Tag Archives: nature I was so grateful! Vancouver is a beautiful city. and it has always had a magical place in my childhood, adolescent, and young-adult memories. For much of my young life I either lived nearby, or visited often. Last year, I went back for the first time in many many years. And, although it was as […]  Pictures don’t do it justice! There is nothing like being in the Himalaya with magnificent jagged snow-capped peaks rising all around. The rarified spring air, thinned by the altitude (3210 m), and the effort involved in the steep, 1.4 km hike up the hill from Ghorepani in the dark, only add to the feeling of […]  I woke up with my fingers crossed. All night long the rain had thundered on my roof. I live a short distance from Pambula, and I could only hope that the Ephemeral Festival there that day, on the Panboola Wetlands, would go ahead. It wouldn’t be the first time the whole site had been flooded […]  I think the forests of British Columbia (BC), Canada must be my Spirit Home. It was my first time to the north end of Vancouver Island, at the very west of Canada, but I felt right at home! I was on a BC road trip, and was booked to take the long ferry trip north […]  I’m very lucky: I live in a region with a magnificent coastline, lined with national and civic parks which are criss-crossed by walking trails. Even so, I have to be reminded to get out of my own immediate back yard from time to time! That is why I am so pleased that my local branch […] |
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