Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: outdoors

  • Reading slow and deep

    I took Betsy James’ new memoir with me on a road trip to the Canadian Rockies and found it a fine antidote to hours of driving. The world rushing by at 70 mph, the shift from rolling canola fields to jagged upthrust peaks, the rumbling trains, the smoke from fires — my mind getting edgy…

  • Night visitors

    Stuff happens after dark. We see the evidence in the morning. Flowers chomped, bird bath tipped over, stuff like that. Last week we got a trail camera that snaps photos when it detects movement. Last night we got a two-fer, raccoon and the almost full moon. We don’t know what the li’l guy was up…

  • Always learning, even when I think I know

    Cameron Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada The air is still, so windless that the water itself hardly moves, reflecting sky and Rocky Mountains. Not so many people know about Cameron Lake, one of many tucked among the stunning peaks of Waterton Lakes National Park in western Alberta. The much better known Glacier National Park…