If you are hiking in the deep woods and want to avoid a grisly bear encounter, the advice is clear: make lots of noise to let them know you’re coming. Avoid areas with fresh bear tracks and droppings. Keep your pets at your side and leave the bacon and fish fries

Happy Canada Day Weekend! In celebration of our True North strong and free, here are some beautiful photos of Canada from photographers across the world. ~ Andre Boysen. Fisgard Lighthouse. Victoria . TJ Holowaychuk. Whistler ~ Franz Harvin Aceituna. Vancouver ~ Dawson Lovell. Toronto ~ Laura Lefurgey Smith. St John’s

i. I am a: dancer and choreographer ii. The name of my upcoming show is: Transverse Orientation. iii. In describing the show in 3 sentences or less, I’d say: Transverse Orientation unfolds in the space between two allegories taken from the Moth: the idea of radical transformation as moths undergo metamorphosis,

“That’s always been my principal concern, to make sure of getting regular sittings.” So said 19th Century painter and portraitist, Édouard Manet, to his friend, Antonin Proust. “Whenever I start something, I’m always afraid the model will let me down… They come, they pose, then away they go, telling themselves