Montreal’s Jardin botanique, as I’ve been saying here recently, is one of the loveliest places around. Evenn this morning, with a steady rain falling, Jeanne would have spent the whole…
I’ve put it off long enough–got to do some cleaning today. No time for any reflections other than to say that the kitchen floor is awfully dirty. Since Thomas is…
I’ve mentioned before how I don’t ride bikes, but I must admit I like the idea of people riding all over the city. Yesterday I walked from our place to…
Today is the first day I’ve ever had to boil water. Every summer there are warnings for communities in the hinterland that the supply is low, or there’s been a…
One of the things I’ve been doing for years is volunteer for a three hour shift once a week at a local children’s hospital. I rock babies, play with toddlers,…
What’s this nonsense of starting a petition to change the May holiday from Victoria Day/the Queen’s Birthday to include reference to First Nations? I can readily understand renaming the third…
Marie Victorin was a Roman Catholic teaching brother and naturalist who championed access to nature for all. He was the driving force behind the establishment of Montreal’s lovely Jardin botanique…
As of 2:18 p.m., 2,957 people had signed the petition protesting the hikes in entrance fees to Montreal’s botanical garden. Here’s the link: now sign!!!
It not be illegal, but it sure is fishy: Mike Duffy had his debts paid off by a friend of Stephen Harper’s to the tune of more than $90,000. This…
The Swansea University scientists say that this is not, in and of itself, evidence of climate change, but it sure is change of some kind. In this video, posted May…
When I grew up in Southern California, getting a driver’s license was a rite of passage. I actually got mine before I was 16, and Lee didn’t even ask me…
The more I think about the plan to charge high fees to visit Montreal’s Jardin botanique, the more annoyed I get. When we first came here eons ago, it was…
Once upon a time you could get into Montreal’s Jardin botanique for nothing, anytime. Then fees were added for the greenhouses, and for non-Montrealers who wanted to visit the outside…
Robert Nelson has new fans! The leader of the 1838 phase of Lower Canada’s Rebellion and president of the Republic of Lower Canada has his own page and song produced…
I may have mentioned that I’m working on a new non-fiction project–rather vague at the moment, but having to do with time, roads and the traces that humans leave on…
One of my few claims to cool is that I’ve been a Miles Davis fan since infancy, or thereabouts. I remember buying this on vinyl one glorious summer Saturday in…
Far too much stuff this morning–a day when there are huge stories on the international scene–about the bizarre escape of three young women after, it would seem, about 10 years…
Okay, how do you bring gardens to the city? Here’s one man’s crusade. Ron Finley gardens in South Los Angeles, and if he can do it, you can do it.
The first week in May is the week the leaves apppear almost without fail. It’s almost explosive, you can practically see them grow from hour to hour. Here are two…
A friend in California just wrote about their extended drought, just as the first news of brush and grass fires make the news. I spent a couple of hours this…
