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Isobel Cunningham has published short fiction and poetry. Her book, Northern Compass is available on Amazon. She was born in Wales but Montreal is her adopted home. She speaks French, Modern Greek ( it’s a fun story) and a little Spanish…oh, English too, of course. She welcomes comments on her blog and looks forward to chatting with you over cyber-space.

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  • Green Lane, White Lane

    Behind the modest houses rows of duplexes, stairs curving like ringlets, run the narrow rectangles of freedom. City back yards, paved over, little hot tubs, corner lady’s flower jungle. apple tree and lilac herald behind the chain link fences. Lanes bisect the lots High board fences, gates, ramshackle garages, trees the power-guy “pruned”, speed bumps.…

  • A Tree in the House

    This summer and fall I spent a lot of time with wild trees, trees that were in charge of things.  I helped dig them up and replant them.  I watered saplings with hope and wishes ….and water.  Every morning I walked around the quiet property and looked them over with my kind host.  He had…

  • Just one

    For one, it was soon enough.    

  • Free Kindle Version of Green Anthology 12/5-12/9/16 – Happy Holidays!

    To celebrate the holiday season, we’re offering a free Kindle version of the Silver Birch Press Green Anthology – available Monday, 12/5 through Friday, 12/9/16 at Amazon.com. (If you don’t have a … Source: Free Kindle Version of Green Anthology 12/5-12/9/16 – Happy Holidays! Love this press that has published some of my stuff.  Take advantage of their generous gift and get…

  • Trees, country and city

    In the country trees live their lives unmolested by humans.  They sprout up, mature, die and rot to feed the next generation.  Farmers or other country residents try to ” manage” things a little but it’s a futile struggle and the best they can hope for is a peaceful sharing of land, air, rain and energy.…

  • How to get rid of a Trump —err, I mean a stump!

    OK I admit it.  I like to get hits on my blog.  Seriously, if you live in the country, sooner or later a big old tree on your property is going to die.  It will rot and pose a threat to power lines, your car parked in the driveway or various life forms passing by.…

  • A Viewpoint

    As a Canadian I have always had great respect and admiration for our neighbour to the south.  The United States of America is in some ways an unfathomable mystery.  Founded on noble principles, it’s history is a long struggle of good against evil.  It is framed by hope, persistance, grandeur and respect.  What often struck…

  • A challenge

    It started innocently enough.  The little blue cover looked like a perfect replacement for my iPad cover.  The old cover had started out with a cool ” distressed” Union Jack vibe and over the course of a couple of years descended into sloppy rag status.  While no one knows better than I that such an…

  • The yin and yang of autumn leaves

    So beautiful!  The crown of the year…don’t you think if some sort of future climate change meant that we stopped having autumn colours it would be a great sadness.  The whole character of the country would change, I believe.  For me there’s a hypnotic mood in looking at the leaves and trying to name the…

  • Snow geese

          It is a long way from Montreal to Cap Tourmente past Quebec City but I never begrudge  the drive.  Snow geese come here in the spring and particularly in the fall.  I don’t remember when or with whom I started coming but the sight of thousands of geese taking a stop on…