tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63604271965223651442024-03-13T07:31:32.350-06:00An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous TravelGetting around the world when it's often difficult getting around the house.Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.comBlogger2076125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-48000708221450301432018-08-10T10:02:00.000-06:002018-08-10T10:02:03.500-06:00Still fighting it...(from my archives)
So, where was I with my last blog post on travel?
Oh, yes... relinquished my lifestyle, left the wet west coast for the dry interior of British Columbia, and some years later settled into domesticity here on the prairie "where the deer and the antelope play"!
I could book a flight, or get my husband to drive me out to BC now and then to check on my family, so it was enough.
Dick Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-35282957453664548532018-07-07T08:49:00.005-06:002018-07-07T13:17:50.366-06:00Blue Sky Over the RockiesI seem to have entered the same photos twice, here and the one next to it. My apologies. My eyes are giving me trouble right now, so I'm a little confused.
Richard Schear photos
Richard Schear photos, above and right
Revelstoke, British Columbia
June, 2018
Revelstoke, BC, high in Canada's Rocky Mountains, has its full share of bridges, as my husband Richard Schear discovered when Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-16158619360224440762018-06-28T15:11:00.000-06:002018-07-02T19:07:14.730-06:00If you missed this, here it is again
Wishing my friends in the US
a very happy Fourth of July!
(Posted also last week on Skywatch Friday)
Note: I am quoting below, without permission, from Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, back issues of which, I understand, will be available online in the near future. Meanwhile, I thought this bit of fun was a lot of fun.
Grammarians take note!
"We (at Grammarly) gently poke fun at the messes Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-37305402359780157092018-06-25T15:35:00.000-06:002018-06-27T08:48:24.220-06:00Trek across Alberta to B.C. coastNot a trek, not really, at least not on foot, but this month we did drive from southeastern Alberta to southwestern British Columbia with visits to Revelstoke, Kamloops, Ashcroft, Hope, Aldergrove, Coquitlam, Langley, South Surrey, White Rock, Crescent Beach, Kelowna, and Golden, BC.
It was quite a lot of driving for my husband, who didn't complain about not knowing know my friends and Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-77174728266079507082018-06-21T14:38:00.000-06:002018-06-26T09:46:55.697-06:00The greenest green I've ever seen
Crescent Beach was "my beach" when I was a child visiting my grandparents.
I loved to see the ocean, and the mountains above the city of Vancouver in the distance
Sometimes British Columbia, Canada, where I was born, surprises me.
I was born on "The Wet West Coast" but grew up in the near-desert dry of BC's Okanagan Valley. When I finished high school, however, my father moved us all, lockKay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-47887414169586793012018-06-15T08:11:00.001-06:002018-06-15T13:53:54.365-06:00Down by the river sideCoulee — Wikipedia says "a deep ravine" and I add "carved by a river, over a long time."
South Saskatchewan River, right, beneath coulee walls.
For Skywatch Friday, June 15, 2018
Coulee with one deer (see? centre, near bottom)
Coulee with three deer
Richard Schear photos
Posting for Fiona's meme Skywatch Friday
Meanwhile...I know I have posted, more than once, that anonymous Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-87655444724333360112018-06-05T10:22:00.002-06:002018-06-05T15:08:51.836-06:00Antelope disappearing? Oh, deer!Numbers of Alberta deer species are disappearing, as well as pronghorn antelope, which might not have disappeared—apparently they might just have changed location. We loved seeing them, and we miss them.
We have deer, however, and in the winter they come to eat from our ornamental crabapple tree. They're so beautiful to watch!
Female White Tail Deer
White Tail Deer Fawn
Male White TailKay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-64701900337469926072018-06-01T08:52:00.001-06:002018-06-02T07:52:28.352-06:00Watching skies at home
At this time every year I always post photos of the beautiful skies of southeastern Alberta, where I live with my husband Richard and our funny little terrier-mix Bonnie-Belinda.
The photos seldom change from year to year, of course, because there isn't much new out there, but the sky does change, and I always love the view we have when standing on the deck, looking down Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-33609919474995229372018-05-28T14:03:00.000-06:002018-05-30T10:04:31.751-06:00Spring is sprung, the grass is rizTime for Auntie Kay's annual photos of her perennials. Bear with me, folks, I'm at it again.
A new twist for 2018: Auntie Kay doesn't remember the names of all her trees.
No, not names like 'Mary' or 'Jim' or even 'Myrtle' — just doesn't know the genus, the species, specifics, or special features.
"Sigh," as Auntie Kay is wont to say.
It's been a great month weatherwise, not so great Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-42405324128315144472018-05-25T11:55:00.000-06:002018-05-25T11:59:11.116-06:00The beginning of the end
Before the 21st century had time to grow old, the planet Earth turned cold. At the same time, volcanic eruptions and ferocious, swirling storms tripled and quadrupled in frequency.
The moon, half covered with the detritus of Man's overwhelming population, could no longer be fully seen from Earth.
Most of the world's population starved, as oceans filled with plastic and could no longer Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-33286590121181649512018-05-21T18:32:00.002-06:002018-05-22T10:01:27.285-06:00Aussies co-authoring garbage
My old friend Professor Robin Jeffrey and his friend, anthropologist Dr. Assa Doron, have written a new book called Waste of a Nation published by Harvard University Press.
The book is about garbage and India, or India and garbage, whichever you prefer, but does not send the same message as do articles or books about pollution that have been published elsewhere in the Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-39480529179216724022018-05-18T12:47:00.001-06:002018-05-18T12:47:14.117-06:00Random sky shots north and south
Attack of the frigate bird, Galapagos Islands. (No one was hurt in the making of this blog post.)
South (above)
...and North (below)
Dick riding an Icelandic horse...in, of course, Iceland!
I didn't ride a horse, but I hugged (yes, hugged!) many of them.
Icelandic horses love cuddling.
And then south again...
Dick and our sister-in-law Maria in Cancun, Mexico.
Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-63340802695373793572018-05-14T12:48:00.000-06:002018-05-14T13:16:46.348-06:00Canada yesterday, today and tomorrow?
The endangered white Kermode Bear, Wikipedia photo
Great Bear Rainforest,
British Columbia, Canada
https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/animal-facts-kermode-bear
Haida houses and totems, Skidegate, British Columbia
(pronounced approximately 'skid-uh-git' —emphasis on 'skid')
1878 photo courtesy of Wikipedia
Above: Haida Gwaii, formerly 'Queen Charlotte Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-54658889460971762552018-05-10T18:07:00.000-06:002018-05-11T12:23:11.776-06:00The crooked Skywatcher
It takes a special kind of Skywatcher to shoot consistently crooked sky photos, and I am that special Skywatcher! Notice, please, that they don't all lean at the same angle, although most do have a left-leaning tendency. (This is not a political comment, however, but do feel welcome to take it as such if you choose.)
NO ANONYMOUS COMMENTS, PLEASE
Posting my leaning treasures
Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-46319062345336077732018-05-08T08:38:00.000-06:002018-05-10T12:39:36.748-06:00"When worlds collide"
Kay Davies photo, 2016
There is a fringe where your world and mine meet, merge, meld for a month or more. Differences disappear and the common ground seems solid.
We walk on this illusory rock confidently, comfortably, tempted to take this temporary thing as truth.
The rock is a lie.
Kay Davies photo
2018
It consists of one thin layer of your reality and one thin layer of mine, Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-31191752783948245122018-05-03T15:37:00.002-06:002018-05-03T17:54:03.587-06:00Tyrannousaurid redux, many links
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Blue sky over the "Hoodoos" ... the hills of Alberta's signature badlands
I posted about the subject Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-15197688637065600212018-04-30T12:47:00.002-06:002018-04-30T12:47:40.439-06:00Cockles & mussels, alive? alive? Oh.
'Mussels on drugs' found near Victoria sewage outfalls
Study finds concentrations of pharmaceuticals and
personal care products in
molluscs exposed to wastewater
(CBC News Feb. 15, 2018)
"Drug tests on sea life near the sewage outflow pipes around Victoria (British Columbia's capital) are giving new meaning to the old expression "happy as a clam"!
"Monitoring by the Capital Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-84653209416956967392018-04-26T14:56:00.000-06:002018-04-27T09:08:07.978-06:00Are fish farms trampling BC's seas?
If you think the crude oil pipeline across British Columbia's beautiful wilderness is the only environmental issue about which I am passionate — well, it is NOT.
Mom loved river fishing, too
I still care about many other things,
especially the many other things
threatening CANADA'S WEST COAST!
Yes, Canada's West Coast!
This isn't just British Columbia's coast:
IT IS MYKay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-81645758403197165642018-04-26T09:03:00.000-06:002018-04-26T09:03:49.361-06:00Assorted skies for SkywatchOFFERING A FEW SKY SHOTS (two with double meanings)
for Fiona's beautiful meme
Skywatch Friday
WE GET AROUND...or at least we used to!
Not so much now, so these are from earlier travels.
HAWAII
SAN DIEGO
At home: hoar frost against deep blue winter sky. In summer, cirrus clouds stripe a pale blue sky.
Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-12720033551722436012018-04-23T17:39:00.002-06:002018-04-24T07:13:15.060-06:00If it takes a rant or two a day
Note:
I have held back for some time before publishing this column for Our World Tuesday, even hoping that the live-and-let-live side of me might prevail but, no, the indignant, opinionated, never-say-die part of my brain continues to believe the rant I've written here. I'm doing my best to reign in my anger and disappointment, but I admit I may not have succeeded.
Alberta's Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-47597682576669513832018-04-19T16:57:00.002-06:002018-04-19T16:59:56.630-06:00Destroying the ancients
The Cheewhat Giant, a western red cedar in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, several hours north of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island, is 56 metres (183.7 feet) high, and 18.8 metres (61.7 feet) in circumference. It is the largest tree in Canada.
I am too old to tie myself to a tree in order to protect it from loggers, as do so many good people who believe in Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-90880374406480443312018-04-17T09:08:00.000-06:002018-04-17T09:13:25.366-06:00Will they shut down Venice?
Photos Kay Davies and Richard Schear
Young Venetians
who love the canals
Richard and I have been to Venice more than once, and I can't honestly say there are no unattractive parts, but it's a large city, so I acknowledge that there might be some less-than-perfect places!
However, there are so many lovely spots, as in the photo above, and so many quintessential Venetian scenes (see the canalKay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-57626125436313644882018-04-12T12:03:00.003-06:002018-04-12T15:43:34.069-06:00Grey, green, blue, sky and sea: MontenegroMontenegro, meaning "Black Mountain" is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the southwest and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east, and Albania to the southeast. (Wikipedia)
After visiting friends in Scotland and England a couple of years ago, I joined my husband, Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-78866640759658858922018-04-09T12:58:00.004-06:002018-04-09T16:53:39.570-06:00O Canada, how we mourn for thee
More than one generation
of my family played hockey
Life,
and death,
on the ice
The game of ice hockey has long been Canada's favourite sport, although not our national game. Therefore, it is no wonder that our country is now deep in mourning following a terrible bus/truck crash on a lonely stretch of Saskatchewan highway.
When I was young, no one in our small hockey-playing town even Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360427196522365144.post-48783033757620429222018-04-05T15:08:00.000-06:002018-04-05T15:08:04.890-06:00Beautiful Barcelona, Antoni Gaudi, and me
Grey skies never deter devoted visitors to Spain...
I have always loved Barcelona.
It seems to me that work never stops on La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain.
Cranes and scaffolding can be seen behind the greenery behind and on either side.
Famed Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece cathedral,
on which he worked for 43 years, is still under construction,
but is expected&Kay L. Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.com29