In the last part of July I was first in Kelowna and then in Calgary. My daughter in Kelowna took me on a hike in part of the Mission Creek Greenway, but with a temperature in the 30s I found it too hot hiking in the sun,  so instead wemore…

The bench in last week’s Trail talk was one on the Maitland Trail on the section between River Line and Sharpes Creek Line.  I installed it so that hikers could rest after climbing up the hill that I labeled Skunk cabbage hill after the large number of skunk cabbages onmore…

The bench in memory of Tom Lobb was another very recent addition on the George G. Newton Nature Reserve. Helen Lobb submitted this remembrance of Tom, ”In a phrase as quoted by Steve Bowers “Tom was a true champion of the Woods!” Tom had an amazing amount of knowledge about plants,more…

The bench in last week’s trail talk was a very recent addition on the George G. Newton Nature Reserve Trail. The bench was built by Bob Budd in honour of his friend Bill Johnston.  It features white cedar planks from Bob’s farm, finished with beeswax collected from Bill’s bees. Itmore…

The bench in last week’s trail talk was a bench on the Naftel’s Creek Conservation area blue trail. The very creative bench this week was only installed this year on one of the area’s shorter trails. Unfortunately vandals removed the only bench on the Front road trail, which was shown in Trailmore…

A short spell of  hot weather brought out those little mosquitoes that love your blood.  Apart from the great variety of repellents the other thing worth considering is to wear light coloured (white or pale yellow) clothing, or the various styles of “bug jackets”, which have the disadvantage of makingmore…

The bench in last week’s trail talk was the bench in memory of Patrick King in the Maitland Woods. His daughter Sephanie wrote this memory of him, “After his retirement and probably more so in his 70’s dad would walk each day though the woods, sometimes twice a day (hemore…

The bench in last week’s trail talk was the bench on the Lobb trail near the plaque commemorating Dorothy Marie Bogie who died suddenly on her 77th birthday, January 8th 2021 while enjoying a beautiful day outdoors with friends. On May 17th I completed one year of keeping a Naturalistmore…