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…
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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…
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…
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…
Saturday Photo: Resilience,, Times Two
This is the Bibliothèque Mordecai-Richler, lodged in what was formerly The Church of the Ascension, an Anglican church that closed its doors something like 30 years ago. Using the church…
Saturday Photo: Resilience, or Something to Remember When You’re Feeling Caged in
This was taken in a new park in my neighborhood. The plantings are all perennials, and most are native to the region. This has mean that they’d done very well…
Saturday Photo: Happy Thanksgiving, Despite Everything
This Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. The statutory holiday is Monday but we’ve always celebrated whenever it’s convenient for friends and family to get together. At times we have had big potluck…
Saturday Photo: The Streams That Flow to the Fleuve
I’ve always wondered at the distinction made in modern French between fleuve and rivière. For a long time I thought that one was big and the other little, but that’s…
Saturday Photo: Summer’s End But the Weather Continues Warm, Maybe Too Warm
Like kids in a class portrait at the end of the school year, these sunflowers stood tall a week ago when I walked by them, enjoying the amazing summer-like weather.…
Saturday Photo: The Salish Sea from Space…
The Salish Sea–the Puget Sound, Strait of Juan da Fuca, Georgia Strait area– is one of the regions I look at carefully in my new book Against the Seas: Saving…
Saturday Photo: Mangroves, Another Tool in the Fight against Rising Seas
Glad to report that it looks like I’ll be signing a contract very soon for my next book Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Seas. Details will follow, but…
Saturday Photo: Salt Marsh: the Answer to Our Problems?
It looks like I’ll be getting a contract for Against the Seas: Saving Civilizatins from Rising Oceans rather soon, so I thought I’d share another photo from our trip to…
Saturday Photo: School Starts, Summer Was Too Hot and Dry
This is not this year’s batch of kids going to school: you can see that there’s not a mask in the lot. But school started in Montreal this week, and…
Saturday Photo: The Batture at Saint-André de Kamouraska
Note: this was such a good trip I’m posting it twice! Down in the Bas St-Laurent recently to see how people there cope with rising sea levels. This is the…
Saturday Photo: Batture or a Walk on the Tamed Side
Spent a great few days in the Lower St. Laurent, including walks on the batture, the dikes constructed to keep back the tides and make the Kamouraska lowlands ready for…
Saturday Photo: Middens on Vancouver Island
The New Yorker had an interesting read this week about ways to save us from rising sea levels. The basic idea is the encouragement of artificial reefs that would be…
Saturday Photo: To Bee or Not to Bee…
The bees are out, thank goodness. In this time of so many things not going right, it’s a pleasure to see them at work in the ‘hood. It helps that…
Saturday Photo: In Memory of Everyone Who Died before Their Time
My sister Laurie died suddenly in July 2002. She was beautiful, as well as being smart and exceedingly concerned about justice. Here is the day Lee and I got married:…
Saturday Photo: The Rapids Where the Going Gets Tough, If Not Impossible
Spent a lovely few hours last Sunday at the Parc des rapides on the St. Lawrence. These rapids and the St. Mary’s rapid to the east effectively blocked sailing ships…
Saturday Photo: Wayward Grass….
The view at the Technoparc last Sunday: grasses and clouds and birds. There was a time that we did a lo of bird-watching, but kids and dogs got in the…