Saturday Photo: Last Year’s Lilacs
This morning I'm going to go hack away at the neighbor's lilac bushes. This is what they looked like last year--fragrant and really lovely. But after the fire, the workers…
Mary Soderstrom
No Post on Friday: Was Blogger out Bagging Some Rays?
Couldn't post yesterday because gremlins got into Blogger. Things seem to be back to normal now, and it was such a lovely day here, I had the whimsical thought that…
A Film Made the Day that Jeanne Was Born!
St. Henri, the 26th of August is a film made by 17 film makers for the National Film Board of Canada. It was featured last week at the 2011 Hot…
May: The Change is Magic
Within a couple of days of warm weather, leaves burst out on the trees here, changing the whole world for the better.Since this photo was taken, the canopy has become…
Making Religion Green: Quebec Catholic Churches to Use Local Wine for Mass
Don't know whether it's due to climate change or to astute winegrape growing, but vinyards in Quebec have begun producing some not-too-terrible wines. The latest recognition of this comes from…