Reflections at the Gabriola Commons
This is what the pond at the Gabriola Commons looked like this afternoon.
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Blending in at the Gabriola Commons
Oh look, over there in the grasses!
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Gabriola Fall Fair, 2011
Gabriola’s Fall Fair will be at the Gabriola Commons this Sunday, September 18th, 2011, and it does sound like fun. If you’re in the mood for competition, enter your veggies, flowers, food, crafts, or animals into the various categories of contests. Just want to hang out and have fun? Here’s the schedule: 9:00 to 10:30 [...]
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Gabriola scarecrow
A cheery face, yes? This scarecrow is at the Gabriola Commons.
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Dear Gabriola Commons: about that photo!
Dear Gabriola Commons, I just read the Visions and Voices (pdf) report you posted on your website. Wasn’t I surprised when I got to page 29 of that report, and noticed one of my photos there. It’s this photo of a bee on a flower that I took back in 2009, and published here on [...]
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New greenhouse at the Gabriola Commons
Have you noticed the new greenhouse at the Gabriola Commons? It’s in the upper community garden – the one nearest North Road.
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Gabriola Easter Egg Hunt
This year’s Gabriola Easter Egg Hunt will be on Sunday, April 24th, at the Gabriola Commons. Starts at 1pm. The hunt is being run by volunteers from the Gabriola Rod, Gun, and Conservation Club. Hunting eggs, hunting deer… all in their mandate! ;-) I don’t think kids get to shoot the eggs, though.
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Gabriola Commons’ greenhouse
Look what’s appeared at the Gabriola Commons, in the garden nearest the house! Looks like a greenhouse to me, and I imagine the allotment gardeners will be extremely pleased about this.
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On bamboo
Lots of people on Gabriola seem to plant bamboo to screen out that ugly thing the neighbour’s doing. Are you one of them? If so, I’ve got just the craft project for you, and a story too. It’s this: Scientists make bamboo tools to test theory explaining East Asia’s Stone Age tool scarcity. How cool [...]
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One yurt, up and clothed!
Those Poetry Gabriola volunteers are fast workers. Last Friday I showed you the yurt platform, with no yurt upon it. Now the whole thing seems to be done! (Well, they’ll probably add steps, and perhaps some cosmetic thing around the base.)
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Gabriola’s cob wall. Crumbling?
There are several cob walls on Gabriola. There’s the one near Whalebone (On Petkau or something?), the one on Dirksen, the one on… oh, I’m sure there are too many to count. But this is the most well known of them all: the cob wall at the Gabriola Commons. But, hmmm. Is something wrong here? [...]
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Seedy Saturday, and how that went
Did you go to Seedy Saturday at the Gabriola Commons yesterday? We did, and we came away with packages of free bean seeds. The deal is this: we grow the beans, and return ten percent of the beans we grow to the Commons in the fall. Brilliant scheme. There was a Seeds of Diversity display, [...]
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Gabriola Poetry Yurt update
Last time I went by the Gabriola Commons to see how the Gabriola Poetry Yurt was coming along, the foundations were there, but that was about it. But now, look: much progress! The platform is in place. Update of the update, March 5th, 2011: Wha-hooo! Lattice walls are up. You can see the structure from [...]
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Seedy Saturday at the Gabriola Commons
Tomorrow (March 5th) will be Seedy Saturday at the Gabriola Commons. It starts at 11, goes until 3pm, and is just the sort of thing that people who garden will probably enjoy. The Commons explains that you can expect: . . . a variety of events, demonstrations and games for children. Some of the events [...]
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Winter sky at the Gabriola Commons
On winter afternoons, the light delights me. Can you resist it? This is the Gabriola Commons‘ boardwalk and the winter sky.
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Poetry Yurt at the Gabriola Commons
Having heard about the Poetry Yurt at the Gabriola Commons, I stopped in to see what the site looks like so far. Like this! I guess they’re building a proper platform for the thing first. Will I be able to use the yurt if my art consists of drinking beer and eating mince pies?
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Gabriola Poetry Yurt
Poetry Gabriola announces that they’re building a poetry yurt at the Gabriola Commons. The Poetry Yurt is intended to be a year-round, multi-use venue for professional artists to research, develop, create, study, rehearse and workshop new works, and to gain depth and insight into current existing artistic practice. It is the intention of Poetry Gabriola [...]
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Labyrinth at the Gabriola Commons
Did you know that the Gabriola Commons has a labyrinth? Here it is. I think I prefer Gabriola’s spiral triskele, but the labyrinth is pretty impressive, too.
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