With the shirts on their backs, guitars on their hands, this foursome brothers survived the fury of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan); as REO Brothers band, they might just take the world by storm! I had the opportunity to meet them as they provided the dance music for a 1960’s Beatles-themed party. (Their band name honors their parents,…
Author: Karen E. Young
Sharing the journey of fumbling my way to pleasing Jesus as His follower, as a wife, mother, businesswoman/ entrepreneur, cook/baker, employer, writer, occasional singer, lifelong learner, and aspiring dancer.
Afternoon at Lynden, Washington: Day Trip from Vancouver, B.C.
When I thought we were lost amongst farms of waddling ducks, the vision of Mount Baker’s poetic and pretty triangular snowcap on the horizon kept me focused. [It’s actually just thirty minutes from either Fairhaven where we came from or from US / Canadian border in a triangle.] Set near the Nooksack Indian village, Squahalish,…
Mid-day at Fairhaven, Washington: Day Trip from Vancouver
Just twenty-one miles from the US-Canada border in British Columbia, the Fairhaven, Washington (USA) community was established in the late 1880’s; it became one of three cities [the other two being Whatcom City and Sehome] that formed Bellingham, the largest city of Whatcom County, Washington —famous for Vancouverites to do their US outlet shopping (think lower tax)….
London Heritage Farm, Richmond B.C.
Along the Fraser river by the coastline city of Richmond (British Columbia) stands the London Heritage Farm— a historic site complex consisting of a farmhouse, family barn, heritage and herb gardens, memorial rose garden, hand tool museum; with antique farming equipment, chickens, Honey and Blue Orchard bees (with picnic tables). In the farmhouse is a tearoom…
On A Given Sunday
This was my Sunday as a visiting body part. Usually I’m able to catch up with services of my home church, CCF (Pasig) via livestream when I am away from Manila but on this particular day, I wanted to see my teacher and dear friend, Heidi, so I went to her home church, CCF Vancouver. A…
Thanksgiving Dinner from Granville Island Public Market
Granville Island Public Market is a food lover’s paradise. With fifty main retailers and over a hundred more rotating day-vendors selling local and international artisanal foods (and crafts), a wide international selection of delicious cooked food and ingredients for what you want to cook yourself, it has practically everything you need in a market. And more. Just…
English Bay
How many cities can say they have a beach park downtown? Well, Vancouver can… here at English Bay Beach (among other beaches around the city). From the late 19th century, the legendary lifeguard, Joe Fortes, taught Vancouver residents how to swim right on this beach. In 2015, some 2700 liters of cargo ship oil spilled into the…
Stanley Park
In 2014, Stanley Park National Historic Site of Canada [yes that’s its official name] got ranked “Top Park in the Entire World” by TripAdvisor [based on] consumer reviews. For about 130 years, it has been designated as “green space.” The land on which the park stands was home to First Nations (indigenous) people until 1858 when…
VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver
VanDusen Garden is a sight to behold! Named after Canadian lumberman and philanropist, Whitford Julian VanDusen, it is one of five parks in the posh Shaughnessy neighbourhood, occupying a parcel of the old Shaughnessy Golf Course. The man who designed the garden, R. Roy Forster, was given the second highest honor for merit, the Order…
Gastown Stroll and L’Abattoir Dinner, Vancouver
Since 2009, Gastown has been a National Historic Site of Canada. It was the nucleus from which the whole city of Vancouver, British Columbia grew. Its name was derived from the “founding father of Gastown,” a Yorkshire seaman, “Gassy” Jack Deighton, who opened the district’s first tavern in 1867. His statue remains among the post-Great-Vancouver-Fire historic buildings…
BUTTERFLY IN THE SPRING 