Fire Smoke
We’ve been routinely waking up to the smell of campfire, and not in a good way. Last year I had this idea of creating a video series to accompany this site, and I actually produced a couple early episodes, where I would have a sit around a campfire — maybe…
Half Ha Ling
This month marks a year and a half since our local area got caught up in the global pandemic that, among many other things, made world travelling near impossible. We’ve made up for this by trying to find some room between the bad news, ever-shifting-work-life, and many cancelled plans to…
The Brink
A couple weeks ago I stood at the edge of a cliff, half way up a mountain, looking west across a smoky haze shrouding the setting sun as it cast an eerie pall upon the landscape. As the summer forecast creeps into higher and higher temperatures, the meteorologists are predicting…