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…
Mary Soderstrom
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…
Saturday Unphoto: From Bloomberg Green on Wild Fire
By Linda Poon The worst day for human-caused fires in the U.S. is July 4. That’s a particular problem this year, as a historic heat wave and record drought have…
Saturday Photo: Gate to Where?
Lots of changes in the world. Sad news about the past coming out. Pandemic easing here, but raging elsewhere. All of this, plus drought and heat waves come to mind…
Saturday Photo: Gypsy Moths….
This week I went for a walk in one of my favourite places, the Mount Royal Cemetery. This time of year it usually is full of flowers and fruit like…
Saturday Photo: Mangroves, the Key to Sea Rise Control?
Firsts installment of the photos some friends in Jakarta took for me, as I try to research what’s happening there for my new project, Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from…
Saturday Photo: Adventure in the Middle of the City
Last weekend we spent a glorious Saturday in Parc Agrignon with some young friends. It’s a very large park by urban standards, and has a Métro station at its edge.…
Saturday Photo: What to Read…
We’ve just set the list for the 2021-22 season of the Atwater Book Club. Here it is, if you want t get a head start! 2021 September 1 Klara and…
Saturday Photo: The Animals of My Neighborhood…and Jokes
When this Covid business started and I was effectively cut off from our grandchildlren, I looked around for ways to keep in contact with them. Sending letters was a partial…
Saturday Photo: May Afternoon at Giverny
Twice in May we visited Monet’s garden at Giverny, north of Paris. It was a lovely experience each time, with the flowers in full bloom and the weather wonderful. The…
Saturday Photo: Making Book Lists for Next Year–and Maybe Summer Reading
I love this painting called Couch on the Porch, Cos Cob, by Childe Hassam. Painted in 1914, it captures the feeling of summery days, pre-airconditioning. Would love to have your…
Saturday Photo: More Whimsy
Last summer some kids near Parc Molson spent some happy time making a little scene in front of a tree in the strip of greenery between the sidewalk and the…
Saturday Photo: Am I Blue? No, How Could You Be with This Kind of Display
Garden escapes in the woods last Sunday! Just gorgeous. And there there’s this couple:
Saturday Photo: Ahead of Time, But the Flowers Are Up
The bees are buzzing around the scylla and other early plants in the front yard, about two weeks earlier than usual. People are enjoying the weather (even though we’re about…
Saturday Photo: (Very) Urban Agriculture
This year’s crop from the ornamental orange tree. Have had up to 23 in the past, and this year it took months for these to ripen (they’d set on during…