Re: Vancouver Gardens?
- To: Cheryl and Wayne Renshaw
- Subject: Re: Vancouver Gardens?
- From: W* B*
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:27:57 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Cheryl,
This is not a reference to gardens in the Vancouver area, but is a
recommendation for a wonderful book.
It is a recounting of 15 summers of explorations by water around the
inland waters of Vancouver Island, by a widow who home schooled her five
children and took them on summer expeditions on her small boat during the
20s and 30s.
She earned their living by writing articles for magazines. This book is
one of the first published in Canada (after being published in England).
She was singlehandedly skipper, navigator, engineer (& mother), and she
writes about their encounters with bears, cougars, whales, fog, rough
seas, indian villages...A great account of a frontier experience in our
century.
THE CURVE OF TIME, by Muriel Wylie Blanchet; Seal Press, Seattle, WA,
1993; 170pp; paper, $14.95.
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Cheryl and Wayne Renshaw wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm going to be visiting Vancouver for a few days in a couple of weeks, and
> would like to hear opinions of the public gardens around the city. I won't
> have time to visit Vancouver Island at all this time, unfortunately.
>
> In particular, I'm interested in your impressions of these gardens:
>
> -- UBC Botanical Garden/Nitobe Memorial Garden
> -- Van Dusen Botanical Garden
> -- Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden
>
> Are there any other gardens you can recommend? I'm sorry to say I won't be
> able to spend the entire trip chasing gardens, so I'd like to make my
> garden-chasing time count!
>
> Thanks,
> Cheryl
>
> @--,--`----
>
> Cheryl Renshaw
> Santa Clara, California (Silicon Valley)
> USDA Zone 9/10, Sunset Zone 15
>
>
