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spring

Spring is Happening!

April 10, 2019

Spring has officially sprung on the west coast

Tags bees, cherries, flowers, gardening, gardens, hyacinth, iris, perennial garden, primula, pulsatilla, spring

Progress

April 25, 2018

Yesterday I got the OK to start putting more weight on my injured leg. Looking forward to getting out in the garden to start weeding … Read more

Tags gardening, injury, knee injury, outdoors, spring, talismans, treasures, veggie garden, walking, work

Spring: Snow, Water, Wildfire, and Gardening

April 11, 2018

The BC River Forecast Centre (RFC) released their April 1 snow survey bulletin this week. April 1st snow water equivalent (the depth of water you’d … Read more

Tags flooding, gardening, injury, knee injury, La Nina, perennial garden, river forecast centre, rivers, snow, spring, veggie garden, weather, wildfire

When it comes to nature, what language are we speaking?

February 14, 2018

Spring seems as though it’s halfway here, but it can’t make up its mind. The daffodils are starting to sprout, as is the garlic. The … Read more

Tags climate change, communication, drought, endling, environment, environmental change, Faith Kearns, George Monbiot, language, nature, poetry, Rebecca Solnit, Rob Macfarlane, Robin Wall-Kimmerer, solastalgia, spring, technology, trees, Wade Davis, Wendell Berry, words

No Drought in Sight (yet)

June 17, 2017

It’s amazing how much impact the weather has on your state of mind. It’s June and the land is green, lush and verdant after a … Read more

Tags drought, Flood, gardening, hydrology, spring, Vancouver Island, vegetation, veggie garden, weather

Focus On Spring

March 15, 2017

It’s been a cold winter and cool spring here on southern Vancouver Island, with more snow than we’re used to. Right now our upper elevation … Read more

Tags birds, chronic illness, depression, flowers, mental health, spring, weather

On Writer's Block and the Permission to Succeed

April 4, 2016

The wind is racing through the forest canopy like breakers crashing on the beach, releasing clouds of egg yolk yellow pollen into the unsettled air. … Read more

Tags Banff, CNFC Society, doubt, failure, mental health, spring, success, writer's block, writing

I see spring

March 22, 2014

Living in a landscape as dynamic as the West Coast, you can’t avoid the heady drama of the region’s seasonal cycles. On this the third … Read more

Tags Brant geese, ecology, flowers, herring, nature, ocean, pacific northwest, seasons, spring, Trumpeter swans, Vancouver Island, west coast

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