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Vancouver - March 22, 2022

Emerging from the winter of 2021-22, I am more eager than ever to notice signs of spring. This Vancouver winter seems to have been longer than ever; after all we live here because we don’t want to shovel snow. Once again, we didn’t travel outside Canada, giving ourselves the excuse of rising airfares, but it could have been Covid that discouraged us and our irrational desire to wait out the challenges at home. And then there were the three long periods of snow and ice, when we in Vancouver are accustomed to one to three days at the most of sub-zero temperatures and snow.

Vancouver - January 18, 2022

When is a tree not a tree? When it’s a palm, a single-stemmed monocotyledon.