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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ba-boom! The votes are in the mail.

Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I only got to reading this today while I was having lunch in Vetrina Cafe on 124 Street. They and your column are both strong arguments for welcoming immigrants. #notothenine

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The patio basket tomato plant that Salisbury Greenhouses forced for spring has given up its last picking for the year. Home grown tomatoes will be on hiatus until late next month. However, if you like Roma-style cherry tomatoes, you cannot go wrong with the variety ‘Red Profusion’.

A bowl of cherry tomatoes and a bedraggled tomato plant.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Since we’ve decided to go car-light(er), and I’ve sold my car to my son in Vancouver, here is my now-trusty steed sitting beside Elaine’s car.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Intermission at Freewill Shakespeare. It’s not STO, but it’s certainly a good-sized crowd.

The stage and some audience heads from behind at tonight’s Freewill Shakespeare performance.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My Alberta is big enough to include Jasper National Park. The SmithParkerRathAlexandre (SPRA) Cabal wants a customs station here. I say “No”.

A view of the east gate to Jasper National Park through the windshield of an eastbound car.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My Alberta is big enough to include, without pretending to own, the trails and eagles of BC’s Gulf Islands. The SmithParkerRathAlexandre Cabal wants to put that in a foreign country. I say “NO”.

Beach along a nameless bay on DeCorcy Island, BC. The lower left corner is upland; it is bounded by a diagonal line of driftwood logs then sandy beach down to the water.

Arbutus branch between green background and the corner of a trail staircase.

Bald eagle partly hidden by leaves and with the forests of Vancouver Island behind it.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

My Alberta includes, without pretending to own, Queen Elizabeth Park in central Vancouver. The smiithparkerrathalexandre cabal wants to block it out. I say “NO”.

Entrance to the Bloedel Conservatory in Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park.

Siberian Iris in Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park.

The Lions’ Clock and a Kousa Dogwood tree across the summit plaza from the Bloedel Conservatory. Various unknown park visitors are present.

Figures in the lock sculpture “Love in the Rain”, located in the gardens of Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park. BYO padlock and true love to join the fun.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Setting out on my first Jane’s Walk of the year: What’s in Store for Downtown — the next 10 years.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Amsterdam has also done this in places. If I’d have known this thread was coming, I’d have taken a picture without the gigantic foreground.

A section of the Amsterdam tramway planted to grass with a huge paved sidewalk in the foreground.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

A bit of Boxing Day indulgence

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Out chatting with the neighbour over frozen snow shovels, and we agreed that even though it’s still autumn we are more than ready for spring.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

This was the longest car-miles-replacement errand to date: home to Bonton Bakery and return, about 13.3 km in all. And look at that perfect baguette rearing its handsome head above the pannier!

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Negative drainage and The Dawn of a New Hope

A mostly empty flower bed sloping toward the foundation of a house

Apple of topsoil partly loaded into a yellow wheelbarrow and the shovel that loaded it

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I started my car-miles-replacement program with a ride to the nearby Home Depot for replacement shopvac bags.

My new e-bike locked to the wheel barrow racks at my local hardware outlet.

A shopvac in a dirty garage waiting for a new dust bag.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Here is a fuller view of the Bill Reid rose, still a bright spot in a darkening world.

A rose shrub (var. Bill Reid) with Bergenia and lawn grass in the background.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

If you didn’t care for the Bill Reid rose (or even if you did), here is the ‘Emily Carr” which also offers a bright spot in a darkening world.

A red shrub rose (the ‘Emily Carr’) blooms against a background of leaves and dirt.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This is the ‘Bill Reid’ rose, and it is a beacon of delight even in times of trouble.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I received and deposited the latest and last of my carbon price rebate cheques today. So ends one of the most sensible of the Trudeau approaches to addressing climate change. Now the decks are cleared for the GoC to bend a knee to Premier Smith and her oiligarch backers. Sic transit gloria mundi.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Hey all you country girls and boys coming back from WWII. Move to Edmonton and we’ll build communities, schools, etc. so you can be The Greatest Generation and raise the Boomers.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Our oldest house — built in 1933 from a kit developed by Muttasrt Lumber. #JanesWalkEdmonton

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Although the world may be falling apart, the first crocuses have bloomed along the south side of my house.

Three crocus blossoms in a field of dead leaves.

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Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It’s a month late, but I’ve finally done the tourtiêres.

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