I didn’t put this up just for Kathleen and Danica, who both have extensive experience in long term care work. I think anyone can appreciate this clip.

There are tulips and daffodils everywhere and I cut the grass for the first time ever in the early half of April… so what Spring vision do I photograph? It doesn’t do much to add colour to the site, does it?
Nevertheless, there are interesting things to be recorded before greenery covers them up. I never noticed these limbs in the chain link fence until my walk today. Back up to 10,000 steps a day. My cold put a damper on my strolls for a few days, so it was good to get out again.

From the vicinity of her studio near Burrard Street, looking downtown, North Shore mountains in the background. The two biggest buildings were the new BC Hydro building and the Hotel Vancouver. What a difference from today!
This freely rendered oil on board was one of Helen’s ventures into painting with a palette knife. Textures are richest on the mountains. I don’t know when she painted on the large, peculiar signature, or why she did it. Helen’s signature at the time of painting would have been “Andy” (her nickname from nursing school days and her nom d’art thereafter). She probably signed it “Andy” in the same area originally and then painted over it much later.

You don’t stop doing things because you get old. You get old because you stop doing things.” ~ Rosamunde Pilcher, writer
The cold is finally going away and it’s time I got off my butt.

Hamblin glasses, a pair of spectacles especially designed for reading in bed; England, 1936
Lying around, wating for this cold to pass is getting to be a bore, but I haven’t the energy or the wits to do much else. At least I’ve been able to iPad up a few good sites I hadn’t come across before. For example…

Ripple.ca is functioning just as it has for years, although a cold has kept me from adding new entries as frequently as usual. When John Robert Colombo wrote to say “I see that ripple.ca is still offline”, I realized how far I’d gone with my minimalism.

Until today, I didn’t know that WordPress could easily paginate long chunks of text. All that’s required is a bit of code where the break is wanted. Page navigation is automagically supplied at the bottom of the entry. For example:
Read all of this, because it’s about you!

You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside.

I’m modifying the default WordPress look. For starters, the side columns are gone. How much of that stuff is really necessary? Trial and error will tell.
How do you feel about skeuomorphism?