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…
Tag: reflection
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…
Another Look at Chesterman Beach
An interstice of beach, A microcosm of mysterious crags and clinging tree roots, A shell, a crab, The mother of earth written in sand at my feet.
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.…
Pausing My Life, Part One
Do you ever feel like you need to take a break from your life? Just press the pause button, sit back with your coffee or tea cup and turn everything off for an hour? No phones, internet, television or other "urgencies." Last year, I took on a high stress position. My boss, whom I got…
An Airplane Story
As Monty Python used to say ... And now for something completely different. Once upon a time, there was a pilot who had to fly an airplane very far, far north. The pilot had done lots of flying before, but not very far, far north. The pilot was looking forward to this trip. On the…
Why Do You Blog?
The idea for this post came from https://anupturnedsoul.wordpress.com who asked this question after being prompted by a blog that she follows: https://aguycalledbloke.blog. It's a good question. Why DO I blog? Well, for the most part, it started out with wanting to hang a warning sign on the Narcissistic Personality Disordered people among us who go…
