Tired of wrapping, cleaning, baking, shopping, decorating? Then it must be time for a game of internet tag! My friend Charmian Christie who...

Time now for something completely different. We live in Scotts Bay, a tiny community at the end of the North mountain in Nova Scotia's A...

We have our live, green balsam fir Christmas tree up and decorated, and while we don’t go overboard with the interior décor, the house look...

It’s that time of year again…when we’re rushing around, madly trying to decide what to give as Christmas gifts to those near and dear to our...

Be warned: this is a bit of a rant. I’ve seen it all, now. I thought my friend Alice was joking when she told me she had seen blue poinsetti...

During a marathon garden cleanup over several of the few sunny days we’ve experienced in November, I’ve managed to get two beds more or less...

Confession is good for the gardener’s soul, and I’m never one to shy away from admitting my gardening mistakes—whoops, that’s supposed to re...

That’s an often-heard prognostication made by Maritime weather forecasters, trying to justify all the science and computer generated models ...

Well. After four days of gale force winds shaking the house and stripping most leaves from trees and shrubs, the wind finally exhausted itse...

Nice to know that I'm loved--or at least, that some folks enjoy reading my bloggy wanderings. I've had several emails in the last we...

Well, that’s about how I felt on Sunday morning, after getting into Windsor late Saturday night. Nice surprise at the Hilton when I got ther...

High on my list of places you gotta go is the Royal Botanical Gardens , located in Burlington/Hamilton. What a great time I had visiting thi...

I’m a trooper when it comes to visiting gardens. After rolling into Toronto at nearly 11 pm, where the highlight of the trip was being met b...

I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I arrived in Ottawa, en route to visiting Kingsmere, Willam Lyon Mackenzie King’s estate, located...

Montreal’s second masterpiece It’s a fairly long bus ride through the congestion of downtown Montreal, from the Midtown Holiday Inn (where I...

If you’re going to be in Montreal in the next couple of weeks, you gotta go see Flora. If you’re not going to be there in that time, wait t...