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Here are a few of my favorite online haunts:

REALTOR.ca
[This is the site I visit to fantasize about living in Toronto again, which is almost every single day during the winter]

Jonathan Cainer's Zodiac Forecasts
[This is where I visit in the morning, when I need a positive spin on things past, present and future.]

Living Local
[This is where I go to see what Canadians are up to, sometimes I even buy things from the businesses listed there.]

Environment Canada Weather
[This is the site I visit every morning, and before every road trip during the winter]

The recent rainy weather has departed and left in its wake a lushness of living green. The sun filters through the green forest canopy and falls in dappled glory on the floors and furniture surrounding my desk.

I'm having a quiet day so far. Attila has a list of things he wants to accomplish on his one day off. Attila prefers to work alone and uninterrupted when he tackles his projects. Weekdays and weekends blend together for me, because the day of the week makes very little difference to my activities.

This morning a loaf of Orange Loaf is baking in the oven. The weather is still cool enough for baking, so I am taking advantage of that. Dishes are washed, dried, put away. A load of laundry is in the wash, to be hung out to dry later this morning. My desk has been tidied and now I am now making a list of little jobs that can be accomplished today.

My deck garden is doing very well. It consists of pots of zucchini, swiss chard, tomatoes of different varieties and basil. I like the deck garden for a variety of reasons. It is easy to watch over, as it is right outside my window. It is easy to care for, just a few pots that need watering and weeding. I can also control insects by hand in such a limited garden; yesterday I removed a caterpillar that was making free with the new zucchini leaves.

I've slowed down a bit with my genealogy book, becoming side-tracked while I explored employment possibilities. That was a dead end, so I'll have more time now to devote to my research.

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RECIPES :: Cast

Worldly Distractions

Dianthus June 2010

Morning Blooms in June: Dianthus

Airwaves
Green Green Green
composed and performed by Steve Paul Simms

On The Screen
The Darling Buds of May
with David Jason, Pam Ferris, Catherine Zeta Jones

Quote
"Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world."
Goldie Hawn

Weather
15 °C
Condition: Recent Fog
Pressure: 102.0 kPa
Visibility: 16 km
Temperature: 15.0°C
Dewpoint: 13.5°C
Humidity: 91 %
Wind: 5 km/h

Page by Page: A Woman's Journal
Photography
Poetry
by Maggie Turner

Canadian Maggie Turner writes and publishes poetry, photography, and a personal journal online. Her work reflects the current way of life in Canada, embracing Canada's past, present, and future in a unique portrayal of everyday life. Maggie's voice is one of the many that actively depict the rich diversity of Canadian culture.

Photography: "a term which comes from the Greek words photos (light) and graphos (drawing). A photograph is made with a camera by exposing film to light in order to create a negative. The negative is then used in the darkroom to print a photograph (positive) onto light-sensitive paper.
Source: University of Arizona Glossary

Poetry: "a form of speech or writing that harmonizes the music of its language with its subject. To read a great poem is to bring out the perfect marriage of its sound and thought in a silent or voiced performance. At least from the time of Aristotle's Poetics, drama was conceived of as a species of poetry."
Source: Creative Studios

Journal: " "Though a journal may be many things - a treasury, a storehouse, a jewelry box, a laboratory, a drafting board, a collector's cabinet, a snapshot album, a history, a travelogue..., a letter to oneself - it has some definable characteristics. It is a record, an entry-book, kept regularly, though not necessarily daily.... Some (entries) will be nearly illegible, written in the dark in the middle of the night.... Not only is it a record for oneself, but of oneself. Every memorable journal, any successful journal, is honest. Nothing sham, phony, false...." (Dorothy Lambert from Ken Macrorie's book, Writing to be Read )
A journal is a way to keep track of your thoughts about what you read... as well as what you did on any given day."
Source: Journal Writing

A Blog is an online journal created by server side software, often hosted by a commercial interest.

"The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[4] on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[5][6][7] Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging

Green, green, green...

Page by Page: A Woman's Journal Photography Poetry by Maggie Turner

Page by Page: A Woman's Journal
Photography
Poetry
by Maggie Turner