What's New — fall
My Favorite Polar Feet Photo
Publicado por Lisa Falconer en
This is my favourite Polar Feet photo--and those of you have been following us for a while will recognize it. It was taken by my friend John Alexander--a very talented photographer and writer who was kind enough to share this photo and let me use it over and over again. It really showcases some key aspects of what Polar Feet is all about: vibrant colour, variety, and friendship. This is a group of people--maybe a family, maybe a group of friends--who you know must be laughing while they jostle into position. They are comfortable with each other and are participating...
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- Etiquetas: fall, holidays, thanksgiving, warm socks
Happy Halloween from Polar Feet
Publicado por Lisa Falconer en
As Halloween draws closer I've been reminiscing about Halloweens past while I look forward to seeing my niece and nephew head out to go trick-or-treating. Here in Vancouver, it seems to rain pretty much every year. It's perfect, really. The wind lashing the trees, leaves blowing here and there. It's dark early enough that the house lights glow invitingly. Lots of people go all out decorating with pumpkins, skeletons, and gravestones and the streets are busy with cute little monsters and fairy princesses. "Trick or treat! Trick or treat!" Growing up in Edmonton and then Calgary it was either pretty chilly out or...
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- Etiquetas: children's clothing, costume, fall, fleece, fleece slipper socks, fleece socks, fleece socks for kids, fleece socks for men, fleece socks for women, halloween, holidays, limeade, men's clothing, outdoors, polar feet, polar fleece socks, rainy weather, socks, warm socks, winter clothing, women's clothing, zigzag
Salmon Run
Publicado por Lisa Falconer en
Africa has the great Wildebeest migrations. The far North has the Caribou herds that make the ground tremble beneath their hooves. Here in BC we have salmon runs, one of which we were priveleged to witness this past weekend, at Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park on the Adams River. Every year sockeye salmon return, sometimes in the millions, to spawn and die in the rivers and creeks they left years before. As they travel upriver, they undergo a remarkable transformation: they stop eating and their scales are reabsorbed into their bodies, they turn bright red except for their tails and head that...
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- Etiquetas: fall, nature, outdoors, salmon run