it not?  It seems Canadians try to fit everything they can do into a short summer season — and now I’m guilty of this too. I’ve got too many things in the frying pan so to … Continue reading →

Hooray, we’ve made it to June and the full summer is ahead of us.  It’s the best time of year here if only it could last longer (the northern summers are too short!).  Still it’s enough just to make every … Continue reading →

Greetings. I was away last week playing in a tennis tournament in Victoria, B.C., so I’ve been absent from the blog for a while. I flew over the mountains to the coast and should have taken a photo coming in … Continue reading →

I hope everyone had a nice Easter and/or spring break. We were in the mountains last weekend where we had a lovely couple of days of cross-country skiing.  There’s still plenty of snow out there and the track conditions were … Continue reading →