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1 year ago

Summer is fading

Royce Shook · On this lazy morning, the flowers are in bloom but starting to fade away. The soil is warm enough for lying on with a blanket. Look around and hope is still in the air, even with all of the destruction around us. · If you just look at all that already exists in your life, all tha ...

1 year ago
1 year ago

Scan de Jour

Jim Murray · Summer is short. Make the most of it.

1 year ago

Pic de Jour

Jim Murray · To celebrate the coming of summer, I have declared this will be tree week in the Pic de Jour world.

2 years ago

Pic de Jour

Jim Murray · Literally three houses down from ours. Two summers ago.

2 years ago

Walking in a Winter wonderland

Royce Shook · Deep winter, in the Northern Hemisphere, Summer in the Southern. Walking as an exercise can be done no matter where you live. It is harder to walk in the winter, because of snow and ice. However, malls are still open even in the Pandemic (as of the writing of Dec 2021) and they a ...

2 years ago

The Pool.

Jim Murray · When we moved to St Catharines it was the seventh house we would have lived it. But this one was different in that out the back was a beautiful swimming pool. · I had never owned a house with a pool before. So my first reaction was, oh boy, that’s gonna be a lot of extra work. · ...

2 years ago

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2 years ago

Best Practices for Attracting Wild Birds to Your Garden

Pina Rossi · Spotted woodpecker in flight. Like most birds, they love sunflower seeds!It’s really cool to see all the birds you can attract just by putting out a feeder for the birds, but just because you have a feeder out doesn’t necessarily mean you will attract birds. Here are some tips fo ...

2 years ago

Post from Jim Murray

Jim Murray · Pic de Jour · This is officially the first image in a series that I will post all summer long and into the fall from my neighbourhood.

3 years ago

Sliding to the Beach

Royce Shook · I was aimlessly wandering through the Facebook posts I have saved, and I saw a video of young kids sliding down the stairs through boxes. The cardboard boxes were meant to make sliding down the stairs more fun and appear to be more dangerous to the kids. I've been thinking a lot ...

4 years ago

The Summer Of My Un-Doing and Re-Doing

Jim Murray · So, quite literally, on the first day of summer I decided that this would be the first summer of my life when I would do no work whatsoever, in terms of work that I could get paid for. · It was good timing. I was all caught up on projects. My next steps on a couple of things were ...

4 years ago

Turn, turn, turn, for everything there is a season

Royce Shook · If summer resisted fall, it wouldn't really be summer or fall. · Better to celebrate the season you're in... especially those of your wonderful life. · But maybe your life is not so wonderful now, maybe you’re in a season of transition, grief, conflict, illness, new challenges, o ...

4 years ago

How to be a teacher

Royce Shook · Teachers are wrapping up their year and looking forward to a well-deserved break over the summer. How times have changed.  Here are two sets of ideas on how to be a teacher, one from 1872 and one from 2019 · How to be a teacher in 1872 · Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean ...

6 years ago

Think of your Local Foodbank

Royce Shook · August,  summer is half over, and we are starting to think about the fall. Do you remember heading back to school as a child?  Do you remember the total mix of emotions that came with it? I certainly do. I remember the anticipation of attending a new class, the excitement of seei ...

6 years ago

Thinking of choosing a personal emblem

Royce Shook · I am sitting here listening to so I'll follow the sun. ~Lennon-McCartney and thinking of summer and summer flowers. · Is there anything that embodies cheerful radiance more than the sunflower? A brilliant emblem of summer, it stands proudly with a strength and resilience that bel ...

6 years ago

My Country Is 150 Years Old This Summer

Jim Murray · My country is called Canada. · It bills itself as “The True North Strong & Free’ and that’s the way I have always seen it. · I’ve seen summers here that can scorch the skin right off your face. · I’ve seen winters cold enough to freeze a naked body solid in minutes. · I’ve seen ...

6 years ago

Physical Intelligence - Day 49

CityVP Manjit · Weddings and the parties that arise in the Summer and Fall are definitely a test for physical intelligence, and weddings that are planned during what are called "long weekends" ironically shorten the weekend for those who have been invited to attend them.   I remember a time when ...

7 years ago

The last day before school starts ... a familiar and comfortable sensation.

Graham🐝 Edwards · We always have these conversations no matter how many decades have gone by or where we find ourselves; it seems Labour Day encourages them. They are the conversations and memories of the last day before school starts, and although not technically the last day of summer, those mem ...

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