Index of Posts

• Peepers, Blackflies and Gardening
• Digging up the Past
• Reasons for Moving to Rural Nova Scotia
• Life Happens
• Give Me One Reason to Stay Here…and I’ll turn right back around
• Meditating Chickens in Bear River
• Snow, Studio time and Spain
• Tradition and Innovation – art show
• The Year Ends at the Bay of Fundy
• Digital camera inspiration – training the eye and the mind
• Flora’s new Painting Website
• A Monk, the Harvest, Time Travel, Art, Music and Family
• Cordelia the Willow Tree – RIP
• Garden Paintings – closing invitation
• The Garden Winds Down
• Roasting Vegetables, Baking Bread and Drying Garlic
• Painting Zinnias
• Flora Doehler Paints the Town
• Midsummer in Bear River
• Painting the Vegetable Garden
• Why Growing Vegetables is like Running a Marathon
• May’s Garden Magic
• Mardi Gras in Bear River with Joe Murphy and the Water Street Blues Band.
• Copper Enamel Necklaces Launch this Weekend
• Birthday in Africa, Nova Scotia
• House Tour
• To Do List
• Vote Strategically! Vote George Barron, NDP!
• Fresh Eggs and Greens
• From Parent to Child
• Spring Thaw Arrives in Bear River
• Having a Lemon Meringue Kind of Day
• Winter…..is it over soon??
• Studio Fever
• Fill up the Bathtub and Grab the Camera
• 100,000 Hits and Counting
• 2010 in review
• Gifts all Around
• Bear River Slideshow
• Food, Friends and Art in Bear River
• Toronto, my Hometown
• Home is where my Soul is.
• Vancouver – time to say goodbye
• Looking for Emily Carr in Vancouver
• Fall Colours in Bear River
• Roasted Tomato Sauce and Zucchini Boats
• Fall for Bear River…this weekend!
• Harvest Time
• Where did Hundreds of Gallons of Well Water Go?
• August Celebration
• Three Weeks in July
• Acrylic Painting Tutorial
• Filming Green Willow Studio
• Drought, Rain and Creativity
• Art and Music on a Friday night
• Garden Update
• Crepes + Flowers + Ocean + Family = One Happy Birthday
• April into May
• Saturday Night(s) in Bear River
• Meet Jolene the cow, Molly the pig, and Chick the chicken
• April Gardening and Yardwork
• Shocking the Well and a Painting Workshop
• Baking, Walking, Inspiration : same old, same old
• Caleb Miles performs in Bear River
• When it Rains, it Pours!
• Crows and Seagulls
• Virginia Cobb’s Painting Workshop
• Painting Together on Skype
• It’s Still Snowing
• The Well Again
• Well Woes Run Deep
• Top Blog Posts in 2009
• New Year’s Eve in Bear River
• Bringing in the Wood
• The Priceless Organic Salad
• Copenhagen : saving Bear River and the Rest of the World
• It’s all about Intention
• The Inspiration of Winter
• Kindred Spirits
• Art + Craft in Bear River = happiness
• We’re All Having the Same Dream
• Learning from our Children
• November in Bear River
• Hanging with the Flight of Fancy
• Putting the Garden to Bed and Visitors Arrive
• Why Did We Move to Bear River?
• Canadian Thanksgiving
• Out with the Old
• Virtual Friends Materialize
• End of Summer Gardening
• Our Awareness of Waste Water Deepens
• Our Awareness of Water Deepens
• Horses, Kitchens and Sunflowers
• Up on the Roof
• Five Years and 11 Minutes to the Swimming Hole
• Home Sweet Home
• Pottery – Unloading the Kiln
• Family Mythology
• Old Chairs after 33 years
• Cherry Carnival, Bear River
• Moving Day…..maybe.
• My Kingdom for an Electrician
• 11 Day Countdown
• Someone turned on the Lights!
• When Mother Nature gives you Lemons, make Lemonade!
• Altered Images in an Alternative Universe
• Dancing with the Rototiller Beast
• Floor Sanding ain’t for Sissies
• Gardening and other Diversions
• Planting with my new Shovel
• Renovation or Meditation?
• The Growing Surprises
• The Water Feature
• Painting with Oils
• Birthday on the Rocks
• Tin Foiled!
• Bear River – the Commercial
• Creativity and You and Me
• The New Vase
• Organic Gardening on the Kitchen Table
• Spring Thaw at the Creek
• Printmaking
• Renovation Update
• My New Class–in South Carolina
• Melting
• Political Action in Bear River
• Electricity, Plumbing and Snowshoes
• Bear River Volunteer Chain Gang
• Renovation update
• Evolution of a painting
• Stop Slip-Sliding Away
• Musicians in The Same Boat
• Bricks and Mortar
• Obama, On-demand
• Be Careful What you Wish for!
• Snowshoes and the bindings that hold them
• Dealing with Cabin Fever Between the Snow Storms
• A Work in Progress
• Empower Me Already
• Adult Parents and Adult Children
• When Solstice Winds Blow
• Water, Strength and History
• Snowed in
• The Demolition Continues
• Men in Trees
• When the Bough Breaks
• Fun in the Village
• Planting Leaves and Old Carpets
• The Best Laid Plans…
• Thinking about Cold Weather Gardening
• The Bare Uninsulated Truth
• Ground Breaking Action
• Living it up in Bear River with $16-a-litre Organic Apple Cider!
• We Bought a Time Machine
• Our New Old House
• Cape Breton – on top of Old Smokey
• Book Launch at the Oakdene
• September Rains
• Insights from the Blueberry Patch
• A Whale of a time in the Bay of Fundy
• Strong as an Ox – at the Digby County Exhibition
• When is a Woodpile like a Needle in a Haystack?
• Our Gothic Future in Bear River
• Gardening Teachings
• Tumbleweed Sings and Plays in Bear River
• Brier Island – camping on the Atlantic Ocean
• Visitors from a far off Land
• Air-conditioning – Bear River style
• Cherry Carnival – Volunteer Extravaganza
• A Fog and a Mirage
• Breakthrough #3 – painting
• Breakthrough #2 – rain and growth
• Breakthrough #1- painting the downstairs
• Music in Bear River – the charmed life continues…
• Canada Geese in the Garden
• Secret Lake Found and Lost in Nova Scotia
• Bear River at Low Tide
• Canada Geese on Canada Day
• William Wallace’s Sword in Digby
• Gallery Opening and the Secret Ingredient
• Painting the Living Room & Kitchen
• Gardening – the Reality Bites
• Laid back
• Today’s Bear River Weather
• Lifestyle Counseling in Bear River
• Point Prim (shhhh! It’s a Secret!)
• My Own Flight of Fancy
• Gardening – Not for the Faint-Hearted
• Ticks in Bear River – chapter 2
• Lunch with Jesse
• Music Therapy in Toronto
• Up in the Clouds
• Goodbye LA
• “The Happiest Place on Earth”
• The Great Divide
• Another Birthday, Another Beach!
• The Coal Man at the Billionaire’s Museum
• Need a Bear River Fix?
• Matisse, Mammoths and My Birthday
• LA, Flowers, and SUVs
• Another Day, Another Beach
• Santa Monica — shoes, books and ocean
• Happy May Day!
• The Toronto Rush
• IKEA :fantasy and reality
• Arriving in Ontario
• Animal paths
• City holiday
• Alien Landings
• Ticked Right Off!
• Bear River – Where Clotheslines are Legal
• About Cords of Wood
• Birds are Singing, Cats are Sunning
• Fire in the Sky
• Signs of Spring in Bear River
• Persisting with Art in Bear River
• Monster Washout
• The VIP Treatment
• Moving away….to Bear River East
• Sunday in Bear River
• Taking on the Gloom and Doom
• Today’s Weather Report
• All Things Considered
• The Power of Imagination
• Signs of Spring
• The Signs Point to Action
• Lansdowne Road
• Take me to Frenchys
• Enormous Jurassic Sea Predator, Pliosaur, Discovered In Norway… and my Loom
• Dancing in the Afternoon
• Monoprinting on a Winter’s Afternoon
• Simple, Rural Living in Indiana
• A Baby Boy!
• Singing to a Packed House in Bear River
• If This is Wednesday, it must be Snow Storm Day!
• Painting in the Studio
• Studio Tour– the update
• Snowed in Again!
• Building Awareness
• If This is Wednesday, it must be Paper Mache Day!
• My Un-birthday Celebration
• Animal Training
• More Beautiful Books and Films
• Group Dynamics in a Small Town
• Cabin Fever in the Woods
• Bear River in January
• Studio…moving in
• Sunday Morning…more Snow!
• The Library rules
• Bear River – downtown
• Building a Dream
• January Thaw at Sandy Cove
• A Bear River Studio at Last!
• Iced Pipes – the resolution
• Ice Cubes on Tap
• New Year’s Day drinking Chai in the Woods
• Bear River in 1984
• New Year’s Eve in Bear River
• How We Spent our Winter Vacation
• Bear River Snow
• Christmas Day
• Merry Christmas!
• Solstice, Friends, Food and Fire
• Cutting the Yule Tree
• Our Wonderful Grown-Up Kids
• Planting Tulips and House Ideas in a Snow Storm
• Gongs in the Forest
• Snow Day at the Farm
• Christmas, Rabbits and Emily Carr
• Larry’s movie making debut
• Mist, Mud and Tides
• Meet Daisy…the pot-bellied Pig
• The Graff Brothers
• Family ties
• Water, Water Everywhere, but can you Afford it?
• Running the Town on Good Will
• The Big View or the Closed Woods? Modern or Victorian?
• Balmy Bear River
• Bear River in the news
• This Morning’s Surprise
• Bonfire Night
• The Beauty of Eggs
• Rock picking
• The Wise Couple on the Hill
• The French Shore, the Atlantic Ocean and Yarmouth
• Storm update
• Noel…waiting for the storm
• Fluffy adjusts to life in Bear River
• Low Tide in Bear River
• Library Heaven
• Local Apples at 49 cents per lb!
• Walking the Neighbourhood
• Raising Money for Bear River Youth
• Tide in and Tide out
• Ignore this post if you know all about tides.
• First Political Meeting
• The Cat
• Pictures of Bear River
• The House and the River
• This Morning across the street
• Second Day in Bear River
• First Day in Bear River
• Ferry, cross the Bay of Fundy
• Travelling to Bear River
• Still in packing-up hell…..
• Last Day at Work
• The 3 1/2 week countdown
• Taurus(Flora) and Leo(Larry) horoscope for Sept07
• Bear River, here we come!!
• Welcome to my backyard!
• Emmy and Mike go to la la land
• Feltmaking in Mongolia
• My Birthday Weekend
• Indoctrinate me
• Bear River…here we come!