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photography vancouver

View from Spanish Banks – A Panorama

  Location: Spanish Banks, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Vancouver city pictured) – taken January 15, 2012 at approx. 2pm Photo info: taken with a iPhone 4s, slightly zoomed, stitched together with Photoshop – no touch-ups or effects.

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photography vancouver

Clouds over water – A Panorama

Location: Kits Beach, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo info: captured on an iPhone 4s and stitched together in Photoshop (no effects added – those clouds are 100% natural!).

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personal reflection research writing

Steven Pressfield’s, “Do The Work”

“A child has no trouble believing in the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” – Steven Pressfield, Do The Work This is not a review – yes I enjoyed the book, but, having just finished […]

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Christmas Baking #FAIL

I just spent three weeks baking for Christmas – no, I am not exaggerating – I made the following goodies: Fruit Cake Sugar Cookies – iced and sugared Santa Whiskers Gingerbread – decorated, but tradition not as zombies, regular & mini Shortbread – chocolate-dipped and un-dipped Icing Sugar Chocolates Caramel – plain, chocolate-dipped, dipped & […]

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Knitting photography vancouver

Yarn bombing…

It has been especially quiet around here for over a month, and while some of that time off was forced upon me (I was rather unwell through November into December), the later half of December was a self-imposed holiday filled with much baking and entertaining and holiday fun. Through all this the weather has been […]

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cats personal reflection photography weaving

A conversation with Leo…

“What? What are you talking about Feeder? A Christmas scarf for your sister? Your loom?!” “Human insanity. This clearly a cat bed. With yarn toys conveniently attached. Now let me sleep in peace. Can’t you see the sunbeam I’m soaking?”

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Around The Web Wednesday…

After The Virus is the Kindle Sponsor of the Day over at David Wisehart’s blog, Kindle Author! 3 new 4 star reviews over at Amazon: “Great debut novel of a post apocalyptic world in which females are hunted” by Cheryl M-M, “Love among the post-apocalypse” by puggle, and “Good Book” by M. hampton. In other book […]

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A review of Suzie Ivy’s “Bad Luck Cadet”

I first stumbled across Suzie Ivy via her blog, Bad Luck Detective, and last week I was happy to see that she had released her first book, Bad Luck Cadet, which I believe is a collection of her early blog posts. I immediately bought and then, very soon after, read Suzie’s book. I really liked […]

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Harbinger #FlashFiction – round up

How about a by weekly round up of the Flash Fictions currently available for “A Year Before Harbinger”? Please note: These are unedited, non-proofed first drafts. The three entries so far are: – September 30, 2011 – Peace of Mind? – October 14, 2011 – Meaning to the madness? – October 28, 2011 – Not […]

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Around The Web Wednesday…

Writer Suzie Ivy recently read and reviewed my novel, After The Virus – “Bad guys become good, worse guys stay bad and humanity fights for what’s right. What more could I ask for? Oh and then Doidge added zombies. Bottom line, I loved this book!” A brand new project of mine can be found over at Yesterday’s […]