News from The Villa

You can tell that the weather is bringing us outdoors again. Lots going on around the neighbourhood, including a visit from the arborists to tend to the trees in the Villa. I first hired arborists as a DYS to tend to some our trees at Camp Selkirk and found it to be very beneficial. So…

Sunshine on my shoulder

Winter on the prairies is quite different than the ones I have experienced east of here. I’ve spent winters in Newfoundland – the Avalon Peninsula – and in St. John New Brunswick as well as Southern Ontario, and those winters are dull, cloudy and have a not-so-lovely tone of cloud and darkness. But out here…

A splash of colour

For those of you who live in warmer climates, where the flowers begin to bloom in February, you may not be able to appreciate the joy of seeing colour begin to dot the landscape at this time of the year. Here we are, the people of the great white north celebrating that colour is now…