• A painful price for beauty

    A photo may be worth a lot of words but in one case that was not enough! Looking at my Hawaiian ocean photos during the last few days transported me back to a rather unpleasant experience. My memory may have seemed more vivid since I was nursing a face swollen beyond recognition from dental surgery.… Continue Reading

  • End of the road

    I find few things as satisfying as closure. On Hawaii’s Big Island we had the fun of following a road until it stopped at the edge of the uninhabited Polulu Valley. It was the end of the line. Our “pot of gold” was a spectacular view across the ocean with enormous cliffs carving into the oncoming waves. The… Continue Reading

  • Very wet falls

    It’s a bit ironic that I love sitting and watching water crashing over falls but I can’t seem to make a photo worthy of the experience. Repeated efforts over the years have only dampened my expectations. About six weeks ago, we were driving around cloud-covered mountains in my least favourite weather – pouring rain. The… Continue Reading

  • Beaver beats the odds

    I like beavers. The toothy dam builder is a familiar prairie icon that is industrious, agile and resilient. It’s somehow comforting to see a beaver’s nose gliding along the water then effortlessly disappear in the fading light. At first blush it makes sense that the beaver is a Canadian icon. Just look at all those… Continue Reading

  • Wild neighbours keep me entertained

    There’s nothing quite as interesting as watching the neighbours. On June 30, I introduced the IQ-challenged robin that performed multiple face plants on our living room window before building a nest (What’s that racket?). Oddly it abandoned the nest and left behind a broken egg and a whole one. Mysteriously the whole nest disappeared when… Continue Reading

  • Bear buffet

    Free food is always in demand my boss declared more than two decades ago. It seemed to make sense. In early June of this year, I started to wonder if it was true. We had discovered a number of bears eating dandelions in the Rockies though I didn’t think it was helpful for their image.… Continue Reading