This photo of Polek's one year old, Tae, in deep conversation with the Green River out the back of Signal Hill, made me think of a line from Anis Mojgani's poem, Shake the Dust: "this is for the two year olds who cannot be understood because they speak half-English and half-god." Or river-babble.
I think I've said it before: Dave Steers' photo stream is one of my favourite guilty pleasures, when I've had my head in the books, busy with deadlines, overly focussed on the few square inches right in front of my face. Opening up his flickr page is always a beautiful reminder to get out, look … Continue reading Photo of the Week: Dave Steers “Skunk Cabbage heralds first day of Spring 2015”
This might be the first time ever that our regular photo contributor, Gary Martin, has offered a caption to go with his photo. It's entirely legitimate as a wellness message... no one wants to see what happens when cyclists and drivers fail to share the road. Normally I send a shot of something beautiful and magnificent … Continue reading Phot of the Week: Gary Martin – Share the Road
Go outside and look up! It might be a mini-moon (according to earthsky.org, tonight's full moon is the smallest full moon of the year, farthest from the Earth than the closest full moon, that will be the September 28 Harvest Moon), but it's still beautiful. And PS Happy World Book Day.
Polek and I both welcomed babies into the world on March 1, so given that we are celebrating little people who are turning one and two, today, his contribution this month to the Photo of the Week series, seems especially resonant of the turning seasons. Polek calls this image of solanum lycopersicum going for it, "Emergence". (That's … Continue reading Photo of the Week: Polek Rybczynski’s ‘Emergence’
The ultimate blessing I can imagine bestowing on our community: may we be forever bee-friendly, may we be visited by happy pollinators, may all living things flourish, may there be honey. Thanks to Tanya Richman for sharing these shots of some early visitors appreciating this weird weather.
Snow's gone. It barely looks like winter. Especially in the forest. Dave Steers catches a weird winter in action.
Amazing what a difference a week makes? Gary Martin captured this moody shot of Pemberton's One Mile Lake boardwalk last week. Seven days later, no snow, and we're "drowning" in sunshine. No-one's complaining today - it's a glorious dose of Vitamin K - but it's sobering to think what this dramatically early snowmelt is … Continue reading Photo of the Week: Gary Martin
Linda Welsh spotted this merlin (Falco columbarius or pigeon hawk) on February 10 and managed to capture the shot from 15 feet away, and gave us permission to share the catch. The merlin (thank you Wikipedia) is a small species of falcon from the Northern Hemisphere. A bird of prey once known colloquially as a pigeon hawk in North America,[2] the … Continue reading Birdwatch: a Meadows merlin sighting
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