It was a combination of the colour-popping image, the perspective, the beautiful framing, and the get-off-your-couch caption that stopped my scrolling eye in its tracks, while I was on Facebook. Happily, Shayla Wallace, PSS grad and contributor to the Mount Currie Photography page, agreed to let me share it here. Hope you get as big … Continue reading Guest Photographer Shayla Wallace offers a powerful reminder to stand tall, reach high, dream big.
We have another challenge we want to share with the community, (watch this space), but if you are highly challengeable (this is a pretty competitive-minded community), and think you can handle both, (hint: our challenge involves reading, and can definitely be done outdoors, so they're not mutually exclusive), why not sign up for the David … Continue reading May is the month for a nation-wide Nature Challenge
Animal tracker, Nature Camp instructor, naturalist and environmental educator, Kathy Jenkins, posted this on her Facebook page recently... a little inhabitant in her garden that reminds us that this backyard of ours is habitat, first, for many other living things. Like this long-toed salamander. (And friends.) The Long-toed Salamander is a slender salamander, about 8.5 … Continue reading Seasonal observations: long-toed salamander
I recently received injuries to my right hand that caused damage to some of my nerves. During my recovery process, I experienced exquisitely painful sensitivity at the sites that were healing and forming scar tissue. Time and Mother Nature wait for no one however and the St. John's wort blossoms emerged as my hand was … Continue reading The Lesson
The trouble began at the public beach where my leashed, and consequently grouchy, dog did not like the other dogs running amok around him, and my two year old granddaughter, dressed to the nines in her Baby Gap beachwear, coveted all the brightly colored plastic toys strewn about the man-made sand bar. As she trotted … Continue reading A Lucky Life – A Trip to Nature’s Spa
We ask Veronica Woodruff, whose instagram snaps of local flora and fauna are already a WellnessAlmanac favourite, a few questions. What makes a steward and how do you know if you are one? Veronica Wooodruff: Have you ever heard a bird call and wondered, ‘What is that? I hear it all the time?’Or have you … Continue reading Q+A: Stewardship Pemberton
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