Category: nature & landmarks

• overnight in the townships

  

  After doing some exploring this past year in the Eastern Townships (or Les Cantons de l’Est, en français) just outside of Montréal, I feel equipped to share a few favourites thus far. I’ll begin with the most recent trek, an overnight visit last weekend with my daughters. The photo above is from the wrap-around balcony…

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  Johanne Provençal

  27 Jul 2024

  food & drink, nature & landmarks, travel

  Cantons de l’Est, Eastern Townships

• postcards from Portland

  

  I was in Portland, Oregon for a few days recently and although I didn’t send any postcards, I did notice a postcard flyer for the Booklover’s Burlesque Festival (I would have gone to that, if I had been there when it was on, but no such luck, drat). So, on the theme of postcards, if…

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  Johanne Provençal

  20 Apr 2024

  all, arts, culture, music, events & festivals, nature & landmarks, neighbourhoods, travel

  Alberta Arts District, Booklovers Burlesque Festival, Porltand, Portland Japanese Garden

• the path of totality (factoids, flashback and Rome)

  

  A rather dramatic name for something measured by scientific instruments, “the path of totality” refers to the path of the Moon’s shadow where the totality — the “maximum phase of a total solar eclipse, during which the Moon’s disk completely covers the Sun’s bright face” — can be visible from Earth (definition from the American…

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  Johanne Provençal

  6 Apr 2024

  all, nature & landmarks, research and academics

  solar eclipse