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 1. This climbing rose, which I suspect might be New Dawn,  began the season well, but then suffered a very persistent campaign by aphids, which not surprisingly resulted in an affliction of powdery mildew. Mid-summer, I got fed up, and I chopped it right back. I mean. . . WAY back. And then it started sending up healthy green shoots, and we picked up a few "environmentally safe" pesticides, and  this happened! It looks as if we'll have roses through at least the end of September, if not longer. . ..

2. And although this photo was taken almost a month ago, it's representative of so very many moments, almost daily, when I look over at this glass wall and thrill again at the light. We've been in the condo for just over a year now, and these last few months of very noisy, very dusty construction just across the lane have been tough, particularly with windows and doors open because of the summer heat. But that's settling down now, and the construction is less aggravating as they close in the building and move indoors (within the next two months, we hope). And I still love the light here. Good news, eh?

3. Out for a walk in the neighbourhood a few weeks ago, I glimpsed this building down a block or so, and was somehow drawn towards it.  That sign says it's the home of the Vancouver Welsh Society, and standing in front of it, I could sense my inner 11-year-old stirring, trying to remember the words she'd recited from the stage inside, for the annual Welsh Eisteddfod Festival. We'd had a Welsh elocution teacher at my school for a couple of years, until she and her husband and two young daughter moved away. I competed in a monologue class or two (something from Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest) and given a speech, in another class, on racism in Canada.

I'm sure any passers-by must have wondered what that grey-haired woman was muttering to herself in front of this handsome brick edifice. . . . And why was she smiling. . . .

 4. This is just to say I may have fallen down the Rabbit Hole labeled Pens and Inks. Fountain pens, that is, of which I still only own three, one of which I don't love and only use rarely. I did buy two new dip pens yesterday (and nibs for them, of course), so that I don't have to wait for the fountain pens to be empty should I want to write a card in a new colour. And so far, I only have four colours, one of which was only purchased yesterday (Red Velvet, if you're curious).

But this lovely is very, very tempting. A friend of my daughter's, a lovely young woman who's not only fallen down the rabbit hole but may have built her own little warren, brought a big box of her pens and inks over for me to test out. What an afternoon that was -- Rosé wine, and the delectable French pastries she brought, and a big box of wonderful writing accoutrements. Preschoolers couldn't have opened new boxes of Playmobil with any more glee than that with which I greeted the stationery goodies (oh, and she brought some fabulous samples of paper as well -- yummy!

 5. Let me wind up here, this Friday, with another photo from the walk on which I discovered that architectural blast from my past -- this is a back lane in a residential neighbourhood nearby. I can't help but marvel at how it seems worlds away from our back lane or, even more, from the mural-filled, very gritty, very urban back lane I showed you in Wednesday's post. . . .

This photo looks like something I could have photographed on our island, blackberries and all.

Now I have to run. I'm doing some before-school baby-sitting just down the road, and I'm needed there by 6:45. Not even time to edit properly. . . . Comments, etc. ... . .

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