Even More Les Quatre Vents Pics

OK – these are the last for now. The rest will pop up here and there. This was taken in the Japanese garden area – it’s the tea house. The waterfall beside the Japanese teahouse The wild garden walk beside the house

My Latest Air Canada Adventure

There are times that I wonder how Air Canada stays in business. I need to travel to Portland in September to the garden writers conference (I’ve been threatened with the loss of back-of-the-bus party membership status if I don’t show up after a few years of absence). I do the basic research and call the [...]

It’s a tough job but

Somebody has to do it. Last weekend in Chicago was “interesting”. The fire alarm went off in the hotel at 3:30am ( a real fire) and we evacuated. An hour later you still couldn’t stand the plastic smell so we went and had breakfast (beat standing or sitting around outside) At 5:30 we got back [...]