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Vegetable garden in local public park

Colony Farm

In July 2022 we explored Colony Farm Park in Coquitlam.  I have always been curious about that piece of land across from the old Riverview Hospital tucked in between Lougheed Hwy and the confluence of the Fraser and Coquitlam Rivers. We revisited last week. Oh what a pleasant day.  The

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Singalong around organ

The Family Photographer

Closing out this week I finished two things. The first was going through a large box of photos that had been stored at my stepdad’s place.  He died, sadly, in 2021 nine years after my mother.  The box was passed on to me, but I only just started going through

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The concept of growing food

Diapers and Potatoes

Just before Easter weekend this year I found out that we won the lottery for a tiny community garden allotment. It was raining hard that whole weekend and when we hiked down to check it out the community garden was all puddles and mud.  Our wee plot was full of

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