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Good Monday morning!

We're in the middle of what constitutes a heat wave here in normally rainy Vancouver -- no rain for a week or so and there's none forecast for the next week, with daily high temperatures of 25 today, moving to 27 by the end of the week. . . Mostly pleasant enough, I know, except that our condo exterior walls are mainly glass, and we face directly west. Plus if you know condo life, you know there are never enough windows to get a really good breeze through the bedroom. . . And so far, we don't have air-conditioning.  So. I might be cranky before this little run of sunshine is over. . . Trying not to dwell too much on that beach I used to dip in three or four times a summer day when we lived on the island. . .

Today, we're heading off to visit our daughter and her family at a campsite ninety minutes outside the city. I'm not so keen on the drive (the car's not air-conditioned), but I'm looking forward to big trees and lake swimming and watching the Littles play outdoors.

But before I go, I'm sharing this little sketch and journal page from another trip to some green space, a space much nearer, right here in the city -- the VanDusen Botanical Garden, scene of our weekly date, arranged by Pater.

I'll transcribe for you:
On the top left: Rose hips in the shade, VanDusen Garden, July 22nd, 2018
We pedaled our bikes here -- it's all uphill and there's one killer along 37th, that I grumbled fiercely about when we did this last year. But Paul had Google-calendared me an "invitation" to a bike-and-lunch date and that did seem a decent use to make of a sunny July day.
Got the loaves of bread in and out of the oven by 10:15 -- poor planning, really, to bake in this heat when it's already tough to cool the condo. 
Still, got those baked, had a slice each with soft-boiled egg, and we were on our bikes by 10:40, at the garden 11:10, walking and making notes on candidates for our own garden shortly after.
Pleasant lunch in the restaurant there, although the demographic holds up an uncomfortable mirror. . . 
Reading Ursula LeGuin's No Time To Spare though and agree with her that denial of our incipient old age is foolish. . . 

I sketched this in pencil, standing and crouching on the path in the shade beside the rose bush. At home, I used pencil crayons to colour the sketch -- they're watercolour pencil crayons, and I painted some water lightly over the painted areas, but this paper doesn't tolerate much moisture. As well, the pencils aren't the quality I'd like now, now that I know a bit better. I bought them five or six years ago in a first burst of excitement and enthusiasm at crashing down the "not artistic" barrier that had always kept art materials out of my purview.  Now I'm determined to use them up so that I can buy better!

And before I throw my swimsuit and towel in a bag and head out the door (Pater's already in the shower, so momentum is now in the direction of departure. . . ) . . . I've posted my End-of-June Halfway-through-the-year 2018 Reading List over on my book blog -- I've linked some books to posts where I wrote about them and added brief comments for those that didn't get their own posts -- If you're looking for a book to tuck in that beach bag (or if, like me, you'd just as soon read in shade in the garden, even indoors), you might find a few good possibilities there. (As I mention in that book-blog post, you'll also find some great suggestions at Sue's.

Okay, gotta run -- there's a lake waiting for my splashes, some Littles to play hide-and-seek with. . . Comments always welcome, thank you!

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