This spring in Vancouver has been so reluctant to arrive and still our weather is unseasonably cold, with a wind that penetrates any jacket.
The blossoms are unperturbed though.
Best of health, naturally,
Nina
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Yesterday, going through Van Dusen Gardens (37th and Oak) here in Vancouver, I saw witch hazel shrubs in blossom for the first time ever. There is very little blooming in the gardens at this time of year, and so the clear yellow of the witch hazel flowers stand out in even greater contrast against the [...] O, Canada! Bronzed and green leaves frame Canada’s maple leaf flag at a federal building in downtown Vancouver. We can walk into the fall, in awe of nature’s beauty. No need to travel east this year to see fall colours. We have plenty here in Western Canada. A rainy day in Vancouver – a chance to try out the rainworthiness of my new rain boots from China via France! They kept me dry thru puddles! Being absent from one’s home sharpens one’s senses to all that’s familiar and dear. I’ve recently found a great hairdresser in downtown Vancouver: Cathryn Schultz at David Blue’s Salon, Suite 1220, 736 Granville Street. What’s great is that she can cut my hair in a shape I like and she doesn’t complain that it’s too thick or too grey or any other thing that other hairdressers have told me. In a garden of a house in Collingwood on the eastern edge of Vancouver, there are about twenty fig trees, growing figs, mostly in pairs, ripe and succulent. Some of the trees are growing so close together, you can’t tell where one tree ends and the next tree starts. Yesterday, they were bearing fruit prolifically. Did you know that July 19 is Canada’s Parks Day? Amazingly, we had lunch with family and friends at our youngest granddaughter’s 1st birthday at Granville Island, one of Vancouver’s great parks. What a great location – right by the water park, the water slide, the sandpit, the grass. And the weather was perfect – [...] |
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