When things were new and not so complicated

Homegrown

Take the time to read this excellent piece written by Michael Pollan.

Icing

Dream on the wall

The Rooftop Garden Project

"The Rooftop Gardening Project is an innovative partnership between Alternatives, an international cooperation network, and Santropol Roulant, a community organisation in Montreal. Together we are making widespread rooftop gardening a reality in Montreal and around the world. Our novel soil-less gardens empower urban residents to produce their own food, green their neighbourhoods and build healthy communities.

From seed to the table, The Rooftop Garden Project has a unique perspective on what a community garden can yield. The food that we grow and harvest in the Montreal demonstration garden is cultivated entirely by volunteers and members of our community, and goes directly to nourishing seniors and others living with a loss of autonomy."

Santropol Roulant

Photos taken in the Santropol Roulant kitchen - Montreal
"Santropol Roulant is a Montreal-based not-for-profit organization founded and run by young people in the community. We bring people together across generations and cultures through our innovative meals-on-wheels service, our intergenerational activities and our volunteer programs.

Santropol Roulant uses food as a vehicle to break social and economic isolation between generations and to strengthen and nourish our local community. We engage a diversity of people to take an active role in their communities through initiatives that address the health and food security needs of seniors and Montrealers living with a loss of autonomy."

*Yawwn*...Goodmorning!

M.Courgette - a Portrait

Pay No Attention to the Tourists

If Ottawa could just sprout a few mountains and lakes like this....perfect...

Downstream

This Old House, That Old House

Tip Toe

Could I honestly call myself an Ottawa native if I didn't post some tulip pictures at this time of year?

thinking of Jude

I wish it was fall

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower" -Albert Camus

Happy Birthday K+K

Happy Birthday KarenP and KellyA!

Poppies

"And now, my beauties, something with poison in it, I think. Something with poison in it, but attractive to the eye, and soothing to the smell. Poppies... Poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep." - Wicked Witch of the West

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I took this photo at an open air market in southern France. I remember asking the vendor if they minded me taking pictures (which they didn't) and then proceeding to try to frame the shot while the vendor and others watched intently. I panicked. I rushed to take the shot so that I could thank them and promptly move along. Pretty silly, in hindsight. I was so preoccupied with feeling self-conscious that I even forgot that I wanted to buy one!

In the end, I'm still not sure how I would have framed it differently - there are a lot of different lines going on in there. I'll have to keep at it anyway...not worrying about the people watching, learning to see and compose faster. Wish I wasn't so slowtrepid.

"What we have to learn, we learn by doing." -Aristotle

Joyeuses Pâques

"Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing." -Albert Laighton