Cross country ski trail in forest

The sounds of a not-so-silent winter

Last week, the temperature dipped to -51C, the lowest I’ve ever experienced. And that was in the morning. Mind you, wind chill was factored in but even still it was frigging cold. We’re in the small, fabulous town of Fernie, British Columbia–our home for half the year every winter. Fernie is a ski town. We…

Plants in urban ecology

What cliffs and sidewalk cracks share

Southern Ontario just got our first dump of snow and even though it’s only added up to a few centimetres (sorry, Buffalo), I’m already feeling nostalgic for green and growing things. So discovering a posting on David Suzuki’s website about eco-connections between urban and natural environments such as pavements and cliff faces, gutters and streams, was a…