Blog
Can I Rest in Your Shade? A Reflection
What does it mean to be, and is it possible to be, a non-native entity and also a generous caretaker of the land where one finds oneself?
The Politics and History of Aerial Photos: Introducing Belle Park from the Air
One thing I enjoy about sharing aerial photographs with people is that it kind of blows their minds to see familiar places from above.
Belle Park Cattails 3: The Dragon Rises
Typhon is stirring and Typha will be ready when he wakes.
Belle Park Cattails 2: PSWs and Healing
My PSW, that is, the Greater Cataraqui Marsh PSW, has been playing the role of support worker in a healing process that has taken uncountable twists and turns.
Park Poems
A sampling of poems and photos just published in the journal Public, in a special issue on Making Worlds in the Pluriverse.
Belle Park Cattails 1: A Cluster of Cat-tales
For as long as I’ve loved wetlands, I’ve had a thing for cattails.
Seeing Belle Park on its own Terms: BioBlitz 2022
More than 60 people came together over the span of a week in May to celebrate the familiar and the new, the static and the changing, the mundane and the novel.
Belle Park BioBlitz
A bioblitz is on-the-ground citizen science. It is fun, flexible, and easy. No prior experience or naturalist knowledge is required, and all ages are welcome!
The Cooper, The Crow, and the Chickadee
In which our resident naturalist hearkens to the chickadees
Where Does Kingston’s Garbage Go? Part One
In which your intrepid team visits Moose Creek Landfill