August 9, 2022 – Rooftop Garden Updates

[envira-gallery id='6115'] August 9 rooftop garden update.  Up until now the only thing that we've been able to actually really eat has been lettuce and snap peas and the snap peas are becoming more prolific as the season goes on. But now we're also starting to see many of the...

Visual Journal – A Sketch A Day

Back in April, I had a beautiful visit to Bellingham - traditional territory of the Lummi Nation – Lhaq 'temish (People of the Sea). There we visited a favourite of mine: Village Books in Fairhaven. I had been wanting to have a sketch book or journal for a while, but...

Growing Chamomile for Tea

Chamomile growing on the rooftop. Regularly harvesting to dry for delicious herbal tea. [envira-gallery id='6045']

Salish Sea

The Salish Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean located in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. state of Washington. It includes the Strait of Georgia, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, and an intricate network of connecting channels and adjoining waterways. Salish Sea...

August 8, 2022 Coquihalla (Sto:lo and Nlaka’pamux)

Coquihalla Summit is a highway summit along the Coquihalla Highway in British Columbia, Canada. It is the highest point on the highway between the cities of Hope and Merritt.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coquihalla_Summit [envira-gallery id='6030'] Kw'ikw'iya:la (Coquihalla) in the Halq'emeylem language of the Stó:lō, is a place name meaning "stingy container." It refers to a fishing rock near...

August 5, 2022 Mountains from the Valley (Sto:lo, Nlaka’pamux)

Views of the Cascade Mountains from the Fraser Valley. Also some snowcapped shots of Mount Baker (Mount Baker, also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a 10,781 ft active glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Source.)...

British Columbia Maps

Physiographic region of British Columbia from British Columbia in a Global Context by Geography Open Textbook Collective Figure 8.1 Physiographic region of British Columbia by Hilda Anggraeni from Michael Church, June M. Ryder, 2010. Compendium of forest hydrology and geomorphology in British Columbia. Government of British Columbia. http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/Lmh/Lmh66 Biogeoclimatic Zones from Simon Fraser University...