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…
Mary Soderstrom
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…
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…
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/
Saturday Photo: Christmas Lights
Lots of lights around here this year. I think people are fed up with darkness. This is my little contribution.
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…
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…
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…
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…