Spring is in the air

Okay, so it’s the minus numbers and the garden is hidden under snow! I admit that’s true but Saturday we bugged over to Salisbury Greenhouse and just walking in gave the greatest feeling of being in June! Oh, my. What a wonderful sensation. Bright, warm, humid… and flowers! There’s a lushness to these places that…

And we’re home

Dorothy clicks the heels of her lovely and now famous red shoes while reciting, as directed, “there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home!” With that of course she is spun up into the air and suddenly is back on her bed with Auntie Emme! If only getting home was that easy! Our…

A reunion

So I’m going to date myself here. In 1969 we moved, as a family, to Scarborough. We had been in Hamilton for the previous three years and I had never heard of Scarborough – Toronto yes, Scarborough no. It wasn’t long before I began to understand how the boroughs worked. Toronto as a whole was…