In Canada, there has been a bit of a hullabaloo about poppies. Not real poppies; the fake kind that people wear for Remembrance Day. One of our hockey commentators made remarks insisting that immigrants have a duty to buy poppies and there has been a huge blowback in […]
This afternoon, on Remembrance Day, I went for a walk to get some fresh air. We had a heavy snowfall two nights ago and I didn’t get out at all yesterday so I was feeling a bit of cabin fever. I had my camera with me and took […]
As regular readers may have guessed, I have a soft spot for red brick buildings. I suspect that is partly because they are rarely built these days, and partly because they remind me of the English neighbourhood I grew up in. Whatever the reason, I like the way […]
Quite by chance in our wanderings today, Jamie and I came across the historic McKay Avenue School. The building is currently being used as the Edmonton Public Schools Archive and Museum. It is a lovely building with some interesting features and we were drawn to it from the […]
Borden Park in Edmonton is one of my favourite places to go for a walk, and I have posted pictures of it here previously. (October Afternoon, Autumn, Sunday Morning) One of the things I like about it is that is home to lots of sculptures. It reminds me […]
Borden Park is one of Edmonton’s best-kept secrets. When we moved here in 2014 I would walk to this park but since then I have had a couple of bad falls and I can no longer walk that far, so today I drove there. Even so, I had […]
In Alberta our bottles and cans can be returned for a refund, so every once in a while we take them to the nearest bottle depot. There are four people in our household contributing to a collection of empties. We put them in blue bags and line them […]
I am a snowbird who travels south for the winter. When I get there I have a bird of paradise plant on my patio.
