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Last Light on the Rapids
Blink and 2022’s almost half way done, summer is almost upon us, and big raindrops keep us company. I’ve spent a lot of time this year ruminating on reactions to things, careful not to dwell in the past, but in an effort to be more present in how I make my own decisions and manage…
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The Patience to Build and wait
Every time I think I’ve pushed through a certain kind of stress, another one kind of shows up to rudely crash my party. My mental toolkit of things to keep my head above the water is getting a little messy – the screwdriver is missing, there’s an empty plastic baggie that once held drywall screws,…
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Last Season’s Start
Oh hey – if you’re reading this, you’ve most certainly made it to 2022. High fives all around. It’s been a Time, folks. I had my first solo Christmas, it dumped snow! Gave myself an extended holiday which has just kind of… kept doing due to job cancellations from COVID. I have been able to…
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Starry Surface
Love real-life particle physics generators but with ducks. Nothing’s very the same for very long, isn’t it? Keeps us on our toes. With November coming in like a freight train, I find autumn in Vancouver a rather short, wet affair followed by many months of a humid, low cloud ceiling sort of vibe. The past…
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Ebb and Lily Pad
Autumn is officially here; with it comes cozy, spiced coffees and evenings spent making big batches of food to stock in the freezer for when things get busy. Some heavy rain has caught me while at work a couple of times and has had me thinking “maybe summer wasn’t so bad’, but the grass is…
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Just Giggin’
Recently I went on a last minute camping trip towards Merrit, BC and found a slew of ponds, forestry roads, and small amphibian havens to set up shop at. I saw sparring osprey, brooding vultures, circling hawks, literal legions of toadlets, a single solitary salamander, and all of the other things that set up shop…
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Red-Osier Dogwood at the Marsh
It’s been a while – both since I’ve been out to shoot things, and since I’ve posted! So Hi, happy almost-summer. Time has passed – so inevitably, things have changed. I live somewhere new now with some room to spread out, and seems I have a jam-packed June to jump into. 2021 so far has…
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Egg Yolk Sunset
You cannot support your community by putting down others. Support kind of begets support; which is nice, we should perpetuate that more. The ability to listen is really important! Also just because something doesn’t affect you, doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect others! It’s been a loooong while since I got out into the brush to…
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Humming breezes through Clover
It’s Valentines Day! Today, appreciate all of the relationships in your life – the different kinds of love, and the importance of each. As a kid, love kind of only meant what I saw in the movies – like Big Broadway Love with Huge Declarations of specifically romantic love. I am basically a dinosaur now,…
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The Surface of the Water is a Special Place
January’s blown by and I’m finding my footing in some new things. Doing some new work and getting a lot of reading done, surprisingly. Trying very earnestly to wrap my head around the business end of being a freelancer and am flummoxed every. single. day. Judging by how things have been going so far, the…