Childhood photo

Caitlin-childhood

I had a birthday recently. My mother sent me this photo in a frame as a gift. I thought I had seen all my childhood photos but this is not one I have seen before. The photo is of my mother and me some time in the late 1970s or 1980 at the latest. All [...]

Urban biodiversity – Life in the concrete jungle

Squirrel

Cities have a bad rap for being environmental baddies and that’s not always justified. While I love visiting beautiful wilderness areas, I know that my impact on the planet’s ecology is often less in a city because I don’t need a car to get there or get around. I’ve previously written about greening your city [...]

Photo Friday: Trafalgar Square with pigeons in 1990s London

Trafalgar-Square-1998

Trafalgar Square, London; December 1998 After last week’s trip down memory lane to a childhood holiday in Fiji, here is another time travel edition of Photo Friday. This is Trafalgar Square in London in 1998, with the Canadian High Commission in the background. My mother was living in Cambridge at the time and I spent [...]

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