Favourite Finds on the Highway Home

back alley

Things I love about my home town: The big, beautiful Columbia River. Mountains. Everywhere. The Odeon (now Royal) Theatre The Italian food The smell of Syringas in June The big old churches That my childhood house is still standing That my mother’s childhood house is still standing The Italian food The dusty alleyways with neighbourhood [...]

Tureens and Travel

This week’s fabulous finds are from two different scouting outings. Keeping up with my collection of fruit-embossed dishes, I picked up this great gravy boat and plate at the local Value Village. I already have an official gravy boat that matches my good china, but I came across this one while I was in post-pedicure [...]

Memory Lane

Day has passsed to dusk, and dusk to night. A long day of driving, car weary and silly we leave our roadside motel and take a drive down memory lane to find some good spagetti and fat pieces of garlic toast. We leave the restaurant and the scent hits me – Syringa – suddenly I [...]