I've already touted Burberry Prorsum's Mens' FW 2008 line and with their first quarter total revenue already up by 22% I'm sure we're going to see even a larger increase for the duration of 2008.

Pull yourself up by your boot straps because this season is all about boots.

Whether you're grabbing the ubiquitous Beatle boot, the vintage combat or the city overboot you can't go wrong.

Here are

You've been gearing up for the season for two weeks now, you went to Radiohead, you've been thumbing the pages of Vice, subscribing to supertalk.superfuture, quizzing your hairstylist, but

During a "mood" last week I sold all our living room furniture on Craigslist.

Thank goodness for oversized throw pillows and flokati rugs!

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The time had come for my husband to buy some new denim. He loves fashion but hates to shop, nothing a few double shots of espresso and a maverick of a wife couldn't fix!

To the fitting room he went

Here's the picture at the max optical zoom of 6x with the addition of the 2x doubler, for a total of 12x.

Trying out my new Canon G9. The little Ixus-30 with 3x optical zoom just wasn't quite enough.
I was going to buy one of Canon's refurbished cameras from their warehouse in Toronto, but after talking

In the 1400 block of Bellevue Avenue in West Van, are two of these lovely little trees. Can someone please give us the name of it?

There's a larger clickable image of it on this blog if you'd like a 'keeper' of it.

Whatever this is going to be, it certainly seems like too much preparation for just your average single-family home in that single-family neighbourhood. Anyone have any ideas?
(It's on 3rd Street,

After reading a post over at Des orques dans la brume, I have been keeping an eye on the health of our newborn beluga calf at the Vancouver Aquarium. Qila, the mother, is a first-timer, which always

[Reproduced from my original blog, Coriolistic Anachronisms]

This is for Marie, who could not be present, but always is, any way.

There are times and places when - and where - one wishes the former

They've brought another one to dig it out.

They finally got it out about 11:30 a.m.

Dug himself into a hole, it seems...

...but whatever it is, there's a lot of dirt being moved.

World Poetry Reads at West End Car Less Festival June 15th!

2 pm, June 15th, The Spoken Word Tent at the corner of Denman and Barclay streets.

World Poetry hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro

The neighbours have my sympathy. It's noisy enough here, almost a block away.

These were taken yesterday afternoon on Cypress.
Enjoy your weekend, Everyone.

This is a new and unusual variety of tulip.

This won't take long - did it?

Enjoy your evening, Everyone.

The lifts are all closed, but the spring skiing is excellent, if you don't mind climbing
up on your own. Too bad the ski season was ended before the winter was...
Enjoy your day, Everyone.

In case there's warm enough weather for a growing season, we're preparing for it.
We call this tree-trimming, but my friends at BCTC and Hydro call it Vegetation Management. When it gets windy, it's

This picture is still worth a thousand words.