by pattihenderson | Sep 6, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
I must start this post with an apology. Ever since launching this blog over 5 years ago, I have been diligent in publishing a new post each Sunday. I have kept to this schedule religiously (pardon the pun). My Sunday mornings have had a blissful, creatively...
by pattihenderson | Aug 23, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
This past week two beautiful, sunny, warm days begged me to take them off and become a tourist in my own town. I learned from visits to two of my other favourite cities, San Francisco and New York, that taking the famous “Hop-On-Hop-Off” bus tour was...
by pattihenderson | Aug 2, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
Blue Jays weekend games start early out here on the left coast. 10 am! This is seriously cramping my habitual Sunday morning blogging routine! I’m only part way kidding. But I cannot miss an inning of our revamped “all-in” edition of the Jays so...
by pattihenderson | Jul 26, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
Author James M. Barrie’s full quote goes as follows: “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” I am thinking about the gift that is memory this Sunday morning, my first back in beautiful British Columbia, and one of my first...
by pattihenderson | Jul 19, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
When you drive down the back roads of Lambton County in the summer, you will come across many places where you will see brilliant, orange Tiger Lilies, or “Ditch Lilies” like the ones in this photo taken at the site of the old S.S. #7 Bosanquet School on...
by pattihenderson | Jun 21, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
On a recent work trip, I had the good fortune to drive along one of the most picturesque and rugged highways I’ve ever had the pleasure to travel: The Crowsnest Trail. I traveled the famous #3 from Hope in the west of BC all the way to Cranbrook nearing the...
by pattihenderson | Jun 14, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
Growing up, science fiction author Ray Bradbury was one of my favourite reads. He had a special way of taking you places while your hands were wrapped tightly around one of his books. His full quote goes as follows “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if...
by pattihenderson | Jun 7, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
This week I was reminded of a recent story by National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson called As The World Turns. This spring Jim crowdsourced photos that depicted transitions. Not just the transitions from winter to spring but also photos that captured that...
by pattihenderson | May 31, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
I am in the midst of reading artist and author Emily Carr’s journals and I was surprised to learn that Carr, who painted and described her lush and wondrous British Columbia surroundings so vividly, often struggled to feel satisfied with the results of her work....
by pattihenderson | May 18, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
How many of you had your experience of British Columbia’s rugged and wild coast shaped by Canada’s longest running TV Show The Beachcombers? If you were like me, Sunday nights WERE The Beachcombers. Nick, Molly and Relic were like family who visited just...