When we first moved to this house I was convinced we’d never move. I wrote: “At some point you have to take a deep breath, put roots down, and commit to making home in the best place you can find. Sure, things may always be better elsewhere – at least in our imagination and supposition.…
Today instead of a Wednesday links post I’ve decided to write a regular post with a few links thrown in. —- Over the past few weeks I’ve been moving my office from our large spare room to our small one, in preparation for my mother-in-law moving into our home in September. Initially I liked having…
I’ve been wanting to visit the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s (NCC) Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve since we moved here, but as an endangered ecosystem it’s not open to the general public. We’d wandered the (short) boardwalk that protrudes a few hundred meters into the preserve from Maple Bay Road, but it wasn’t the same as…
My sister recently asked me if there were any books I’d recommend to a friend of hers who was moving to Inuvik. Books about the north – fiction of nonfiction – so she could find a window into this new land she was about to inhabit. Books are a way to familiarize ourselves with landscapes…
I was reading a post at The Last Word on Nothing which included a quote that really resonated with me: The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes –Marcel Proust Lately I’ve been photographing the local landscape. It’s fascinating – and difficult – because there aren’t any…
Watershed Moments: Thoughts from the Hydrosphere 