YOUR NIAGARA PAUL
Tuesday 26 May 2015
Monday 25 May 2015
Saturday 23 May 2015
BAYFIELD INLET. FAMILY TREES
OH SORRY!
DID I FORGET TO KNOCK.
May, 2015
Our first trip up to the island this year had us planting some White Pine seedlings and a dozen Blueberry bushes.
You can come back in a couple of months for some bannock or just take a quick look at the:
BEFORE
Hey Hyla
Whats it like digging holes in the Canadian Shield?
Now we will sit around, have some soup and swap stories from those good old crazy tree planting days.
Hey, that was just fifteen minutes ago.
1993
Back in 1993 our Kilman Road property qualified for tree planting programs where the seedling were virtually free.
Here we do some forestation on and around our island.
Many still alive today.
Most pines in this current photo were planted as seedlings twenty years ago.
Thursday 21 May 2015
350 KILMAN RD., ONE OF THE LAST SUPPERS
DON'T FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!
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going over niagara paul's
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May 07, 2015
watsi for supper?
Wednesday 20 May 2015
NICOLA LEE NEMY, MAY 18, 2015
SUMMER 1992
CIRCLE OF CONDOMINIUM LIFE
TORONTO
Sis
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Saturday 16 May 2015
KATHMANDU, NEPAL - RE-VISIT
May, 2015
3) Being here in May. The busiest month of the year for Himalayan expeditions and summit attempts. Papers filled with triumphs and sadly tragedies.
2) The Hotel Kantipur Temple. Another little oasis in the heart of the city. All roads leading to and from this little heaven seem like they have just recently been or should be mortar shelled. The Inn is a beautifully walled old temple that immediately gains your respect of what possible history this place may have had. We used our inside temple voices even in the garden as we took breaks reading, writing and of course, sipping Lemon Sodas.
and
9) Getting hopelessly lost. Sticking your finger in your mouth and then holding it up to the wind seems to puzzle the locals.
8) The squalor.
6) One thing that makes me feel safe is there must be a lot of doctors in this town. Every other person walks around with a surgical mask on.
3) We have been here collectively for a little over three days. For two and half days there had been civil strike. No public transportation, some shops open, some closed. It only interfered slightly with our plans but there was always a feel of uncertainty.
Have you seen this man?
TIKA RAM SUBEDIES
2011
For some time now Kate, Hyla, Nicola and I have, like many throughout the world, many thoughts of the sad news from Nepal. Our stay in 2011 was more than just a visit to a country. It was more about the people. Some still friends today. One such friend we have been trying to get in touch with.
So far unsuccessfully.
2011
For some time now Kate, Hyla, Nicola and I have, like many throughout the world, many thoughts of the sad news from Nepal. Our stay in 2011 was more than just a visit to a country. It was more about the people. Some still friends today. One such friend we have been trying to get in touch with.
So far unsuccessfully.
We got so much from so many that have so few.
Hoping we may trek, and who knows, cycle, altogether one day again.
A re-visit to
MAY, 2011
KATHMANDU, NEPAL
We have now gone full circle in Nepal and I write:
Top six list of visiting Kathmandu.
6) Pray Wheels and Pray Flags
5) Patan Temple
4) Having found our way after being hopelessly lost in the maze of alleys and back streets. Why waste money on street signs when you have four locals showing you your four options.
5) Patan Temple
4) Having found our way after being hopelessly lost in the maze of alleys and back streets. Why waste money on street signs when you have four locals showing you your four options.
3) Being here in May. The busiest month of the year for Himalayan expeditions and summit attempts. Papers filled with triumphs and sadly tragedies.
and
1) Meeting someone on our return home and being asked, perhaps, “Paul, we didn’t see you at the Kilman Road resident bi-annual umbrella inspection get-together”. I can pause for a second and then answer, “OH, I know why. BE-CAUSE-I-WAS-IN-KATH-MAN-DU!
Bottom 9 list of visiting Kathmandu.
9) Getting hopelessly lost. Sticking your finger in your mouth and then holding it up to the wind seems to puzzle the locals.8) The squalor.
7) The dirt, garbage, open sewage, and all the stuff that comes with it when it’s 32C.
6) One thing that makes me feel safe is there must be a lot of doctors in this town. Every other person walks around with a surgical mask on.
5) This town has a SERIOUS water supply problem. I bet half don’t have running water.
4) The electricity is cut regularly. Many places have back-up generators but don’t get caught in a back alley @ 10pm. or watching the last five minutes of “Kathmandu- Who done it”
3) We have been here collectively for a little over three days. For two and half days there had been civil strike. No public transportation, some shops open, some closed. It only interfered slightly with our plans but there was always a feel of uncertainty.
2) I have always been mildly interested in the local politics of places we visit. Here I gave up. There seems to be a high level of politic strife here. Every ten blocks a corner is swarmed with dozens of heavily riot clad militia that make no attempt to hide their firepower. I sometimes stick my camera maybe where it shouldn’t be (that will be in my report from Thailand) but no pics of these boys. Don’t want my camera thrown in the air and used as skeet.
and
1) The city lives up to being the capital of one of the POOREST countries in the world.
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