wild play This March Celebrate Wild Play! Wild Play!  My favourite passion both as a photographer and mama, nanny, and outdoor educator.  It’s wonderful out there these days during this magical overlap between Winter and Spring, West Coast Style, and I’ve been feeling really grateful for the wonderful green spaces in Vancouver and my Embodied~Play friends. I shared an important blog post from 1000 Hours…

forage photography I wandered down from my home near the ravine to Trout Lake, criss-crossing through fields, alleys, bike-paths, the signs of Fall becoming. I was on my way to a Photo Shoot, but the journey between two points is so often my favorite place, as I so love to wander, and see what gifts I encounter.   Here is wonderful Copley Community Orchard,…

Forage wild food, play, belonging, bounty, sensuality…. Where do they intersect?   What connects us to each other and to place deeply?  What is inner tracking?  How are these questions related to how we learn, raise children, honour each others and our own purpose and gifts?  

Forage: The Rose and the Hip What is Forage? A kind of inner tracking, a wild wander, observing how the gifts in the wild or garden reflect the gifts within. I realize now, that the idea for the name of both my photography business and my educational business comes from a  kind of ‘forage’ experience.   In what ways does a ‘fruit’ or example…

forage At first I wanted to call this ‘food porn’, but then I had to pause, why ‘porn’?  What is it about my / our relationship to sensuality that causes me / us to debase this incredible fruit of the sea?  Why not honour and celebrate this luscious, miraculous, delicate and delicious gift from our Mother Earth, or Mother Sea instead?  And so here she is, hand-picked…