*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 …
Category Archives: Canada
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 …
Vancouver: Summer Fun and Housekeeping
Our time in Vancouver has come to an end, and a new phase of our journey has begun – a …
Nomads in our Home Town, and the Black Hole of Photoshop
We’ve spent the last three and a half months in Vancouver “housekeeping” – taking care of business and further cutting …
Kicked Out of the Nest, and a Fabulous Folk Festival
On being kicked out of the nest: We have been granted a special two-year leave of absence from British Columbia …
