The La Cloche Silhouette Trail: Adventures in Backpacking

The moment I read about the La Cloche Silhouette Trail, I fell in love. The Silhouette is an 80km loop in Killarney Provincial Park that takes hikers along rugged trails that circle the ancient La Cloche Mountains, undulating hills that are all that remain of a range that once rivalled the Rockies. I could picture…

Little Green Garden

The blog has just been reactivated after a short pause, during which I escaped to a friend’s farm on Ontario’s spectacular Bruce Peninsula. The Peninsula is itself just waking up after a long winter, and the trees are still bare. The fields were green, though, and my eyes enjoyed that much-missed colour that I crave…

Two Lives

In my ideal life, I wake up at 8 and go for a run. I have a breakfast of fresh fruit and smoked fish and then I write for three hours. I go into the garden, do a little weeding, check on my vermicomposter, and have a bite of lunch before writing for another few…