2025 started with a spectacular three week visit to Madeira. We visited because we wanted to experience the famous Levada hiking trails we had read so much about and get away from the cold Collingwood weather in January. Somewhere warm but not hot, with comfortable hiking weather. With a daytime average temperature of around 16 º celsius in January, we felt that would be perfect weather to hike the UNESCO-listed forests of Madeira. Dubbed the Island of Eternal Spring, Madeira is…
2025 was a particularly cold winter and spring, and the weather in Collingwood did not really warm up until early June, the same month I turned 70 and I decided that…
What started as a necessity six years ago (the Doctors told me I needed to lose some weight for surgery, so I started to run five days a week), has become…
Ratatouille is a traditional French Provençal dish of stewed summer vegetables that originated as a peasant food in the southern region of France. But I knew it better from the Disney…
Our bike trails really are Collingwood’s Jewel in Hiding. This is now my third full year of riding the trails daily for our groceries, a fun little challenge I gave myself…
We both continue to enjoy our lives in Collingwood in the Spring, Summer and Fall. It’s a beautiful place to live and is a recreational cornucopia. There are a ton of…
The Gladden Spit (above) and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve is a protected area of the Belize Barrier Reef, which has become world-famous for its whale shark migration. The Silk Cayes are…
On my bike ride to do groceries on a late September day, I heard splashing coming from The Pretty River and realized the Chinook Salmon were spawning and wandered down to…
The Flamingo Tongue Snail is a small marine snail that lives on coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean. For many years, I wanted to photograph one but never seemed to…
