Living

FROM time to time, a plant will generate a variation markedly different from the parent stock. Gardeners call this a sport. The term defines West Vancouver's Christa Bortignon in the horticultural sense and as an athlete.

I'M amazed at how a 95-pound dog can possess the stealth like qualities of a panther. He sneaks onto the bed some time during the night without the slightest jiggle of the mattress or misstep on human body parts.

SEVERAL years ago, Quails Gate coowner Ben Stewart did something unprecedented. He held a tasting of his wines at the Four Seasons, mixed in with comparable drops from elsewhere in the world.

BOYS are using colour and casual footwear to freshen up their look on prom night, but their dates are the ones who are really calling the shots, sometimes from behind the scenes.

Pavement pedaling 'the new golf'

A glimpse at the trail-blazing history of the whistler mountain bike park

- The Sacred Headwaters; The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena and Nass by Wade Davis, Greystone Books, 160 pages, $50. There is a place in northwestern British Columbia where three mighty rivers originate.

JUST in time for grad parties and prom, artfully undone braids and loose, windswept curls evoke lazy summer days and beach bonfire nights. The simple, pretty look can be flip-flop casual, or a romantic addition to a floorlength gown.

Grassroots biking groups help sweeten the ride