Wild Majesty: Pacheedaht Beach and Botanical Beach on Vancouver Island
24 October 2019 It is bigger than Belgium, much bigger than Crete, about the same size as Taiwan, and nearly …
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The Colours of Joy – Vancouver Pride Parade 2019
Warning: naked butts and boobs ahead. It’s Pride month! Gay pride was not born of a need to celebrate being …
Best. Summer. Ever. Vancouver when the sun shines.
June-July 2019 Warning: naked butts ahead. It was the best summer of my life. Well one of the best. I …
*The Earth Laughs In Flowers – some joy in the time of corona.
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. Buddha In 1950 one …
Birds Of A Feather – The George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary
They are there when you first walk in, just a short distance down the path from the entrance building. Dozens …
A Blue And Green World: Cowichan Days on Vancouver Island
The Coast Salish First Nation, the first people to live there, gave the place its name. They called it Quamichan …
Shooting Squirrels in the Park: a Montreal nature hunt
I first saw it about a year ago: a photo, taken by my sister, of a white squirrel in the …
Down By The Water – summer evenings by Vancouver’s Fraser River
On these long hot summer evenings Don and I like to have our dinner here:It’s a tiny rocky pebbly “beach”, …
One Million Christmas Lights! Christmas season at VanDusen Botanical Garden.
I know, I know, I still haven’t posted all I want to share of Cuba. There’s one more post to …
Five Months In Vancouver: a long rambling story
31 May-31 Oct 2016. We haven’t had a home for over five years now. People ask us if we ever …
Summer in the City: Vancouver’s Jericho Beach and Park
More stories of Egypt to come but, What I’m juiced about right now: is the splendour of a summer evening …
Naturally Beautiful Vancouver
Early morning, False Creek, Vancouver. At 6am the alarm starts beeping, waking me from a light sleep. I’d hardly slept …
Our Vancouver – a love letter
Vancouver from Queen Elizabeth Park Greater Vancouver is dominated by mountains to the north, and to the south by the …
Lotus Land – Vancouver, BC
The city of Vancouver is relatively small, only about 600,000 people. On the other hand Greater Vancouver, more commonly known …
