All the pretty pastries

Day one of our two-day cake and pastry class.

Another day, another church

Like someone threw a sunshine switch, all the grey went away, leaving me weirdly elated. When I was little, on a sunny Sunday like this, my mom and dad and I would head down to the Stanley Park seawall for a stroll. Today though we went forging for kitchen appliances and came home with a brand new potato ricer -here's to ricey potatoes.

Tile crossing

Do these tiles look familiar? They cover Our Lady of Sorrows Church - and while I've been in that church for one reason or another over the years, I only recently noticed the tile pattern. I think it's actually quite beautiful.

Bobby Flay Friday

Dreary day. I fought off the winter blues with a run through the rain forest with my faithful hound, a spot of work and then a lunch with old friends. And of course finished off the day watching Throw Down with Bobby Flay. I love that show and secretly wish I could be one of his assistants.

Notice the absence of a picture today - I meant to take a picture of my lunch (portabello mushroom foccacia with goat cheese and caramelized onions) at The Red Wagon, but I forgot. Then I meant to take a picture of my supper at Stix (chicken skewers on noodles with salad) but I forgot.

So instead of a picture I've started a second blog called Chair Orphans.

I'm on the road to nowhere

or at least that's how it feels. I wonder if my inability to move forward with my project is some kind of self-sabotage or if somewhere in the back of my mind I know I still have time.

Blue skies

I'm not the only one, I think, who appreciates a blue sky.

There was all kinds of commotion in the bird community - and there are reports of hummingbirds in the hood - must get a feeder.

A little run

Tried a new run today. Echo accompanied me through Trout lake and up under the skytrain route to Rupert - and back down the hill. I am a very good down hill runner - and so is Echo.