SnowMergency – Evening Aftermath of the January 25th Winter Storm in Toronto

woman and cars covered by snow, residential street, Toronto winter storm january 2026 east york night aftermath

Not every adven­ture requires travel—some come to you. Yes­ter­day, while I was writ­ing my pre­vi­ous entry about my first solo overnight camp­ing trip last August, the north­ern por­tion of what Amer­i­can media—specifically The Weath­er Channel—were call­ing Win­ter Storm Fern dumped between 40 and 60 cm of snow over Toron­to. Cana­di­an media don’t have the habit … Read more

Snapshot Showcase: September 2023 in Pictures

Sep­tem­ber 2023 was one of the warmest and most pleas­ant Sep­tem­bers I’ve expe­ri­enced in south­ern Ontario. Was it a fluke or a sign of cli­mate change? I’ll leave that debate to cli­mate sci­en­tists. It’s always hard say­ing farewell to our short Cana­di­an sum­mers. As some­one who spends more than half the year wear­ing a coat, … Read more

Photowalk in Toronto’s Portlands, Oct 2023

In Jan­u­ary of this year, I start­ed orga­niz­ing month­ly Toron­to pho­towalks as part of my expan­sion of Expo­sure Ther­a­py’s hands-on pho­tog­ra­phy edu­ca­tion pro­gram. The pho­towalk I host­ed last met in The Beach­es on the after­noon of Sep­tem­ber 30th — one week ago today! These pho­towalks have been rea­son­ably suc­cess­ful at attract­ing a mod­est crowd of … Read more