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Garden

So that Loaded Christmas Cactus Opened

And it’s still flowering! I moved it into the kitchen from the living room and set it on the central island there, as my coffee table (old vintage blue trunk) gets filled quickly with knick knacks, namely art supplies as I sit and doodle on the couch.

I’m officially renaming this Christmas Cactus, Birthday Cactus. The [...]

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Loaded Christmas Cactus!

Have you ever seen so many buds on a Christmas Cactus?
My mom gave me this cactus when I moved into my house a few months ago. She has three or four of them growing in her house. I sat the cactus in the sun room and forgot about it. I really did forget about it. [...]

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Front yard flower – Lily

You know how you move into a new home and you’ve got no clue what was planted or not planted, will grow or not grow, is a weed or not a weed; with the latter being the most important question.
So, I just let it all grow this summer to see what popped up.
Well, this lovely [...]

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Backyard Blossom – The Miniature Plum Tree

This tree is loaded with pretty petite white blossoms. Each blossom turns into a miniature plum complete with mini pit and at the mature size of a blueberry they are the sweetest little plums I’ve ever had the pleasure of eating.
I’ll be regularly updating the Garden 2009 Set on Flickr with both photos from my [...]

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Secret #4 – Saying Good Bye

One sunny afternoon I sat on my deck in Vancouver, brush in hand not knowing what to paint. I stared down at the piece of two by two foot freshly gessoed masonite board firmly planted on my lap. The sky was ultramarine blue, the garden glowing green and most colourful that day in late July, [...]

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Secret #1 – Learn to Grow Food

In my last post I said I have many secrets. And this is the first post in which I’ll share with you my hopes in becoming less reliant on the machine created by man. Through the use of technology and ancient wisdom we do indeed have the knowledge today to become more independent and in [...]

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About Wearing Industrial Breathing Masks or the Fine Line Between Hammer and Pen.

Often, I’ve thought that it you devoted your life to doing the things you love then the money would follow. Last month I wrote a test. The test was three weeks in duration. The final grade was fantastic.
Come the middle of June I’ll begin testing again. This time however there is no fail safe… nothing [...]

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Growing Beautiful in the Garden of Eden

Drawn with professional Pilot pens and painted with Windsor and Newton Watercolor on very thick acid free textured cream colored stock. It is an ACEO which stands for Art Cards, Editions and Originals.
Size – 2.5 by 3.5 inches
Update – The original has sold. Prints are available in 5×7 inch and ACEO mini print size in [...]

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Monday HA ha – Worms Good Here?

Usually have a piece of large paper or mat board that get used as a tester for color or to get my pen working during a moment of angst when it is not flowing, and even to draw upon when the drawing you are drawing sucks!
As is the case…
I began singing this song in my [...]

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About turning soil in the backyard sunshine

Today I’ll be working outside in the dirt. Dad and I turned half the garden last night removing any weeds still growing underneath from the previous soil turning two weeks ago.
Gardening on the ground is not the same as gardening in containers. Holy weeds! It’s really not that bad. I’ve dawned Dad’s old work clothes [...]

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Saturday and Sunday – Final 2 Days of the Moving BACK-EAST Sale.

This weekend marks the last weekend I will be living in Vancouver BC. It is also the last two of six days of the Moving BACK-EAST Sale to find great things for sale in my apartment & on the deck.
Time – Noon to 4:00
When – Saturday & Sunday
Date – May 26th & 27th
Buzz #402 at [...]

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It is 25 cent night at the Moving BACK-EAST sale – Day 4

Here is the Craigslist link with today’s information (Wednesday) on the Moving BACK-EAST sale.
And that is me standing by the roses on the deck taken late *last summer (2006) by my ex, Eric.
I still love you dude.

*I am missing camera parts so I can’t take a pic of myself standing by the this year’s rose [...]

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Day 2 – yelling at people on neighboring penthouse decks

The moving BACK-EAST sale day 2
UPDATED – items no longer available are crossed out
Today and tomorrow (Monday & Tuesday) – rain or shine
Afternoon from 2:00 to 4:00
Evening from 6:00 to 8:00
Buzz #402 at 2228 Franklin St.
Vancouver BC
Click here for the google map to get to my place.

Yesterday despite the torrential rainfalls Vancouver is experiencing I [...]

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The Moving BACK-EAST sale

Moving BACK-EAST Sale
I move East to New Brunswick in 9 days.
Come to my Penthouse Apartment Sale in EastVancouver on Sunday (today – rain or shine).

I have a large rooftop deck garden that must go. I am taking offers on everything including the contents of the apartment. Haggle with me if you like until we [...]

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How to begin

…by saying that these days are crystal clear and in a semi-holding patterns. Faces are ingrained to memory as is the place, apartment and it’s things. What would you keep? What would you sell? I sold my desk. It stood first and was purchased 3 days ago. IKEA has decent resale value in Vancouver. Something [...]

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Losing cats on airplanes and selling it off

I arrived with two suitcases and two carry-ons four years ago. Now, I have a fully furnished two bedroom apartment with mature potted greenery growing outside on the deck.
Going
going
gone.
I need to purchase a large cat pet carrier for Missy as she will be traveling in the airplane’s baggage compartment. The last time she flew in [...]

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Into the containers go seeds soil water and 10-55-10

The Sunday before last I worked outside in my garden clearing away debris. The flowers are popping up through the remnant grossness of Vancouver winter.
I readied soil to plant seeds in. I planted 16 each of red leaf, green leaf and romaine lettuce. I dug out the red onion seeds I had harvested from last [...]

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Stench on my pants

The stench of manure wafted upwards, entering my nostrils as the garbage bag tore along the bottom seam. I heaved it to the ground, looked down and frowned a mishchievious smile, cursing the rotton plant matter I was carrying. Then thanked the gods that this black bag held itself together, before leaking dark brown liquid, [...]

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Barefoot and picking carrots in the snow

The world surrounding me is white, fluffy and icy. The trees are insulated against the approaching cold now. The ground had been warm before the snowstorm, causing ice sheets to form beneath the blanketed Lower Mainland. I have been laughing for two days strait, at the onslaught of a winter with snow. So fine to [...]

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Sitting on a pillow

Drawn using a Pilot G-tec C4 pen onto acid free paper from my journal and photographed on deck.
I spent some time yesterday cleaning up the deck, sweeping the remnants of life into piles of debris. Twigs, dead flowers, cotten tie strings and leaves had found their way down to the deck for the winter. The [...]

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