The wonderful food web of our local ecology…. But I’m hoping the chokeberry regrows form the little stubs left behind

They have eaten my almost everything. I try to remind myself that I am gardening to support biodiversity… but really, my baby chokeberry?

11 speeding charges in 3 hours laid in Cambridge The Waterloo Regional Police Service conducted a traffic enforcement initiative on Hespeler Road and laid 11 speeding charges.

Hmm, if only there was some way to catch people who speed without relying solely on expensive police forces to do that work. #ASE kitchener.citynews.ca/2026/04/14/1...

Poster with photo of monarch butterfly on a swamp milkweed, advertising a sale of plants native to Hamilton Ontario on June 6

Looking forward to the sale of plants native to the ecoregion around Hamilton and Burlington Ontario on June 6 at the Dundurn Pavilion, 610 York BlvdMark your calendar! More info: haltonmastergardeners.com/events/plant...
#HamOnt
#Gardening
#Nativeplants

As a retired senior, I don’t want a hi-vis arm band for my walks around #HamOnt - I want a radar gun linked to traffic enforcement. Have considered carrying an air dryer to point at the scofflaw speeders….

Transport Canada wants your opinion on headlight glare If you've got thoughts on – or possible solutions to – issues regarding headlight brightness in Canada today, the feds want to hear it

driving.ca/auto-news/dr...

#canpoli

Ginger Valley Trail Walk 🚶

Join Peter Langballe for a walk to catch a glimpse of #spring arriving, as well as the successes and challenges of the work to restore nature in a peri-urban environment.

📅 Sun April 12, 2026 | 1 - 3 PM
📍 85 Oak Knoll Dr #HamOnt
🚗 Street parking or paid RBG parking

HOW HAMILTON SAVED LIVES ON MAIN STREET! YouTube video by PinkyThumb

Love this video about how #HamOnt eliminated deaths on Main St by spending next to nothing and how the plans to convert to two-way, is likely to be an election issue.
Vote wisely!

Humber River, Early Spring
J.E.H. MacDonald
1911

A cluster of tiny Iris reticulata, both purple and pale yellow, surrounded by last autumn’s old leaves

Spring is here 💚

Transport Canada survey on vehicle headlights and glare at night
tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

Media & police commonly report that “speed wasn’t a factor in a crash.” What they mean is the driver wasn’t technically breaking the speed limit, or at least not too much.

But speed is ALWAYS a factor, in how much distance is needed to stop, how well crash victims can be seen, and whether they die.

Ford gov’t has an amazing ability to unerringly do the wrong thing. Every time.

I could never remember how to change the clock in my car - so it was correct only half the year.

The aroma of a used bookstore ♥️ a tantalizing blend of old paper with a soupçon of mildew. Treasure lies within!

Gloves are nothing- my son arrived home wearing only one shoe. Age 8. “Where is your other shoe?” He looks down, surprised. “Oh. Dunno”

a lion on grass with a person saluting in camo gear Toronto Zoo removes costly fences for lion enclosure, opts to hand out camouflage clothing to patrons - inspired by city cycling infrastructure. Be Safe Be Unseen is their new slogan.

Toronto Zoo removes costly fences for lion enclosure, opts to hand out camouflage clothing to patrons - inspired by city cycling infrastructure. Be Safe Be Unseen is their new slogan.

a heart shaped mirror with the word oatmeal on the inside Alt: a heart shaped mirror with the word oatmeal on the inside

Lentils! How can something so good for you also make such delicious dishes? It almost never works that way. Well, maybe oatmeal is another…

Wide protected bike-lane filled with people riding bikes in central Paris. #UrbanBiking #UrbanTruth

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/paris-proves...

A man sitting in a bistro with exposed brick walls and great light fixtures

Enjoying lunch at The Grand, a just opened restaurant with a hotel theme in #HamOnt

City of Hamilton, including the Hamilton Brick Works, seen from a snowy wooded trail

A snowy path along a wooded escarpment

I ♥️ my city after a snowfall. #HamOnt #BruceTrail #NiagaraEscarpment

👋 Hey Hamilton! Join me March 3 at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social for Run Like A Girl: An International Women’s Day Conversation!

🕐 1:00–2:30 p.m. ET
📍 McMaster University, L.R. Wilson Concert Hall
🎟 Register: obgyn.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/events/run-l...

#RunLikeAGirl🏃🏼‍♀️ #IWD20

Village on the Gulf
Albert H. Robinson
c. 1947

Blue Water, St. Lawrence River
Henrietta Mabel May
1940

End of Birch Avenue
Albert Franck
1962

I had a summer job in a library 50+ years ago. The browsing feast!

Sad news…Catherine O’Hara was marvellous

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking.

I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/

It’s my grandchildren. What will the future be like for them? What will their world be? That is the focus of my distress and any of my activism such as it is.