I have family out east, who say they feel claustrophobic in the mountains - they like the wide skies of their flatland home. I'm sympathetic. But I like these mountains that hold up our sky. And the glimpses of sky and all its drama and glory. Thanks to Shayla Wallace for her ongoing Saturday posts. … Continue reading Shayla Wallace keeps an eye on the sky
Signal Hill has one of the highest ratios of aboriginal students in the province - 40% of the elementary age kids come from a First Nations background. That means, two out of every five kids in the school come from a culture for whom school is not a safe place – not a refuge … Continue reading The bravest day of the year
"Don't be angry with the rain, it simply does not know how to fall upwards."~ Vladimir Nabokov
It’s almost like we belong to some mysterious (and some would say, delirious) club, but Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 5:40 in the morning, vehicles converge in the parking lot beside Mountain Glass and Mirror and a committed crew of clients line trundle into the side bay of the shop to gather a collection of … Continue reading What Happens at Early Risers…
The psychologist was not telling me what I wanted to hear. We were skyping across time zones, navigating work, kids and continents and I had a pretty clear idea in my head of what I wanted from him. Damn head-mechanics. I was looking for an expert to back a theory – to offer up neurological … Continue reading Own this space: secrets about life I learned from my mountain bike
This is the poet, Mary Oliver's, take, on what those three things are. In Blackwater Woods Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders of the ponds, … Continue reading To live in this world, you must be able to do three things
Spend your summer making a difference. Stewardship Pemberton has openings this summer for two students (15 - 30 years of age) to help with the children's and community outreach programs underway this summer. You need to like helping things grow - little people, food, trees, community...
Kinda looks like Paradise, doesn't it? We've been undertaking this tradition of a Sunday photo post, to offer a moment of calm and contemplation. Got to say, this looks like the ideal kind of way to contemplate things to me.
When we first moved to our property, we named one of the outbuildings, Chateau Bearshack, in recognition of the bear viewing opportunities it provided from its foundation next to a field of dandelions. We did not name the garden, Jardin de Blacktail Deer, though we certainly should have when we realized how frequently everything would … Continue reading The Squirrel and Other Visitors
Greg Ferguson, in collaboration with Pemberton Wildlife Association, is conducting a survey on Great Blue Heron populations in Pemberton and the surrounding areas. If you have seen, heard or found herons foraging or flying, groups of herons in trees, heron eggs or young, or heron, bald eagle or osprey nests, in your wanderings, please share … Continue reading Birdwatchers WANTED: Have you seen a Great Blue Heron?
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