the first day of christmas

oh my cookie recipe - sigh - how sweet (miss you t)... i am starting a new tradition in the slightly more alarming realm of don't electricute the bb...

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"It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

perhaps the opposite can be said sometimes as well - do not forget to make time to dream (it has been a little busy around here). tango - love the coloured clothes pegs... we took bb boy to stand under the massive lit tree @ english bay just as dusk was rolling in.

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i am canadian

we are canadian - in case anyone was wondering... can we be more stereotypical than this red rose & the products of the lovely maple (t did you take a suitcase of syrup with you?):

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a stitch in time

i couldn't quite remember the meaning of the saying, so i looked it up (i hear that internet has all kinds of useful information):

A stitch in time saves nine. The question usually asked is "saves nine what"? The stitch in time is simply the sewing up of a small hole in a piece of material and so saving the need for more stitching at a later date, when the hole has become larger, Clearly, the first users of this expression were referring to saving nine stitches.

there were several hundred examples of procrastination in my home (none of which made a good photo). &, oddly, the hole was already in the jeans (the most expensive pair i have ever purchased) i was sucked in so easily by my husband saying 'hmm, those are sexy" (or was it mmm).

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Our lives teach us who we are.

an interesting question : are we what we make of our lives or do our decisions & our destinations teach us more about who we really are? living in the mountains of portugal, knitting & planting herbs seemingly far from the cga world; or wrapped in the hustle & bustle of the city but listening carefully to the whisper of nature & passing that along to the little one who is fascinated by every little thing.

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right is ~d~

this is 8000clicks between chicks

from dusk till dawn

ok - i must say - that was much more difficult than i expected. away in the country for thanksgiving weekend, working all day then getting my butt back out of the house for a post dusk photoshoot just seemed a bit beyond me. but here it tis...

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on the road

in the spirit of 'better late than never' & international relations, tango november & djbeat have joined shutter forces once again to bring you this highly poignant yet brief message regarding what 'on the road' means to them: literally or figuratively (or on the seawall as it turns out)...

oooh - i like how this came together...

water

water a source of life - interesting in a droplet, calming in a trickle & powerful in a torrent; the capacity to reflect, to move & to amuse... bb boy is facinated by water in the many forms he has been introduced & he loves to water the garden.

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right is ~d~

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home

home is & takes meaning from so many elements - the people, the moods, the memories, the sounds, the things & the thoughts... today in portugal it is a surfer, ochre & a harmonica : in vancouver it is a toddler & a teddie & formula 1...

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between the lines

we were reading between the lines this week - the vineyard and the newly refinished deck (here comes the rain edition).

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refresh me

ok - i have decided to post... it is 6 days past the end of mat leave & the counter started ticking UP not DOWN i am taking that as a sign... we are still alive.

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it's red

it's red hot in portugal & the sun has burnished my first red ripe tomato.

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breakfast is the most important meal of the day

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this is 8000clicks between two chicks

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today marks the first day of what we hope will be our weekly hug across 8000 kilometers. two girlfriends, once inseperable, now living two very different lives - one in vancouver & one in the mountains of portugal... this is 8000clicks between two chicks.

summer harvest

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