Year: 2020
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.We Are All ALL Things. It’s No Surprise.
Yesterday I walked 5K through the lush green shaded forest to the sunny warm rocky shell beach in my neighbourhood on Vancouver Island. Nearly there, I headed down the tiny hill, looking down at the sneakers on my feet and the contrast of shade and shadow with dancing dappled light. This cute little dirt-gravel road…
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CHEK News Featured My Photo of a Black Oystercatcher
I received an email from Tess van Straaten of our local Vancouver Island based CHEK News. She was contacting me to let me know they would be featuring my photo of a black oystercatcher on the 5PM News for their weather photo. It’s always nice to find out ahead of time, to help spread the…
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CBC Vancouver Features My Black Oystercatcher Photo on Instagram
I am currently living on Vancouver Island and if you know the Island well, you know that in winter you need to learn to get used to the color gray––as in gray skies and gray seas––and…rain rain rain or, be miserable. It is all too easy to complain about our Island rain and oftentimes “horrid”…
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2020—Write It Anyway
Did you make any New Years resolutions? I haven’t, in many years. However, I do love to start my New Years Day off in nature if at all possible. So this January 1st 2020 I went to enjoy one of my favourite nature trail walks at Rathtrevor Provincial Park, in Parksville on Vancouver Island. It…