Category: Nature
At the Edge of Nowhere - Amber Painting
February 4, 2025
In this painting, Amber, a yellow-orange couch is resting in the middle of the Comox logging road. The setting is referenced from a blurry photo I took at dusk in winter. I ...
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Cougar Annie and the Art of Survival
December 2, 2024
Cougar Annie was a legendary character on the west coast. At the end of a five-day hike around the Hesquiat Peninsula with friends, we received a tour of Cougar Annie’s garden led ...
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Why I Love Bikes
October 31, 2024
I can still remember my first bike. It was a red “girls” bike with a matching red and white seat. I called it Thunder, pretending it was a horse, and rode it ...
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A Wild Experience - Hiking the Hesquiat Peninsula
September 29, 2024
At the end of August I hiked the Hesquiat trail with my husband and four other friends. The trail follows the coast of the Hesquiat Peninsula, a large promontory just south of ...
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How Colour Makes Me Feel
August 29, 2024
I’ve often imagined that observing bright colours, especially in nature, was like taking vitamins. The neon green moss in the forest in February, an intense dark blue sky behind white snowy trees, ...
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Making Tracks on the West Coast Trail
June 24, 2024
In May 2024 I hiked the West Coast Trail, for the second time (last time was about 2004), with a couple friends. The trail is a 75km journey that steals its way ...
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Did the Dinosaurs Think?
April 1, 2024
Categories: Creativity, Nature
It can be hard to believe, that we live our day to day lives on land that was once shaped by ice or volcanic lava, been the bottom of an ocean, or ...
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The Shaping of Worlds - The Legacy of Alexander Von Humboldt
February 1, 2024
We may not always realize how individuals and movements throughout time have shaped how we view the world today. One example I recently learned about was in Andrea Wulf’s book: The Invention ...
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Seeing the Forest and the Trees
November 1, 2023
Giant trees have an aura. When I walked through the “Old Growth Loop” at Elk Falls Park, I had the same feeling I sometimes get walking through an art gallery. You have ...
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How Birds Give Us a Sense of Wonder
October 3, 2023
One of the most precious gifts I received as a child was a large picture book of birds painted by the 19th century ornithologist/artist, James Audubon. It was from my grandparents in ...
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