blogging

Signs of Spring

March 17, 2022

I went for a bike ride yesterday, for the first time this year. The rain had stopped, and although it wasn’t sunny, it was a nice day. And as I rode, I saw some signs of spring. My Mom always called this bush spyria. When I moved back to the west coast, I got a…

Eagle in the Nest

March 10, 2022

We have bald eagles around our land, and this winter, starting in December, a couple of eagles built a nest in a cottonwood tree just down from the house. Here it is, full of twigs and tree limbs. We kept seeing them flying past our house, carrying big branches in their claws, and followed them…

Coffee cup

February 12, 2022

This little cup is a keepsake that we brought back with us from the Island of Rhodes some years ago. We much enjoyed Rhodes, very historical, lovely old buildings, and a nice swim in the Mediterranean Sea. The cup is lovely, isn’t it, and no, it’s not made in China. On the bottom it reads…

Good Neighbours

January 24, 2022

We had a big snowfall after Christmas that lasted several days and nearly snowed us in. One of our neighbours has just moved here and I haven’t even met him yet. But he plowed the whole road and cleared access, as the public plow usually fills in our road entrance and blocks us in. Then…

About Sylvie

January 14, 2022

Let me tell you a little about me, Sylvie Grayson, and why I write! What am I currently working on? My current work is the prequel to The Last War series, where an ambitious young Sergeant in the military is reluctantly dragged into the middle of the Emperor’s ambitions to increase the number of women…

A Brand New Year

January 13, 2022

I have been spending time planning my goals for the New Year. As I pondered which items were the most important, and what order they should go in the list, there was a knock on the door. We had quite a few snowfalls lately and now the ground was covered with a thick coating of…

Merry Christmas to All

December 25, 2021

Best, Sylvie

Six More Sleeps – Christmas festivities

December 19, 2021

Christmas is almost upon us. Our tree is outside, the trunk soaking in a bucket of water with sugar and Vitamin B. The lights have come up from the basement and wait in old boxes for the decorating to begin. I’m slow this year, can’t seem to get too organized. I did begin the baking.…

Treason at Lisson Grove, by Anne Perry

November 19, 2021

Anne Perry does a wonderful job of presenting the British world of the 1800’s. Thomas Pitt, investigator, has been promoted to a position he’s highly uncomfortable with, yet he must step up if he will be able to save his friend Victor Narraway from the false clues and planted evidence against him. Pitt’s wife Charlotte…

Eagle in the Tree

November 5, 2021

Don’t know if you can see the bald eagle perched on the branch of a fir tree in the middle of that picture. He watches the flats below. As soon as the winter rain starts, the water begins to accumulate down there and the birds arrive- trumpeter swans, seagulls, ducks, Canada geese. The eagles hunt…