Louis Peterson has asked me if I would write a little on some of the native plants, which are in jeopardy or already have been destroyed in Lions Bay due to our improved (?) highway development.

For over 40 years we have been privileged to live in Lions Bay. It has been one of my great pleasures to introduce some of the leading botanists and horticulturists in the world to our native wild flowers in their natural environment along the Sea-to-Sky highway. For a serious plantsman there is nothing like seeing a plant known to them in horticulture growing in the wild.

Time and time again a painter is asked this question, a valid but not decisive question, not decisive because invariably there is more than meaning in a painting or any work of art - sometimes none what-so-ever in cases where the work is a complete statement in itself, it is what it is. But here we are going to dwell on paintings that are seemingly hard to understand, where meaning, if any, is obscure, not work that is closely related to that which is immediately perceptible and recognized, such as the work of Dan Varnals in Alice Tickner's Gallery. Such work is very important; it alerts us to things round us, things that are often not singled out for our undivided attention.