Category: pemberton
Victoria Saddleman sets our sights on the mountaintops in today’s feature photo
To the people who ask, does Mt Currie ever get boring, the answer is, again, resoundingly, no. Thanks to Victoria Saddleman for this fresh perspective. And for offering the names, in Ucwalmícwts, which are the names they have been known by the longest. Ts'zil (Mount Currie mountain) is the mountain on the right. The mountain … Continue reading Victoria Saddleman sets our sights on the mountaintops in today’s feature photo
Deep winter walks, with Gary Martin
Some pictures are poems. So I'll just let this speak for itself. Thanks to Gary Martin for sharing.
The medicine you seek. Dave Steers captures snow-cloaked rosehips in the thick of flu season.
Our photographers share their images - every weekend - wordlessly. And that's as it should be. An offering. A moment of quiet, stillness, contemplation. For you to interpret as you will. But I couldn't help, in the thick of flu season, but see the offerings of nature in Dave Steer's images today, of snow-cloaked rosehips, … Continue reading The medicine you seek. Dave Steers captures snow-cloaked rosehips in the thick of flu season.
Actually, it’s deeper than it looks. Photo by Gary Martin
The real danger might actually be in not diving in and embracing winter 100%. Happy Sunday. Thanks Gary Martin, for the laugh.
Georgina Dan’s Christmas photo is just a tree, plain and simple and shining with hope.
Trees wrapped in lights are pretty much my favourite thing right now... The early dark is held back, somehow... or better still, embraced, by the glow and lightshow. I drive through Pemberton, through Mt Currie, out the other side, and the Village, friends, neighbours, have wrapped lights around lamp-posts, trees, along their eaves, and they … Continue reading Georgina Dan’s Christmas photo is just a tree, plain and simple and shining with hope.
Winter’s rich palette captured by Dave Steers on a snowy Saturday
It's cold. But I will take the cold any day over grey drizzle. I love the depth and layers in this photo. It warms me from the inside out.
In case you thought counting birds was just about birds – a photo of Pemberton’s 2016 Christmas Bird Count by John Tschopp
This morning, Pemberton birders gathered to count birds. It was cold. Cold, but beautiful, says Count organizer, John Tschopp, offering this as definitive proof of the claim:
Anna Helmer’s Creative Non-Fiction Column for December
The shortlist of self nominated, self-awarded, self-indulgent and perhaps of interest only to self Awards for the 2016 season at Helmer’s Organic Farm are as follows: Crop Flop: Celeriac Doomed from the start. The first set of terribly delicate, freshly sprouted, faintly visible and hand-seeded starts got mistakenly baked by an unseasonably powerful February … Continue reading Anna Helmer’s Creative Non-Fiction Column for December
Grey Days
I’m on a quest for colour lately. The nightly news tallies up the days of rain we’ve had and people post shots of the sun in the rare moments it pokes through the grey. On rising the other day, we could see the promise of clear skies out towards the Rutherford, so we packed up … Continue reading Grey Days
The Wellness Almanac 