Andrea McDowell

It's cold, not dead

I should preface the photo posts by emphasizing that I’m putting up what I find interesting, not what necessarily would win any photography contests. This creek runs through a small ravine behind several detached homes, and is part of the Don River watershed. The greenspace it runs through isn’t part of the park or trailContinue reading “It's cold, not dead”

Who

(The first couple of posts will constitute the inevitable throat-clearing while I get a few things out of the way, such as: who am I, what am I talking about, and why should you read me?) When I was a child, I spent weeks at my grandparents’ cottage, near Apsley, Ontario. It was a shack.Continue reading “Who”

First Snowfall

I snapped this about a week ago, in a mini-greenspace during our first substantial snowfall. After the snowstorms this week, no ground is visible anymore. <a href=”http://technorati.com/claim/h6k6nqjvpj” rel=”me”>Technorati Profile</a>

Why

I’m not worried about Nature. Nature is tough. Give her the slimmest of cracks in the concrete and something will come through. Many people see this as carte blanche to treat Nature any way they like. But just because she can recover from a massive assault is no reason to massively assault her, any moreContinue reading “Why”