Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: outdoors

  • Moments of ahhhh

    I have been trying, since winter closed in around me, to find the beauty in this grayer season. But yesterday and today, I’m pulling up images of warmer more colorful places and times. Today’s pleasure — places I’ve kayaked (clockwise from top left): Cameron Lake, Waterton National Park, in September; Eklutna Lake, Alaska in June;…

  • Back to the gardens

    A three-week trip to Europe last year taught me to plan for travel fatigue It was pretty simple, really. Stepping out into lush park or garden surroundings works at home to both sooth and energize. And it turned out to be a good antidote for the exhaustion that goes hand in hand with managing an…

  • Look up

    Leaving the Lethbridge, Alberta nursing home after another intriguing day with my 99-year-old mother, I did a thing I try never to do: walk while staring at my phone. When I see others do this, I tsk-tsk to myself. Dangerous at worst –people crash into things this way or are crashed into by hurtling machines,…