Saturday Snapshot May 18: The Bow
The Bow is the newest addition to our downtown cityscape. Design architects are the acclaimed, London-based Foster and Partners. This …
Category Archives: Art
Sign of Spring: Melting Snow
These are photos for Saturday Snapshot April 27. Snow has mostly melted now, but there are still remnants of winter. …
Proust Read-Along: Swann’s Way Part One, Combray
Reading these first 264 pages of Proust conjures up some of my own memories… I was sitting in a graduate …
Saturday Snapshot April 13: Bohemian Waxwings in Flight, Defying Grey
I had the chance to see the elusive Bohemian Waxwings converge in the past weeks. Now they are gone. From …
Saturday Snapshot Feb. 9: Flying
I only started birdwatching in September last year. In these short few months I’ve come to discover the three levels …
Saturday Snapshot Jan. 26: Winter Birding
The sun and the birds are the main reasons for going into the woods in January. These are common birds …
Saturday Snapshot January 19
Winter in snow country. Here are some photos I took while trying out my new camera, a Nikon D5100. No …
Saturday Snapshot Dec. 15
Some more photos I took a few weeks ago. This time, shorebirds. Before the birding course, all birds on water …
Life of Pi (2012): The Magical 3D Experience
Movies this fall is a bumper crop of film adaptations from literary sources. Two belong to the same genre of …
Saturday Snapshot: Gliding Into The Sunset
On Thanksgiving Monday (Canada, Oct. 8), I stopped by Iona Beach in Richmond, B.C. On the smooth water illuminated in …
Saturday Snapshots July 21
Once again, Saturday Snapshots framed by a Paris in July backdrop… I was pleasantly surprised to find the open space …
Arles: In Search of Van Gogh
Watching the movie Séraphine (my last post) made me think of another artist tormented by mental illness. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) …
