works of wanderlust

Tag: backyard adventures

  • Backyard: Start Line

    Sunday Runday and my usual social weekend run date has turned into a solo expedition from my backyard. But training calls, and has little respect for blips in the calendar like global pandemics and provincial lockdowns and excuses about being stuck in one’s own backyard. Knowing a convincing distance run (by which I really mean

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  • Backyard: Saturday (or, a list of rejected backyard blog topics)

    After nearly a week of deeper restrictions that have left me (and most law-abiding residents of the city) without many places to go, I’ve turned that into an opportunity to enjoy my own backyard. Think of it less like a lockdown, and more like permission to do nothing but enjoy my own grass, trees, garden,

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  • Backyard: Fire

    It’s been about a month since I settled on my backyard firepit solution but I haven’t said much about the pit itself save for posting a few photos of the results of my outdoor cooking efforts. My upgrade from a simple steel fire bowl was an effort to find a backyard firepit that answered a

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  • Backyard: Clean-Up

    It’s always striking to me that we live in a deeply seasonal place. I’m sure that other parts of the planet go through their own share of seasonal variation, but living in one of the more northern capital cities on the Earth also makes places us in a group where vast differences exist between the

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  • Backyard: Travel by Flower

    It’s Travel Tuesday, and even tho I cannot go anywhere I have been plunging plugs of soil from the yard as I deal with some visitors from Europe who have overstayed their welcome. Dandelions: the two most commonplace species worldwide, T. officinale (the common dandelion) and T. erythrospermum (the red-seeded dandelion), were introduced into North

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