George's Birthday Party, 2010
Jean stirring the pot of most excellent beans
Every good party starts in the kitchen
Brian Fawcett whips up some sushi. GB getting spoiled.
Instant replay
Spider Robinson checking the latest snapshot
GB and SR
Ted got into sharpening knives
Ted and Jean
GB and Stan Persky
Lovely roses
More kitchening
Ted
More food prep
GB and Fred Wah examine a card
GB gets another amazing card
Food table
Ryan Knighton
Warren Dean Fulton and Jean
Peter Quartermain, Bill New and his wife
Poetalking
Great food table
Corner chat
Food
VSW REUNION FEBRUARY 2010
Leslie and Kim
They came from Pender Island and Nanaimo and Seattle and the Koots and Alberta and points in between
Hostess with the Mostess!
Planning her next masterpiece
GB pours himself a cup of java
Not true what they say about old dogs
Breakfast
Something like this, for example
The sphinx was this big
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Rhonda and Bananagram
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Pat plans her next move
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Preparing to poet
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Linda reads from something
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There was an oulipolian orgy of word games
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Leslie
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Kim
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Valerie
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Leslie reads and Rhonda listens
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An industrious lot
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How many poets does it take...
...to get something off the top of the fridge?
Paul with Amalio Madueno
It was half-past wine
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GB, camera-grabber
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Jean's and Val's quilt-to-be blocks
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Inspiration
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Mugshot
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Paul reads from his book
This copy of 'A Time Before Slaughter' is hand-bound
Rhonda and Leslie, plotting something
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Kim reads from her screen
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Avocado queen, Pat
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Are those wine glasses empty?
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Three belles. Trois belles, then
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Missing Kim, dammit
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All too soon, it was time to leave
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Our fabulous, fearless leader
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VSW Reunion November 2008
Through slush and snow they came
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George of George and the Georgettes
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Lenora came all the way from California
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Val definitely rates a 10!
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Pat, like Santa, comes from the N-north
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Kim was celebrating her soon-to-be degree
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Rhonda was sporting a cast. Tennis, anyone?
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Paul was careful around wine bottles
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Leslie made it, just before her next trip to Kenya
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Linda and necklace, with pen
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Jean, the amazing gemologist and podiatrist
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It began with a lot of serious paper-shuffling
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We read, and listened, to each other
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Rhonda wowing us with words
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Lenora sharing one of the poems in her book
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Paul reading from one of his chapbooks
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Leslie in search of a poem
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Sharing an Exquisite Corpse
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More poetalking
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George with some of the letters he's used
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We even did cut-outs
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Leslie, Paul, Rhonda and Linda went to the Black Stilt
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Paul giving his blessing to the Black Stilt crowd
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Back from the reading
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Relaxing after a hard day's poetry
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There was time to do a little writing
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Getting some words down
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Dueling cameras
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Kim took a bunch of great ones
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In addition to poetry, quilts were worked on
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Books got made
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We even had roof guys!
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Pat, Val and George poetalking
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Rhonda and Kim, working away
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2:30PM was a good time to uncork the wine
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Pat and Kim got to laughing about something
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Must have been a good one!
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Kim showing restraint at the Chinese restaurant
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A lovely cup of tea
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After the feeding frenzy
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Great hat, great smile
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Blueberry pancakes! Fabulous omelettes! Mmmm
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Somebody's happy he found the coffee
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Paul and Meredith, enroute to Tofino
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George and Lenora
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Rhonda and a cast of three
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Plotting the next adventure?
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