I’m a writer and editor with a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario. I love my Naramata life and want to share my passion for this slow place that quickly steals your heart.
Living it to the max a partial list of things that makes life interesting and makes for a varied blog: Ironman athlete, open water swimmer who trains in our beautiful Okanagan lakes who swam the English Channel on the Crazy Canucks relay team 2016, first Canadian team to swim the Catalina Channel in 2019, and now taking on a Crazy Canucks’ double crossing of Lake Tahoe in 2021, baker in training, Naramata-Blend cooking class series organizer, raspberry farmer, greenhouse grower, vegetable and flower gardener, wine and food writer, drinker and eater, avid reader, movie nut, photographer, collector of kitchenalia and antiques, traveller but always happy to come home…and lover of all things that the Okanagan Valley offers its lucky residents. Master too, it seems, of the run-on sentence.
Carpe Diem is our moto! Seize the hell out of the idea, the project or the layered cake…succeed or fail, that cake will get eaten anyway.
January 24, 2016 at 2:36 am
If your looking for training swimmers/spotters let me know. I swam with Leora across the EC
LikeLiked by 2 people
January 24, 2016 at 4:12 am
You bet, we will be in touch when we can get in the lake in spring. That would be great!
LikeLike
February 9, 2016 at 12:19 pm
I feel as if I have a soul sister on the other side of the continent! (except for that Ironman athlete part of your description) Great to ‘meet’ you, and I look forward to following you on this blog adventure.
Connie
LikeLiked by 2 people
February 9, 2016 at 1:53 pm
Great to meet you too! I’ve been reading your blog for about a year now and I am honoured to connect!
LikeLike
June 8, 2016 at 11:27 pm
Nice to meet you!
LikeLiked by 2 people
June 8, 2016 at 11:28 pm
And you…I read your blog every day!
LikeLike
October 13, 2016 at 3:34 pm
Hi Elaine, Thank you for following my photography blog, Jane’s Lens. I hope you enjoy my work. Your blog is terrific and I look forward to reading more.
LikeLiked by 2 people
October 13, 2016 at 6:32 pm
Ditto!
LikeLike
June 1, 2017 at 11:56 pm
what lovely things here! this cake is especially wonderful 🙂
LikeLike
June 2, 2017 at 12:24 am
Thanks! How kind!
LikeLiked by 1 person
April 14, 2018 at 4:04 pm
Great blog on Tim and the seed work. We are so glad he’s able to care for our land.
Craig and Karen Henderson
LikeLike
April 15, 2018 at 5:28 am
Thanks! I love what he is doing.
LikeLike
June 17, 2018 at 3:20 pm
Hello neighbour! Love your blog.
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 17, 2018 at 4:19 pm
Hello back!
LikeLike
November 12, 2020 at 7:58 am
This is a great blog. I hate to nitpick, but once in a while, my bloodline causes me to do so. In your section “Five Naramata Secrets…”, the one particular of the pictographs, could you please edit this line:
“The Okanagan Valley of British Columbia was the traditional territory of the Interior Salish peoples…”
to this:
“The Okanagan Valley of British Columbia IS the traditional territory of the Interior Salish peoples…”
We are not gone, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to type this message. I understand that it could seem to be a simple error but it’s important.
limləmt (thank you)
way̓ p‿isnəqsílxʷ (all my relations)
LikeLike
November 12, 2020 at 4:07 pm
Thank you so much for pointing this out to me. I have made the change.
LikeLike