Celebrating last summer long weekend in Granville Island
Visiting Granville Island can be just what you need to pick up your spirit.
Located across False Creek from downtown Vancouver, it offers dining, food shops, and boutiques.
Although not its usual vibrant self due to Covid19 closures and health and safety protocols in place, it is still a special place to meet and share a beautiful moment with friends and family.
Have a bloomin' good day
As the Covid19 pandemic enters its sixth month in the lower mainland area, we are all wondering when - and if - it will ever be eradicated. Our lives have been totally upended by this disease, some more so than others.
I hope this short video will put a smile on your face and in your heart - even if only for a brief moment.
Steveston Alive!
It seems like an eternity ago, but last summer I and a friend had the pleasure of participating in the Steveston Alive! walking tour.
Presented by the Steveston Historical Society and the Steveston Museum, we were treated to a play in five parts.
Drama students from Steveston-London Secondary School and returning cast members from sister school Hugh McRoberts Secondary escorted us through historical landmarks and presented vignettes that recreated Steveston's history and the hardships that early immigrants had to endure to survive and thrive in their newly adopted community.
Let's hope that the walking tour will return once the Covid19 pandemic is over. I, for one, can't wait to see it again.
Childhood drawings
Do you have an attic crammed full with your children's artwork? Have you started to separate those to treasure from those to throw away? It's quite difficult, as any parent could attest.
I know Marie Kondo recommends keeping only things that give you joy. Well, what if they all do? Or, worse, what if your child one day asks for the very ones that you have been tempted to put through the shredder?
Well, with digital technology you don't have to decide. At least not right away. You can keep them on a hard drive, a USB stick, or in other repository you have handy. And if you have enough time, or energy, you can even categorize them for future search and retrieval.
I took photos of some of my daughter's childhood drawings and put them into a slideshow. When I have a second here or there, I would play it and relive her obsessions with unicorns, dinosaurs, mice, birds, Ariel the mermaid, and pet cat Chico. Ah childhood memories, they are priceless!
