Happiness Is To Hold Flowers In Both Hands* – a photo essay
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. Phil Ochs We live in challenging times. Most of us …
Category Archives: What I’m Juiced About Right Now
Just one person – in photographs from around the world
There’s an instagram account called insta_repeat. Each post is a composite of twelve photos of an identical (or very similar) …
A #covidbubble Christmas
Unknowingly we’d begun to lay the foundation in April. Don and I returned from Malaysia on March 21st, just squeaking …
Above My Pay Grade: the joys and sorrows of photography competitions.
The first time I entered a photography competition was on Facebook 6 or 7 years ago. The hosts encouraged people …
Just Don’t Call Me Sprightly: musings on turning seventy
I’m astonished to discover I’m seventy. It feels surreal, as if it doesn’t belong to me, as if I’m wearing …
Shelley’s Story – reflections from a freelance travel writer
Her work has been featured in National Geographic, USA Today, Fodor’s, LA Times, CNN, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Yahoo, and …
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”, …
All Creatures Great and Small: wildlife around the world. Part 2
As I looked through my files for my favourite wildlife photos it became obvious that there would be far too …
All Creatures Great and Small: wildlife around the world. Part 1
Following on from the recent posts of my favourite photos of people, and my favourite landscape photos here are a …
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 …
Women of Guatemala – a series of vignettes
One more post to come about our recent travels in Mexico, plus posts about Cuba, and of course more posts about Guatemala, …
Up Against The Wall – in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico
Those of you who follow the blog regularly know that the stories of our travels are told chronologically. Thus, I …
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 …
The ‘Painted’ Flowers of La Manzanilla
Those of you who follow the blog regularly know that the stories of our travels are told chronologically. Thus, I …
