Break-up at the Lachine Rapids park. Above freezing but still chilly. Many birds though, including red winged blackbirds that seem to be delighted to be back where they nest.
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Recreating Eden: Saturday Photo: The Break-up and the Moon
Full moon this week, which coincided with the break up of ice on the St. Lawrence, which in turn meant strong tidal flow. Half the day the fractured ice flowed with the water down toward the sea, but for the other half it was pushed back by the incoming
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo:Two from The New Yorker
I have two indulgences. One is a good haircut from Wayne McLaughlin at Furisme. The other is a subscription to The New Yorker. Must go see Wayne soon, because I’m getting shaggy, but here are two great covers from the magazine.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: More Bad News on Climate Change, But Winter Is Terrific Here
March 5 here, and there’s still a lot of snow on the ground. This has been a great winter for skating, playing in the snow, skiing (I guess, I don’t) and just enjoying brisk and sunny days. Often by now the snow is gone, and certainly skating outside is problematic.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Well, Now That Maybe We’re Going to Be Able to Get out and about…
A friend just sent this. Seems it was made nearly two years ago, but it’s still funny today. Maybe we’ll eventually get out of this …..
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: What I Feel Like with Rain and Turkeys demonstrating
Well, actually it’s just a snow person who’s a little the worse for wear, given the couple of days of above-freezing temps. But given all the stupidity going around, I’m feeling just as out-of-sorts as he does. I’ve spent far more time on pickets lines and at various demonstrations than
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: The Light Is Different These Days
The days are getting longer, and during the days themselves, the sun is riding higher in the sky. The result can be glorious, cold days like today after a little snow. Makes winter worth it.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Solution for the Housing Crisis?
Fixer-upper near all conveniences. Or ready to move in if you’ve got a good snowsuit! This cold January has had some very fun moments for kids in or neighborhood.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Fumée de mer, or Freezing Fog
Awfully cold here. The St. Lawrence is warmer than the air, and is in effect steaming. But once the mist rises it freezes leaving ice-encrusted bushes and trees and magical landscapes like this.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: My Living Room Forest
The hibiscus are taller than I am, and nearly as old as my kids who have been on their own for decades. I bring them in every fall and cut them back but they still grow and grow. There’s a decorative orange tree too, that spends the winter at the
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: What to Do on a Sunny But Cold Saturday
SKATE! The photo was taken several years ago, but I still like it. Saw several kids out this morning trying their skates out. I hear our youngest grandkid just graduated from two-blade skates to the real thing, and I imagine he’s out today despite the cold. The only thing to
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: What I’d Like Everything to Be
As we start the new year, I’ve been doing quite a lot of reflection about where we should be going. At the moment, I’m really not sure. But I think we’ll find the proper destination if we keep looking for it. And to do that we need to keep our
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Sunrise on Christmas…
Over the hump, the days will be getting longer soon.. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday. Here’s the link to our blog: https://soderstromyule.blogspot.com/
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Christmas Lights
Lots of lights around here this year. I think people are fed up with darkness. This is my little contribution.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Countdown to Christmas Means an Afternoon Making Sil
This year I didn’t have quite as many, but I was finally able to buy salt herring with which to make sil, the Swedish pickled fish delight. My hands smell like fish now, but there are four jars in the fridge to be opened when the holiday festivities begin.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: The Fraser River Flood Plain
This is a photo I found on WikiCommons of the Fraser River flood plain in non-flood times. You can see how lush it is, and how the river meanders. No wonder people have wanted to farm and live near it. But you can also see the danger. When the big
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Winter Smiles and a Little Snow
Actually the photo was taken a year ago, but it fits today, the first morning we have snow in Montreal. Oh, there have been a few snowflakes but nothing that’s stayed on the ground. Not that there’s much today either, but at least winter has begun. And the first snowfall
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Jakarta Waterfront: Old and New
No post last Saturday because I was deep in the final stages of preparing my new book Against the Seas for submission. It was all done by Monday afternoon, the delivery date the publisher and I had agreed upon. So, I never did make it to Jakarta, but the book
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Puget Sound Storm, and My Book
Going into the home stretch with my book Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Oceans. Spent some time yesterday looking for images, and came across this painting by Alfred Beirstadt done in 1870. Seems the artist had not yet traveled to the Pacific Coast, and painted it from descriptions
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Halloween Anyway
No kids at our house going out trick or treating this Halloween, but I did buy a pumpkin. The photo is of someone else’s house, but I’m sharing it just because I like it. Take care!
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