There were four western maple trees growing in the lot upon which I built my house. Two were in the strip of front lawn, clear of foundations, but when the builders came to overhead wiring they found one of the trees interfered. The line-men cut it down. The…
I had never before had the opportunity of observing the close-up of married life. My parents died when I was young. We four spinster sisters lived on in the old home. My girlhood friends who married went to live in other cities. I did not know what “till-death-do-us-part” did…
At first, anxious to make people feel at home, happy in my house, I permitted the keeping of a dog or a cat, and I endured babies. My Old English Bobtail Sheep-dogs lived in kennels beyond the foot of my garden. They had play fields. The tenants never came…
hosted, designed & maintained by Marilyn Jones for the courses, presentations, tours, talks & walks she offers on Emily Carr in person and online from Victoria, BC.