by pattihenderson | Nov 3, 2013 | Weekend Adventures
I never imagined starting my blog post with a Lady Gaga quote but there you go. It just so happens her bold statement dovetails quite nicely with the theme for this week’s post. It is not the obvious “the more things change, the more they stay the...
by pattihenderson | Oct 27, 2013 | Weekend Adventures
Everyone has heard of the quote “A picture is worth a thousand words” but I think photographer Ansel Adams gets a bit closer to the real meaning of this oft-used saying. His full quote goes as follows: “When words become unclear, I shall focus with...
by pattihenderson | Oct 20, 2013 | Weekend Adventures
After four years of writing to you here each Sunday, I have learned an important lesson in story-telling. Stories have a life of their own and you have to let them go where they may. That is certainly the case with last week’s Thanksgiving post. It did not go...
by pattihenderson | Oct 13, 2013 | Weekend Adventures
On this Canadian Thanksgiving Sunday, it is not hard to look back on this week and recall just how much we have to be thankful for. I will start with the quote in the title of this blog. As many of you know, Canadian author Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for...
by pattihenderson | Oct 6, 2013 | Weekend Adventures
The perfect pairing with this week’s photo of an autumn barn is a quote from Carolyn Jourdan’s memoir, Heart in the Right Place. It goes as follows: “Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world...