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 in an effort to enjoy the outdoors, get some exercise and lead a more sustainable life. Over those three years, I have logged just about 12,000 kilometres on my bike, which translates into a reduction of my carbon footprint by 3.25 tons of carbon dioxide. From a purely economical point…
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…
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…
This summer has been a good one for backyard visitors. This beautiful black swallowtail butterfly showed up last week looking for some sun on our mulch bed when I noticed him…
On Sunday mornings I usually have a bowl of oatmeal with blueberries, banana and a scoop of Oikos high protein vanilla yogurt. I find it comfort food. I like the whole…
This summer, while doing some garden clean-up, I came across this tiny exquisite nest in one of our trees and did some research on what bird could build such a fine…
I’ve spent a lot of time over the last six years re-thinking what’s really important to me and the life I share with Yim. If there was one thing a diagnosis…
As we continue along our plant based journey, I continue to look for meals that we enjoy enough to make again and again. Recently I made this cauliflower recipe I found…
I thought that a post featuring some chronological photos of the past seventy years would be a fun thing to look back at. I was born in NDG in Montreal on…
