Seasons
Mono no aware
October 3, 2015
I experience mono no aware most keenly in September and early October. It's not cherry blossoms that trigger for me this wistfulness and gentle sadness.
l'hiver au Quebec (Winter in Quebec)
January 21, 2015
"It's a simple reality: if you want to live in Quebec, you have to come to terms with the winter. It's the defining season of the place, the dominating inevitability."
What fall teaches me
October 14, 2013
What do you need to start guarding like a jealous lover? What priorities do you need to shift?
Wild raspberries
August 18, 2013
The wild raspberry harvest coincides with a slightly different season than I am used to.
The Green Living Update ~ closing the chapter
September 26, 2012
I’m here to spill the beans on what I still do and don’t still do in terms of homemade soap, garbage, recycling and compost (yes, I’ve written about all of these at FIMBY), gardening and homesteading type activities and other DIY and "sustainable" living practices.
Who Needs to Knit?
August 18, 2010
The last knitting project I was working on stalled at about this point: This photo is from last Christmas when I decided, after too many mistakes to count, to frog my first pair of socks. The fact that they are "froggy" green is simply a sweet irony. This brings the ...
