I am a young at heart mother of 3 girls. I love the outdoors, healthy food, discovering beautiful, eclectic, off the beaten track kind of places, travelling anywhere in the world .
I adore animals, ( wolves in particular ), the natural world, gardening, being creative inventive, watercolours, photography ,writing, knitting, cooking, riding my bike, swimming, walking long distances and hiking. I'm a pretty good DIY ' er .
My profession for the past 25 years till present has been in Landscape Design, before that I worked as a tree planter, a camp cook for mining exploration and treeplanting camps in northern parts of Canada companies ,once upon a time I was a Hairdresser and in another recent lifetime, co owner of an Outdoor Adventure company that took guests up to explore our precious BC coast and the Islands of Haida Gwaii by boat, other trips took us into the depths of Borneo (1990 ) where our purpose was part adventure, part anti logging activism and exposure ...
I was born and raised in ( East ) Vancouver, BC and have worked and travelled all over Canada coast to coast, drove the west coastline from Vancouver to Guatemala, seen quite a bit of USA, Borneo, Malaysia. The past few years I focussed on Great Britain, Eastern and western Europe, Turkey and Southeast Asia where I walked extensively in no particular direction or destination, pretty much making it up as I went along , observing whatever crossed my path on that day . I’m a big fan of getting lost in old cities and finding my way back.
I love where I live, my home is a very old house with many mini ongoing fixer upper projects going on.
I'm told it's “funky, comfortable, kind of wabi -sabi -shabby- chic- vintage-organic. “
My house sits in a grove of magnolias which bloom pink in April within a Douglas fir forest and a bluebell meadow in May overlooking a peek a boo view of the city lights and north shore mountains from my yard.
I have lived in this same house for 29 years and counting!
At this time we have our resident two mini -house lions/cats, Pip and Clementine (mother and daughter) .
I have a couple of functional bikes for guests to use during their stay. ( they are not electric )
Cheers and welcome to my little home in the city forest,
Anne