The Snow Geese have arrived. The Canada Geese barely leave but when the snow geese fly in with their distinctive sometimes whistling honk winter may finally be showing herself out. The sighting of these guys was usual when I was growing up in the area but their explosion in numbers has apparently shifted their migration …
Snowshoeing is not new to me let’s call it reintroduced…. So striking out and up an even, a relatively small, mountain may not have been the best way to get back into things. But there I was early on a crisp Saturday morning in late February staring up the side of Mount Jo 877 meter …
Visited two of my favourite Canadian cities (it’s a short list 2/4 in 24 hours) Ottawa and Kingston as they both shook off the winter blahs and celebrated the season. Winter no matter how long is always too long in the mind of most Canadians and despite modern homes, central heating and non frozen pipes …
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more”. By William Shakespeare. (from Henry V, spoken by King Henry). While not quite up to Henry V trying to rally his troops against the French, following up an unexpected success that was JÖKULSÁRLÓN thanks to some major post editing is daunting just the same. The sudden …
Fall, September 2017 to be exact, I’m on the trip of a lifetime in Iceland nearing the final days and I’m about to reach Jökulsárlón a glacier lagoon that promises up close pictures of icebergs slowly floating to the sea. Challenges – the weather is the worst I seen since arrive in this wondrous country, …
Well not really. It turned cold and the snow came in November, then the strangeness started. We had very little snow and more melt in December and so far in January the same a few centimeters of snow then a day or more of warmth to melt most of it away. As people are fond …
On a New Year’s Eve that will mark the completion of my 56th year on the planet got thinking about the passage of time. All I can say about time is kids when the elder people in your life say it just keeps going faster – listen. Not only are they correct they are telling …
Well that’s a little chilly for November. Perhaps too, a comment on the current postal strike….
On a day of remembrance. On a place of remembrance. Remembrance.
On the sacrifices of a few for the good of many. Regimental #633290 Howard Fawcett, grandfather on my mom’s side fought with the 2nd Canadian Battalion enlisting on January 24th, 1916 and sailed out of Halifax on October 25th on the S.S. Mauretania as a member of the 154th (S.D&G Highlanders) Battalion. On June 30th, …