Category: Gardens & Gardening

My regular readers will have noticed that I didn’t go very far from home this past summer. What began as a simple (but very expensive) replacement of our complete septic system turned into a major landscaping project which lasted the entire season. The main component of the landscaping is...

Thursday was our last day to tour Vancouver before boarding our cruise ship, and it was only a partial day as we had to change hotels and then meet our friends from Ontario mid-afternoon. As a result, Chinatown, and in particular the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens, were our primary...

On Monday we had a broad overview of Vancouver, yesterday we visited a few of the many attractions to see the details. This was the view from our 9th-floor room at the Westin Bayshore. A local we chatted with yesterday pointed out that while the downtown areas of many...