Sparkles in the Air

Today is a little warmer than it has been only -15C. The sun in shining and you can see the air frozen into tiny sparkles. I like to look for the little things and the quiet sounds. Be still and the wilderness will talk to you, will stir your soul.
John Muir said “Nature’s peace will [...]

Hard to imagine

When I first arrived in Canada I was surprised to learn that women, I suppose some men too, made their own bread, baked cookies, made pickles and did all sorts of things in the kitchen that I had always assumed were done in the stores. All cakes and bakery items were bought when I was [...]

No other place to live

Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, which is BC’s largest park, is relatively close to us, about 150km away, which is close by our standards because we travel almost that to go shopping. The park is nearly 4,0000 square miles of varied landscapes and terrain. Between the lakes that bound it on the north and the glaciers of [...]

Leaving a legacy

One of the blogs that I have listed as one I particularly like is “Turning the Pages of Life” by Gene Bach. He often has thought provoking items, one of which I quote here.
“Each of us, in our everyday lives, are writers. No, we may not be using a pen but, through our words and [...]

Some of our neighbours on the road

Today we went out for the first time in a week, to travel into town to get a few groceries and attend our little church, about 100Km or 60miles distance away. It was -22C with the wind chill making it feel like -30C.
The big lake has not frozen over as yet and a mist [...]

Rape of the wild

Kitasoo legend says that Raven the Creator, went among the bears and turned every tenth bear white to serve as a reminder of a time when the Earth’s great glaciers covered the landscape.
In the beginning of time, the world was white with ice and snow. Then the Raven came from heaven and [...]

Not so grand a gesture

A few of the blogs I have been reading lately are writing about communication and I remembered this incident when I wanted to communicate acceptence and respect, and maybe I did, but it may not have been the wisest of gestures, when I think of the situation that the man was living in.
In 1968 I [...]

School days

This is a picture of my school, Ascot Priory, in Berkshire England. It was an Anglo Catholic convent. After the reformation when England became a protestant country, not acknowledging the Pope, England was no longer Roman Catholic but the state religion was called Anglo Catholic.
The door closest in the picture was the main access [...]

Male emancipation

Its is snowing outside and about -9C. I haven’t been out of the house today, I have a roaring fire warming the place and I was wondering what to write about today so I looked up some information on penguins.
The life of the Antartic Emporer Penguin is quite unusual. Penguins have a lot of body [...]

My earliest memory

I must have been only about two because I was still sleeping in my crib. I had had the most dreadful nightmare, I am still able to see it my minds eye even, now 58 years later. I think my mother, illadvisedly, had been warning me about the ‘bogie man’ coming for me, if I [...]