Eye Candy: Misty Mailboxes

I have "gone fishing." Well, gone driving through country roads lined with vividly hued trees; gone to enjoy an artists' tour; gone to gobble turkey with family.
I shall return refreshed, dear readers, and happy to share local news once again. And perhaps the odd stunning pic from this weekend.
In the meantime, eat some turkey, hug some family members and be thankful.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Vanessa

Eye Candy: Frosted Trees

Happy Thanksgiving to the Yanks in the crowd. Gobble, gobble.
And Happy Hanukkah, too.
We're certainly getting into the thick of celebration season now -- no denying it.
If you celebrate Christmas, I thought that this picture might spark some Christmas Spirit in you.
My sister took it at her farm in Westport this week (an hour southwest of Ottawa.) While we got snow, they got SNOW!!!
Do you suppose it was scenes like this that inspired heavy frosting on cakes? Hm.
Enjoy!
Vanessa

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope that your Thanksgiving weekend was full of crunchy leaves, yummy turkey and fun times with family and friends.
Cheers,
Vanessa

Happy Thanksgiving!

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts
are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving

It's Thanksgiving and I won't be posting. I'm off giving thanks for family, turkey and fall colours.
But it occurs to me that a neighbour's new book was written partly to give thanks, so it's an appropriate post to leave you with on this sunny, glorious Thanksgiving weekend.

When My World Was Very Small: A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch by Ruth Rakoff is about many things. One of them is the incredible depth of generosity and caring in our tight-knit, downtown community.

I know that some people marvel that I'm raising my children "right downtown," as though The Annex and Seaton Village is a dangerous concrete jungle.
Read the book and then get back to me.

I, too, have been the recipient of the incredible generosity that is alive and well in our area and Ruth and I were on each other's "food brigades."

As the title suggests, food is one of the topics in the memoir, which makes it a doubly appropriate read on this weekend that's also about turkey and pumpkin pie.

Yes -- plenty to be thankful for.

Happy reading and happy dining!
Vanessa