Archive for August, 2009
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
The Taste of Materialized Sunshine
(Sorry for the lack of photos. The internet has not been co-operating in the aspect lately.) Blueberries, Blackberries, Tomatoes, Peppers, Cucumbers, Cabbage, Carrots. These are the tastes of materialized sunshine, rain drops and dirt. The miracle of it astounds me. When I pluck a blue blueberry from a bush, as I did this morning, and [...]
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
It’s Time Wasted
I’m sitting at work. Watching the minutes tick by. It’s the waste of time that is hardest to swallow. With so much else to do.
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
The Strength in Peace
I watched “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” last night, as a prescreening because I managed to get the movie to the film group on Pender Island. It will be showing September 19th. This is a very inspiration movie about Liberian women who were tired of the war, they stood up for their rights and [...]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Berry Love
We’re finishing up with blueberries and we are onto blackberries. They are my favourite berry of all the berry kingdom. Unfortunately they are the most scratchy to pick. And they stain. But there is no replacing that melt-in-your mouth flavour. So last night I stuffed my face with blackberries straight from the bush. This morning [...]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Fall Fair & Consorting with Garlic
Yesterday was the Fall Fair. This is the biggest event on Pender Island. I was manning an educational booth on beekeeping. I had a display hive that people could disassemble and play with. I had an observation hive with a queen (I painted a yellow dot on her back so people could spot her.) I [...]