The Gastown Grand Prix on a sunny evening, with cobblestones lighted by glaring late sun or cast in dark shade by tall buildings, was a fun playground to experiment with the photo challenges of the contrast of blinding light and deep shade, and intense speed.
The songbirds ushered in the Solstice, singing spun light from the northeastern horizon, pouring it into my neighbourhood, spilling a beam on the bench in my front yard.
Sailing in to catch the last of World Oceans Day, with this image taken on a grey foggy day on a ferry sailing north on the Salish Sea, from Earl’s Cove to Saltery Bay, British Read more
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Had someone tortured my child as the nuns and priests and bigots tortured the children depicted in the film, had bigots treated anyone in my circles as Saul was treated by many people, I'd have fought them all to the death. Had I known, I'd have acted. Which, of course, is the point of a movie like Indian Horse.
Even as Canada’s Western provinces and federal government war over expansion of Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain pipeline, Canadian auditors general are working together on climate change. And, their first big pan-Canadian report today reveals the toothless Read more
Quick! Someone, anyone, find us a new “just right” world in the Goldilocks zone, a planet not too hot, not too cold. And someone, anyone, build us a vast spaceship to get there – soon, Read more
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” Stephen Hawking dismissed the religious notion of “heaven,” yet brought Robert Browning’s thought to unexpected life. Hawking, the British cosmologist, theoretical Read more
More American children gunned down in school? Nothing new to see here, folks. Move on – and change the script. Social and journalism media are stuck in reruns, worldwide, of the same stupid American snuff Read more