I know.  You do not usually see people in my post photos. Meet my sister, Jen, who as you can tell, is a hoot!  A week ago today (mid summer holiday for me) our family spent a whole fabulous, lazy day at the beach.  The umbrella in this picture was covering my poor...

As I sit in my warm, sunny apartment on my first official day of holidays, I'm aware of the arbiters of hot weather (also known as cicadas) lilting outside my window.  A perfect day to recount another perfect day.  On Sunday, I continued my magical mystery tour of...

A couple of weeks back I had the good fortune to take yet another business trip to the Province of Saskatchewan.  This was my first visit without snow on the ground.  Awesome!  Everything was green and the sky was HUGE.  I can see why license plates say "Land of the...