Saturday Photo: Smoke in the West Usambara Mountains
The photo was taken 15 years ago when I was travelling in Africa–Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya. People were preparing for the planting season, burning the stubble left from the previous…
Mary Soderstrom
Saturday Photo (Better Late Than Never): Road through Time
This is a little late because I've been doing such things as looking over the copy edit of my new book Road through Time: The Story of Humanity on the…
Saturday Photo: From Haiti, with Love
Something like 45 years ago I took my first trip outside the North American continent when my sister and her husband invited me to go with them to Haiti. He…
Saturday Photo: Out the Door, School Is Coming….
...and Jeanne just turned six!It was a week of birthdays: Lukas on Monday, Stuart on Tuesday and Jeanne of Friday. So last weekend they all were over to celebrate along…
Saturday Photo: Out the Door, School Is Coming….
...and Jeanne just turned six!It was a week of birthdays: Lukas on Monday, Stuart on Tuesday and Jeanne of Friday. So last weekend they all were over to celebrate along…
Saturday Photo: Reflections on a Summer Day
This is the pavillion in the middle of one of our local parks. In the winter it's closed up and is used as a place to warm up when you're…
Saturday Photo: Reflections on a Summer Day
This is the pavillion in the middle of one of our local parks. In the winter it's closed up and is used as a place to warm up when you're…
Saturday Photo: Back to Giverny
Reading a book about Monet and his garden at Giverny, and I'm transported back to one of the loveliest places I've ever been. We've only visited in May, so I'd…
Saturday Photo: Back to Giverny
Reading a book about Monet and his garden at Giverny, and I'm transported back to one of the loveliest places I've ever been. We've only visited in May, so I'd…
Saturday Photo: Ducks Again…
There have been years when there have been at least three duck families cruising around the ponds in Outremont. But last year I don't think I saw any--bad timing, bad…
Saturday Photo: Ducks Again…
There have been years when there have been at least three duck families cruising around the ponds in Outremont. But last year I don't think I saw any--bad timing, bad…
Saturday Photo: Red Day Lilies Showing Their Colours
I find myself getting confused when reading about Red States and Blue States in the US. The Reds are Republican and the Blues are Democrat, which is just the reverse…
Saturday Photo: Red Day Lilies Showing Their Colours
I find myself getting confused when reading about Red States and Blue States in the US. The Reds are Republican and the Blues are Democrat, which is just the reverse…
Saturday Photo: Raspberry Moon
There seemed to be a flurry of comment about last month's Strawberry Moon. Seems Native Americans in the North East States and Canada called it that because wild strawberries were…
Saturday Photo: Raspberry Moon
There seemed to be a flurry of comment about last month's Strawberry Moon. Seems Native Americans in the North East States and Canada called it that because wild strawberries were…
Saturday Photo: Day Lilies for Difficult Days
A long time ago my son had to take a class that when I was an adolescent would have been called Home Ec (the only advance in his day was…
Saturday Photo: Day Lilies for Difficult Days
A long time ago my son had to take a class that when I was an adolescent would have been called Home Ec (the only advance in his day was…
Saturday Photo: In Clover…
When something is going good, you can say that it's in clover. Certainly thing are not going in the world these days, but it's nice to know that clover still…
Saturday Photo: In Clover…
When something is going good, you can say that it's in clover. Certainly thing are not going in the world these days, but it's nice to know that clover still…
Saturday Photo: A Beautiful Immigrant…
The fields along the CPR track through Mile End was full of dancing blue chicory (Cichorium intybus) flowers this morning. A lovely sight. The plant, of course, is an invasive…