Category: nature & landmarks

• almost sprung

  

  Okay, we’re in the home stretch of winter here in Montréal (as elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere). Yes, yes, the vernal equinox approaches — on March 20th at 5:01 in the morning, spring will officially have sprung. I’m ready for it. Not to say that I don’t appreciate winter. There is lots to love about…

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  Johanne Provençal

  15 Mar 2025

  everyday life, nature & landmarks

  seasons, spring

• love ten times

  

  This fourteenth day of February, in the year two thousand and twenty-five, I am calling on us all to speak love ten times. I’ll start us off … One: to those who bring their truly lovely selves to the days, nights, work, play, city, nation and planet that is the stuff of every day life,…

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  Johanne Provençal

  14 Feb 2025

  arts, culture, music, everyday life, food & drink, nature & landmarks, research and academics

  love, Valentine’s Day

• the tree outside your window

  

  It may have started with a weeping willow. I used to pass one on the way home from school in grade three, I think it was. I had started at a new school and before I knew anyone in the neighbourhood, I knew that tree. I would sit under it, leaning against its wide trunk,…

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  Johanne Provençal

  8 Sep 2024

  all, nature & landmarks, research and academics

  forests, trees, urban forestry