“The sere, the yellow leaf”

18 October 2024 – By the time Act 5, Scene 3 rolls around, Shakepeare’s Macbeth has numerous causes for lament.

But had he spent time…

in the VanDusen Botanical Garden...

on a cool and wet..

but also luminous fall day…

he might at least have reconsidered his opinion…

of the autumnal colour palette.

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    "A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities" -- Rebecca Solnit, "Wanderlust: A History of Walking"

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