Polek Rybcyznski captured this earlier in the week in one of the few openings in the smoke cover, and even though the inversion has lifted this weekend, I think it's still important to remember what it was like to spend a week under Wildlife Smoke Advisory. Not because I have any desire to wallow … Continue reading All eyes on the sky. A photo moment for July 12 with Polek Rybcyznski
They're not local, so we're breaking from our three week old tradition of showcasing some of the funnest instagram feeds from the neighbourhood (@pembyboa, @pvtatrails, @vanessastarkart kicked us off.) But after spying the most stunning Canada Day sunrise crowd shot, I discovered this inspiring feed, @chasingsunrise, which is basically a call to action to get out … Continue reading Instagram feature friday: @chasingsunrise
My throat hurts. I smoked cigarettes for about five minutes when I was at University, and since then, have had pretty pink clean lungs. The current air quality is apparently the equivalent of smoking a pack a day of cigarettes. It's not a great feeling. But here are some perspectives on that. The first, comes … Continue reading A fresh perspective on smoke and haze
Driving past the Pemberton Music Festival site is pretty exciting these days... some large and magical things are rising up out of the mist. And while the smoke is certainly concentrating the minds of a lot of folk on matters of safety, let's take a moment to just relish the idea of celebrating being alive, … Continue reading Pemberton’s Hillary Downing writes today in the Globe and Mail about going to the Pemberton Music Festival with her mom
Riva Fisher has a tattoo of Mt Currie running along the length of her ring finger. “What did your parents say?” I ask. “They loved it.” It's the view from the house she grew up in. When she was 18, the Pemberton-raised Fisher spent her first year of University in New Zealand, where her father, … Continue reading How many reasons to dance do you need?
Barn•storm: /ˈbärnˌstôrm: to tour rural districts giving theatrical performances, originally often in barns. ***** TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW at the Mt. Currie Coffee Co (Whistler and Pemberton) the Pemberton Esso and Bike Co. ***** "The Deslondes (formerly Tumbleweeds) are a New Orleans-based country-soul, swamp-boogie band, whose raw, stripped-down sound springs to mind a country-meets-Southern-R&B hybrid rooted … Continue reading Polish your cowboy boots. A Barnstorm is coming. Friday July 10, 7:30pm
Felix and Neve Abraham, caught scouting new lines a few weeks back, by photographer Rube Guibert, makes our photo of the week today.
Personally, I was thinking I'd like to get this, as a t-shirt. (One fan already mocked it up...) But I was one-upped, seriously, by a fan who got a Vanessa Stark inked onto his skin. An instagram feed of artwork, doodles, drawings and bike rides? Eye-candy. (And almost 2000 people agree.)
Yesterday was my first Canada Day parade. As a general rule, if a large crowd is gathering, I head off in the other direction. (The road less travelled, right?) But, not taking the two year old to see fire trucks just seemed wrong. So, we went. And I was glad to be wearing big sunglasses, … Continue reading That Canada Day parade *sniff*
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