Tag Archives: Reid Dickie
Tap Click World, Tap Click World
Reid Dickie WordPress, where this blog is hosted, has improved its statistical breakdowns of who visits their blogs. They now provide details on the number of hits country-by-country that my blog gets. I was pleased about the international scope of … Continue reading
Filed under Blog Life
Victoria, My Father and All of His Tobacco, They Loved You
Reid Dickie Today is Victoria Day in Canada, a national holiday celebrating the life of Queen Victoria and her huge contribution to Canada! Okay…ummm. To celebrate the occasion, in my heading I slightly reword Leonard Cohen for dramatic flare. Treason, you … Continue reading
Filed under Humour, Idiots, Momentous Day, Music
What Are These?
Reid Dickie Here and there across the Canadian countryside you’ll see these bright blue shelters placed in patterns in pastures. Their openings all face the same direction and their presence has a rather otherworldy feeling about it. What are these things? … Continue reading
Filed under Accommodations, Critters
Spruce Woods Park Rebounds, Open This Weekend
Reid Dickie In this post a year ago the flooding Assiniboine River had a destructive hold on Spruce Woods Park. Hwy #5 was washed away through the park, campgrounds and buildings were covered with eight feet of water and the … Continue reading
Filed under Birds, Day Tripping, Earth Phenomena, Flood, Natural Places, Sacred Places, spirit sands
Stephen Harper Birds
Reid Dickie In a previous post, I wrote about the Jerry Lewis Birds that inhabit my and my neighbour’s backyards. In fact, they are European starlings and come with an asinine genesis in North America. Having grown accustomed to the starling’s bizarre … Continue reading
Filed under Birds, Canada Strong and Free, Winnipeg
Fort la Reine Museum, Portage la Prairie
Reid Dickie Under an overcast sky, the mighty Avenger and I took a spin westward on the TCH to Portage la Prairie last Friday. A quick shop of PLP’s thrift shops, it has three, yielded just four classy 1950s glass tumblers … Continue reading
Snake Season, Narcisse, MB
Reposting because this annual event is occurring right now! Find other interesting Manitoba excursions on my Day Tripper page. Reid Dickie April 2002 It is one of those late April anomalies: 25 degrees C with a warm south wind, the … Continue reading
Filed under Day Tripping, Life and Life Only, Natural Places, PRAIRIES
The Changing Light – Subtle, Relentless, Pure
Afternoon turns into night. Time lapse photography from the porch of Yurt #4 at Spruce Woods Provincial Park. Click pic to watch my video
Filed under Film, Images, Linda, Parks, Sacred Places
Manitoba Heritage – All Saints Anglican Church, Stonewall area
Reid Dickie All Saints Victoria Anglican Church, Stonewall area One of the many distinguishing features of this little wooden church is that it was among the first Anglican churches in Manitoba built away from the river-oriented Red River Settlement. Constructed … Continue reading
Filed under Churches, Heritage Buildings, Manitoba Heritage, Pioneers
