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Autumn Splendour

This weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving, and today I’m giving thanks for the splendours of autumn.  All week the colours have been spectacular!     This  view along the driveway at Glen Villa gives some idea of how brilliant the colour is.     On the stone wall of the house, Engelman ivy is a symphony of…

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The Darling Buds of May

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate;   Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.                        — William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 provided the title for…