See the sea plant. See the sand on the sea plant. See the surf wash the sandy sea plant away. Such is the soul of the sea. 🙂
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Thawed
We have melted. 🙂 While fires ravage other parts of the country, I wish them rain.
It’s a Bear!
I saw this lovely fellow standing next to the road leading from Wood Buffalo National Park. His coat was shiny and he was very healthy looking after his long winter sleep. We stopped and then he stopped, and we looked at each other. He made no attempt to come closer, but just regarded us while…
A Rain Forest
Vancouver Island is home to very old, very sodden rain forests. Many of the Douglas firs in this forest are 800 years old. They were little trees in 1219, when St Francis of Assisi was founding the Franciscans and Genghis Khan was a teenager. It rains a lot here. A lot! As a result, the…
Rocky Mountain View
On our last drive from the Okanagan to the Northwest Territories, M and I stopped at the Overlander Hotel, just outside Jasper National Park. It was a wonderful respite after eight hours of driving through the mountains. There was great food with a wonderful room in the original lodge that was built more than 100…
Fathoms
Mother of fiery pearl and graceful shark The pounding logs and grinding stones Of life millenial Arctic heat drives you Breath of the world As cables and leaves entwine us in brine and sand The assassin, the mid-wife You are all things at once and never.
Pausing My Life, Part Two
When I left off at the end of part one, my boss was becoming very ill but was still at work. Her decisions had started to become dodgy and unreliable, a complete reversal of character and ability for her. I needed a rest from the demanding situation and took my summer holidays, and while I…
Northern Garter Snakes
Caution: Just so you know, this post contains photos of snakes. 😳 The red-sided garter snakes of Wood Buffalo National Park are the northern-most snakes in the world. In April, they begin to emerge from their hibernaculum to mate and migrate across the neighbouring Salt River for the summer. These little snakes blend incredibly…
A Restaurant with a View
The view from a North Vancouver restaurant where we had a nice dinner. A beautiful early spring evening. Happy Friday; happy weekend. 🙂
If You Go to Tofino
As I recently posted, we went to Tofino, British Columbia a couple of weeks ago. We had wanted to visit for a long time. However, this particular visit was very short as we decided to go on the spur of the moment; our plan is to go back at some point because we loved it.…
