Tag: Get Out
A Year of Discoveries
It looks like this winter is going to be another topsy-turvy one. The freezing rain that has just started as I write this column may be heavy and dangerous. I hope not. The thaw…
In the Bleak Mid-Winter
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan; Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. This is…
After Hallowe’en but Before Christmas
It’s been a glorious fall and still a few leaves linger on some trees. But the weather is showing signs that fall is ready to leave the stage and welcome in winter. This is…
In Defense of the Common
Some birds you look up to see on the wing and some you have to look up in a book. On a good day, you’ll encounter both. On a good day, maybe hiking on…
The Death of a Tree
The Distillery Street entrance to Medd’s Mountain Park is still blocked off; but you can walk beside the fencing and enter the park. As well, you can enter the park via the boardwalk from…
High Summer
Many of us thought the summer would never come. Were we ever wrong! And in both the garden and in wild areas plants seem to have caught up after the very slow spring. Now…
Get Out! July 2019
The first day of summer was marvellous! That day I discovered that a maple tree that hangs slightly over from the neighbours’ yard was host to two bird nests this season. An oriole chose…
Get Out – and Speak Out!
With the summer solstice just a few weeks away, we will soon say goodbye to a very bad winter and a very strange spring. All the spring firsts were delayed this year, from the…
What next?!
I promise I won’t dwell on the negatives! In my column for March of this year I wrote that this time of year was always two steps forward and one step back but this…