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Pigeon Portraits: The Fine Art of Not Giving a Fluff - Oct 22, 2026
Life lessons from the most misunderstood feathered fashionistas in town. Pigeons have a serious public relations problem. Somewhere along the way, these colourful, intelligent, slightly ridiculous little birds got labelled as flying rats. Rude. Honestly, who hired their marketing team? Have you ever actually sat down and watched a pigeon? I mean REALLY watched one. Not just dodged one on the sidewalk while it strutted toward you like it owned the place. Because let me tell yo

Jennifer Dowd
Oct 224 min read


Channeling My Inner Heron
What do you do when your photography mojo has gone completely AWOL? When stress, grief, migraines, and neck pain have taken up permanent residence in your life, and your creative spark seems to have packed its bags and left without so much as a goodbye? Apparently, you start digging through old photographs. Not ancient photographs, mind you. Just the hundreds (okay, probably thousands) of images I've taken on my adventures and never gotten around to sharing. I've been hoping

Jennifer Dowd
Oct 194 min read


Birds? What Birds? A Day of Mushrooms, Stellar Jays and One Very Cooperative Flicker - Sept 19, 2026
Over the summer, my adventuring mojo seemed to disappear. I’m not entirely sure where it went. Normally, I’m quite happy to grab my camera, head somewhere new and spend hours wandering around looking for birds, wildlife, or whatever else happens to cross my path. But this summer, getting myself out the door somehow became harder than it should have been. So I decided it was time to stop waiting to feel adventurous again. I packed up my camera, loaded Finnegan into the car, an

Jennifer Dowd
Sep 264 min read
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