A few days ago, I heard a great Big Ideas podcast lecture on ‘Remembering Winter’. The speaker talks about how the stresses of Winter shape Winter Cities and the character and memories of the people who live in them… and how the bitter cold and bleakness of Winter makes the warmth and brightness of Spring [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Vancouver & Area’
5 Jun
two great weekends, two great hikes
The weather is finally starting to turn towards summer after a cool and wet Spring…. For us, that means it’s time to get out there & do some of the hikes on our list. Last weekend, we packed up Obi & a picnic lunch and headed up to Buntzen Lake to do the trail that [...]
28 May
our weekend on Salt Spring
For the Victoria Day long weekend, Brad & I decided to do a little cabin trip out to the islands to celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary. After searching high and low for rental places in Tofino that allowed dogs (all of which were either booked or lacking in charm), we decided to expand our search [...]
19 Apr
retiring the old list for the new
I have fallen woefully behind on my blog postings… It’s not that I have had nothing to share. Quite the contrary, there have been many things over the past months that I’ve wanted to write about, but much less time for actual writing. That’s how it often goes, isn’t it? Long story short – Brad [...]
