NOTE This event has been moved to MARCH 30 2024. If there is 3-5 inches of snow, we can go ahead on this new date. January’s date was amid the polar vortex and way too cold.
Elvis Presley was born on this day, January 8, 1935
Imagine this song with a rhythm and blues tune this season to make this January 13 dog sledding winter event amazing
(Verse 1) Well, the snow is falling, in Saskatoon town,
A winter wonderland, where magic’s all around.
Grab your mittens and your hats, bundle up real tight,
It’s a Frozen Trails and Wagging Tails night.
(Chorus) Oh, let’s go sledding, through the snowy trails,
With Battle River dogs, and Eagle Ridge tales.
In the winter city, where the magic never fails,
It’s a howlin’, growlin’, Elvis kind of winter’s tale.
(Verse 2) The dogs are barkin’, in the crisp, cold air,
Eagle Ridge and Battle River, a canine pair.
Mushers guide the way, through the glistening white,
It’s a dog sledding adventure, oh what a sight.
(Chorus) Oh, let’s go sledding, through the snowy trails,
With Battle River dogs, and Eagle Ridge tales.
In the winter city, where the magic never fails,
It’s a howlin’, growlin’, Elvis kind of winter’s tale. (Bridge) First Nation echoes, in the winter breeze, A connection to the past, through the snowy trees. Cozydog sled rides, for the family and more, In this winter wonderland, let your spirit soar.
(Verse 3) January 13, save the date on your mind,
At Richard St. Barbe Baker, adventure you’ll find.
Put on your goggles, feel the chilly wind,
In this Saskatoon winter, let the journey begin.
(Chorus) Oh, let’s go sledding, through the snowy trails,
With Battle River dogs, and Eagle Ridge tales.
In the winter city, where the magic never fails,
It’s a howlin’, growlin’, Elvis kind of winter’s tale.
(Outro) So, reserve your spot now, don’t you wait,
For this Frozen Trails event, it’s gonna be great.
Spread the word around, share the delight,
In Saskatoon’s winter city, where the magic’s just right.
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Flower morphology Longitudinal section showing achene formation and hypanthium in genus Rosa Courtesy RoRo cc1.2
The Trembling Aspen is also referred to as the Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx) Leafy branchlet, Female Ament or catkin, Young Male Ament or catkin, Fruit, Floral Bract.
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Today the New Year (a Dog Year) dawns credit Fanghong CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated
“I hope my paintings will always inspire people to become a part of nature rather than a force that manipulates and destroys it. I hope my work will be seen as an important voice in the environmental awakening of the last 50 years that is aiming to conserve and sustain our planet.”~Clyde Aspevig
Today is Wednesday April 15, and it is time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, and to bring awareness to Earth Month- the month of April. This year’s Earth Day 2020 theme is Climate Action.
Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada north of Cedar Villa Road, within city limits, in the furthest south west area of the city. 52° 06′ 106° 45′
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 – Afforestation Area – 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SW 23-36-6 – SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) – 355 Township Road 362-A
S ½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) – 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 “George Genereux” Afforestation Area – 133 Range Road 3063 Wikimapia Map: type in Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area
Google Maps South West Off Leash area location pin at parking lot Web page: https://stbarbebaker.wordpress.com Where is the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area? with map Where is the George Genereux Urban Regional Park (Afforestation Area)? with map
Please help protect / enhance /commemorate your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail / e-transfers)
“The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting. “~Gerald Brommer
“It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment. “~Carl Andre
Richard St. Barbe Baker OBE, Hon. LL.D. F.I.A.L., For.Dip.Cantab., ACF (9 October 1889 – 9 June 1982)
Parent and Child in Nature
A walk in nature. What could be better than this to celebrate your very incredible kid today?
After the public protocols around COVID-19 have been allayed, and society returns to normal, we will advise that would be a good time to have a walk in nature with your very incredible kid! In the meantime, stay well and healthy and follow protocols set by City of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Health and Health Canada in regards to the Coronavirus. Best wishes to you all.
Some people take time to write a letter to their children telling them how very special they are.
Other people may write a poem or a song about their kids.
Sometimes people take their child out for a special time. Perhaps your special time is a walk in the forest noticing together the squirrels, and the black-capped chickadees singing their spring songs.
Send in a comment or two about how you are going to celebrate Absolutely Incredible Kids Day!
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life….
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”
― Hermann Hesse
Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada north of Cedar Villa Road, within city limits, in the furthest south west area of the city. 52° 06′ 106° 45′
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 – Afforestation Area – 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SE 23-36-6 – SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) – 355 Township Road 362-A
S ½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) – 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 “George Genereux” Afforestation Area – 133 Range Road 3063 Wikimapia Map: type in Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area
Google Maps South West Off Leash area location pin at parking lot Web page: https://stbarbebaker.wordpress.com Where is the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area? with map Where is the George Genereux Urban Regional Park (Afforestation Area)? with map
Please help protect / enhance your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail / e-transfers )
Support the afforestation areas with your donation or membership ($20.00/year). Please donate by paypal using the e-mail friendsafforestation AT gmail.com, or by using e-transfers Please and thank you! Your donation and membership is greatly appreciated. Members e-mail your contact information to be kept up to date!
What was Richard St. Barbe Baker’s mission, that he imparted to the Watu Wa Miti, the very first forest scouts or forest guides? To protect the native forest, plant ten native trees each year, and take care of trees everywhere.
“We stand in awe and wonder at the beauty of a single tree. Tall and graceful it stands, yet robust and sinewy with spreading arms decked with foliage that changes through the seasons, hour by hour, moment by moment as shadows pass or sunshine dapples the leaves. How much more deeply are we moved as we begin to appreciate the combined operations of the assembly of trees we call a forest.”~Richard St. Barbe Baker
Songs enchant the breeze.
Songs enchant the breeze rhythm
Songs bring souls together
Witnessing the world was never easier.
Its the songs that make it easy.
~Satish Chandra
I often wonder what it would be like if we dared to love this life — the fragile and the vulnerable, the endangered, daring to be humble before the magnitude of our beginnings, daring to learn our species into a stubborn and pliant wonder, until reverence shines in all that we do
For the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area clean up, it is wonderful to welcome Ellen, and Laura, who are part of the Saskatoon Singing Circle, an affiliate of the Sacred Web Singers. They are taking the time to connect and bring together singers for an absolutely delightful singing circle to join the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area Clean Up on Saturday, July 9, 2016.
The Sacred Web Singers [SWS] are networks of Canadian singing circles in North America. The SWS mission is:
We are a circle of compassionate women,
renewing our spirits through singing beautiful and meaningful songs
about the earth, justice, and peace.
We are transformed through song and ritual, good company, good food, good fun
—then we share ourselves and our songs in our communities.
We connect with the larger web of women inspired by
Carolyn McDade, Norma Luccock, and others of song and action.~SourceFor instance, the singers will introduce two songs to start us out for the clean up; Drift Like A Breath adapted from the poetry by William Stafford. Words to the song are a part of Carolyn McDade’s New Music Widening Embrace, Music arising from the energies of the Earth.
The words to the Trees Chant by Lori Fithian and Eric Fithianis online at the Panbolla – Pambula Wetlands and Heritage Project Inc. ” Today the words of a song come to me as I sift through the soil at the foot of trees that are meant to support life for the animal species that we hope will return: O Standing Nation We sing to you We breathe with you We standby you.”
The song written by Carolyn McDade, O Beautiful Gaia [meaning earth], O Gaia calling us home has had two verses added by Saskatoon Women;
O Beautiful Gaia, O Gaia calling us home
O Beautiful Gaia, calling us on. [twice]
Poplar bending in wind storm, O Gaia Calling us Home
Trees reflected in water, Calling us on.
Smell of Pine Trees Consume me, O Gaia Calling Us Home
Leaves Rustling Beside Me, Calling us on.
Seeking new birds and flowers, O Gaia Calling us Home
Neighbour to Chappell Marshland, Calling us on.
As those who gather disperse to clean the forest, the singers will choose to join or continue singing Carolyn McDade and friends type songs
As those who gather disperse to clean the forest, the singers will choose to join or continue singing Carolyn McDade and friends type songs
“Carolyn’s recorded music dates back to the early 1970’s. Over the years she has organized 13 recording projects that grew out of her singing circles. Each project involved activist women and a growing body of gifted and accomplished professional musicians. Thousands of women have touched into these circles and projects. The depth of their living – profound and ordinary – stirs and sustains this music.” Caroyln McDade biography
In Prince Edward Island, the singing circle is named Gaia singers after the Earth, relates Laura who participated in the Nature City Festival Tour at Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area.
“I often wonder what it would be like if we dared to love this life — the fragile and the vulnerable, the endangered, daring to be humble before the magnitude of our beginnings, daring to learn our species into a stubborn and pliant wonder, until reverence shines in all that we do — until we live an economics of reverence — until it permeates education, development and health care, homes and relationship, arts and agriculture — a reverence for life, for planetary, social and personal wholeness. This is our purpose now. May we do it well, with thoroughness and love.” ~ from Through the Moons of Autumn by Carolyn McDade
Inspirational tree songs bring the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area volunteers courage and resolution, to cheer them, to fire them with new confidence when they grow dispirited, to strengthen their faith that THINGS CAN BE DONE.
“We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.”~J. Allen Boone.
Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada north of Cedar Villa Road, within city limits, in the furthest south west area of the city. 52° 06′ 106° 45′
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 – Afforestation Area – 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SE 23-36-6 – SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) – 355 Township Road 362-A
S ½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) – 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 “George Genereux” Afforestation Area – 133 Range Road 3063 Wikimapia Map: type in Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area
Google Maps South West Off Leash area location pin at parking lot Web page: https://stbarbebaker.wordpress.com Where is the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area? with map Where is the George Genereux Urban Regional Park (Afforestation Area)? with map
Please help protect / enhance your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail)
Support the afforestation areas with your donation or membership ($20.00/year). Please donate by paypal using the e-mail friendsafforestation AT gmail.com, or by using e-transfers Please and thank you! Your donation and membership is greatly appreciated. Members e-mail your contact information to be kept up to date!
What was Richard St. Barbe Baker’s mission, that he imparted to the Watu Wa Miti, the very first forest scouts or forest guides? To protect the native forest, plant ten native trees each year, and take care of trees everywhere.
“We stand in awe and wonder at the beauty of a single tree. Tall and graceful it stands, yet robust and sinewy with spreading arms decked with foliage that changes through the seasons, hour by hour, moment by moment as shadows pass or sunshine dapples the leaves. How much more deeply are we moved as we begin to appreciate the combined operations of the assembly of trees we call a forest.”~Richard St. Barbe Baker
“St. Barbe’s unique capacity to pass on his enthusiasm to others. . . Many foresters all over the world found their vocations as a result of hearing ‘The Man of the Trees’ speak. I certainly did, but his impact has been much wider than that. Through his global lecture tours, St. Barbe has made millions of people aware of the importance of trees and forests to our planet.” Allan Grainger
“The science of forestry arose from the recognition of a universal need. It embodies the spirit of service to mankind in attempting to provide a means of supplying forever a necessity of life and, in addition, ministering to man’s aesthetic tastes and recreational interests. Besides, the spiritual side of human nature needs the refreshing inspiration which comes from trees and woodlands. If a nation saves its trees, the trees will save the nation. And nations as well as tribes may be brought together in this great movement, based on the ideal of beautifying the world by the cultivation of one of God’s loveliest creatures – the tree.” ~ Richard St. Barbe Baker.
Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area. George Genereux Urban Regional Park. 