It was a hideous pinky-purple with sponge-painted stars. The walls were plastered with quotes cut out from magazines that were haphazardly pasted out of context next to hundreds of photographs of friends and posters of punk bands and wakeboarding. There were at least 200 of those glow-in-the-dark-star and moon stickers on the ceiling, enough … Continue reading The Life Changing Magic Of Eating Croissants In Bed
I invited our weekly photo contributors to go through their own archives and do a year-in-review visual extravaganza, to help us close out 2015. Polek said, "I didn't think I shot much this year. I thought I'd only have a couple." In the end, he had 13. And the whole retrospective process reminded me of … Continue reading A year in the life – Polek Rybczynski hand-picks his favourite 13 images of 2015
The keeners were up and at it at 8am this morning... but the Christmas Bird Count is underway all week, having started on Saturday. Any species seen between Saturday and Friday can be recorded as a count week bird. Birder-wrangler, John Tschopp shared these two pics of a flock of Pine Grosbeaks and a Pygmy … Continue reading Christmas Bird Count is underway
Arctic fronts, I'm over you. Although, frozen lakes are a nice side effect. Still, I felt a true affinity when Polek shared his photo this week, with the following note: I wake up early for work, it's cold, i want to be warm; the car is cold, i want to be warm. My mind can … Continue reading Polek Rybczynski finds warmth in winter, Photo of the Week for Nov 29
After 3 years of writing weekly articles for the local paper I feel confident in my ability to make a 600 word article out of just about anything. The first step is to sit down and begin typing. A lot can happen in a short amount of time - usually within 15 minutes my interest … Continue reading Handling crop-flops with aplomb
Celebrities in our midst? Yes we do. "Earth and wind, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountains and the sea are all excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we could ever learn from books." - John Lubbock Local kid, Austin Ross, is all grown up, and rambling around the world, as … Continue reading Instagrammers of Pemberton: featuring @austinross88 for povs that you might not get in your everyday life. Unless you’re a bird.
In case you feel like howling, here's last week's supermoon, captured by our regular contributor Gary Martin. Feel free to let a little yawp rip through you.
Not what the weather-man said, but we are not complaining. Gary Martin took a ride, and took a photo while he was at it. Here we are, September 6, the Labour Day long weekend, anticipating back to school, more snow in the alpine, and the turning of the seasons. How's your harvest going?
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