Tag Archives: Spring

Time For Spring!

  I’m writing this on the bus, having had to take off my gloves to do so. It is unseasonably cold, about ten degrees below seasonal norms. And that doesn’t include the wind chill, which yesterday was -20. Or the snow forecast for tomorrow. It doesn’t feel like Spring. We don’t talk about global warming […]

A Walk In The Woods

Sunday was a beautiful Spring day, so instead of going home right after church we went for a walk. Ottawa is blessed with an abundance of urban forest. I looked it up and though the numbers seemed a little fluid, it seems the city has about 40,000 hectares of forest and parkland. That number seemed […]

Rumours of Spring

It is still unseasonably cold, with temperatures running about ten degrees Celsius lower than the norms for this time of year. It may be April, but it doesn’t feel like Winter has quite decided to relax its grip upon us. But there are signs of hope. The creek in front of my house, which is […]