2 October 2025 – I’m over at St. George & East 6th, hunkered down for the view south along this stretch of the St. George Rainway. Then I pay serious attention to the map — to the lost small-c creek and to the lost big-c False Creek as well, lost when (1915 onward) they filled […]| WALKING WOMAN
26 September 2025 – Not for the first time. and especially not for the first time in fall, I stop at the W 41st & Oak Street entrance to the VanDusen Botanical Garden, and wriggle happily at the colour contrasts. Citrus yellows! Deep furry greens! Deep glossy greens! And, while I’m wriggling, how about the […]| WALKING WOMAN
19 September 2025 – You come back home with fresh eyes for your own city. I wake up yesterday and, just before 7 a.m., stare awe-struck at the grandeur of clouds drifting above and among the …| WALKING WOMAN
8 posts published by icelandpenny during September 2025| WALKING WOMAN
14 September – And then, from morning to afternoon, I leave Toronto and land in Vancouver. Here I am, looking through slight drizzle to the mountains, with one last love-letter I want to offer “T.O.” (Tee-Oh, Toronto.) My T.O., that is, nobody else’s — my own mix of memory and re-discovery, blind to what others […]| WALKING WOMAN
12 September 2025 – More old + new, here in Toronto. The joy of time with old friends and familiar places, but also the joy of discovery. For example, Biidaasige Park — some 40 hectares once complete, down at the mouth of the Don River and part of an even larger overall program to re-gentle, […]| WALKING WOMAN
7 September – Continuing my new, but very happy, Winnipeg tradition, I go walkabouts on departure morning. Once again, art comes my way as a result. I cross the Red River to neighbouring St-Boniface and, just as I’m completing a loop through the neighbourhood, I find myself pulled into a parkette. By this. It is […]| WALKING WOMAN
5 September – Now I’m doubling back across the same terrain, this time south, Churchill to Winnipeg. It will surprise none of you that even though we’re travelling the same tracks, passing/stopping in the same places, the trip is entirely different. There’s the same train culture around me, but with different people. Perhaps because I’m […]| WALKING WOMAN
Somewhere north of Gillam, the sun not yet visible, but the horizon glowing… and, an hour and a half later, the first glimpse of Churchill, its massive port structure. We arrive. We scatter, each to our own priorities. Mine will take me pretty directly from the train station (the dark oblong near the top of […]| WALKING WOMAN
2 September – The train doesn’t depart until 12:05 pm, so I have time for a morning walk on Winnipeg’s “Cool Streets”… before obediently turning up at Union Station by 11 am. I just see people. I don’t yet know, for example, that the Calgary couple in the cluster on the left are delighted to […]| WALKING WOMAN
1 September – I’ll be one day and a bit, in Winnipeg. On the land, and on the water too. The theme of land and rivers, the two great pathways of our country, keeps gaining strength. Not because I intellectually seek it out. Because it is imposing itself on me. A tear-off map at my […]| WALKING WOMAN
29-31 August 2025 – You’ve had the tease, and my friend Larry correctly guessed: I was about to start an epic VIA Rail adventure. Another friend Blane plaintively asked, “Why not …| WALKING WOMAN
10 August 2025 – Seven moments, over the past few days, that snagged my attention. If these images snag you as well, I’m glad, and thank you. But here’s the rabbit hole: what now …| WALKING WOMAN
21 July 2025 – Busy morning, the day is clipping along, but surely there’s time for a short afternoon walk? I think False Creek (yet again), and then try to freshen the idea with a new …| WALKING WOMAN
18 July 2025 – God or devil? This aphorism, it turns out, has various protagonists, and even more attributed sources, in multiple languages. “God is in the details,” for example, …| WALKING WOMAN
5 July 2025 – Not a theme even remotely in mind yesterday, when all this began. But then came today. Yesterday I am increasingly grumpy as I stomp down some farther-south blocks of Quebec Str…| WALKING WOMAN
5 July 2025 – Not a theme even remotely in mind yesterday, when all this began. But then came today.| WALKING WOMAN
14 February 2025 – Not viciously frozen-frozen — not like most of the rest of Canada, right now — just the benign Vancouver version of frozen. Just cold enough, and cold enough lo…| WALKING WOMAN
4 July 2024 – I am again approaching False Creek. Again. Yet again. For the umpty-third time. Even so, I expect not to be bored. I am reassured by the wisdom of Heraclitus and, some 700 or so…| WALKING WOMAN