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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Clouds over water – A Panorama
Location: Kits Beach, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo info:Â captured on an iPhone 4s and stitched together in Photoshop (no effects added – those clouds are 100% natural!).
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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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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 […]
“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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In the garden: sunflower
Over 6 feet tall, grown from seed…not edible.
This is one of the new varieties of tomatoes we tried this year, Yellow Brandywine. The plant was huge, took a long time to fruit, and didn’t start ripening until mid-September, also it seemed to be very prone to powdery mildew, but they sure were tasty! I purchased the starter plant at the VanDusen Garden […]
In the bee garden…
These snapdragon were rather desperate to grow in the rose garden, even though I planted them on the other side of the back yard (where they declined to grow). I didn’t have the heart to rip them out and now they look like velvet – what a colour!!
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