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Victoria, BC - Inner Harbor I was in Victoria four years ago for the JASNA AGM of 2022 , and I fell in love with this lovely city on Vancouv...

 Just back from two weeks and a day on the road. Our destination was Victoria, BC for the annual Classic Boat Show, but we decided to take f...

  Queen's Play is the second book in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles series. This time, Francis Crawford of Lymond, travels to ...

Yes, this is just how I see myself! I enjoyed reading everyone's Top Ten Tuesday posts last week so much that I decided to do my own......

  August is upon us, which means afternoon thunderstorms in Colorado and the garden is finally starting to produce. I picked tomatoes and pe...

  Long, Bright River by Liz Moore - I enjoyed The God of the Woods by the same author so much that I decided to read this earlier book, pu...

Summer is blockbuster season, and I've jumped on the bandwagon with both feet, reading Whistler, like everyone else, and going to see Th...

Constance at Staircase Wit reminded me that I really ought to read The Lymond Chronicles , by Dorothy Dunnett, as part of my Reading Scotlan...

July is for reading, walking first thing in the morning, watering in the evening, making salad and sandwiches for dinner, complaining about ...

I first read JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit in my teens in the 1970s, and I enjoyed it so much that I embarked on  The Fellowship of the Ring ...