Thanks to the Kanaka Education and Environmental Partnership Society K.E.E.P.S. and Metro Vancouver Parks for a fun and informative Ravenous Raptors day!
Salmon Dreams – a walk through memory in Riley Park/ Little Mt.
Enjoyed this walk ‘n talk with the False Creek Watershed Society.
Here’s the description:
Salmon Dreams – a walk through memory in Riley Park/ Little Mountain Landscape.
Please join us for our 3rd annual ‘Connecting to Place’ gathering.
Our exploration will nurture a connection with the visible and hidden waterways in the Riley Park/Little Mountain Neighbourhood. The guides are Celia Brauer, co-founder and staff of the False Creek Watershed Society and Amy Kiara Ruth, a somatic movement educator. We will continue afterwards with a gathering filled with community connection, scrumptious snacks and hot beverages!
We acknowledge that we gather and garden on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-waututh First Nations.
Urban Wildlife — We’re All Wildlife
Yumi and I attended an event the other day on urban wildlife.
I found some of the discussion disturbing. There was a notion bandied about that perhaps we should wall off our cities from wildlife, to, er, protect the wildlife.
I think the #1 issue about modern city folks and wildlife is the lack of contact, knowledge, and experience.
How do we “help” wildlife by detaching human beings even further from nature?
Yes, of course there are conflicts at the urban-suburban/wild interface. But putting up walls, be they physical or mental, is not going to make this better.
Some brave soul noted the we, humans, are just another species of mammals. Isn’t that obvious?
We humans keep taking up more and more of the land. And when the animals try to do what they’ve been doing for millennia, all of a sudden they’re pests, or they’re dangerous.
I know folks who live much closer to the so-called wild. When they see a bear in their yards, they’re careful, and they let the bear enjoy the apple tree. They don’t call officers to shoot the bear, they don’t shoot the bear themselves.
They live with the bear.
Great Blue Herons at Iona Beach Regional Park
There were over a dozen herons snoozing in the reeds at Iona Beach Regional Park near YVR today. By the time I completed a loop of the park and got back to the marsh they had livened up.
Snow Geese at Iona Beach Regional Park near YVR
Took advantage of a rare sunny day to head out to Iona Beach Regional Park. Was elated to see flocks of Snow Geese!
Sunny Walk at Barnet Marine Park, Burnaby
We stopped at Barnet Marine Park in north Burnaby, BC, for a beach ramble. The sun was magnificent after weeks of daily rain and snow.
The big tugs can leave a good wake!
I like that a few bits of the area’s industrial history have been left to explore. It’s hard to believe the area was a near-separate community for decades.
Palo 12-Slot Battery Charger Looking Good
Got one of these on Amazon the other day. A Palo 12-slot charger. It has a recondition function, and can take both NiMH and NiCD batteries, AA and AAA. So far, so good! C$40.
I have a couple of 4-slot chargers, but it’ll be great to be able to plug in just one and do a dozen.
Keeping an Eye on Time Machine
I have an old Mac Mini that I use to play around with some Mac apps, and to use as a Netflix machine. I noticed today that Time Machine was not finding the backup disk. This has happened several times over the last few months even though I never turn off the Mini, and never unplug the external drive Time Machine is backing up to.
Turning the drive off and on did nothing, unplugging it from the USB port and plugging it back in did nothing. I had to reboot the Mini to get Time Machine to find the drive again.
Will have to keep an eye on this.
Remembering to Log In to WordPress as Admin
I realized it’s been ages since I logged in to this WordPress blog as admin to check for updates and to see if VaultPress was still regularly backing up the site.
No worries, VaultPress has been chugging away just fine, and has over 50 backups in the, er, vault.
But there were several updates to install.
Choco’s First Anniversary
I remembered that our beloved Choco passed today, a year ago.
She was a wonderful cat, very intelligent and personable. We mourned for months, and eventually adopted Sora from the SPCA, and she’s filled a void in our hearts.
But Choco was amazing, and we honor her memory, her spirit, and the love that she showered upon us for so many years.
One of my fave shots back in 2004.