Grey Whale and Standing One – New Painting! Inspiration: For years, I’ve ridden my bike around Stanley Park in Vancouver, BC and passed by this beautiful ancient landmark recently renamed Slhx̱í7lsh (Squamish language) by the Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam and Squamish First Nations, meaning ‘Standing Person’ or ‘Standing One’. On this morning, to see a grey whale…
Had so much fun at the MC Hammer with Gentry Kozia and Bobby Brown concert. These dancers are incredible. The energy, the visuals and the force was amazing and inspiring! I’ve been listening to MC Hammer and Bobby Brown since I was a preteen and to hear it live just brought back all of those…
What an amazing moment! Im slowly learning some Hummingbird behaviours and patterns. 🙂 Sometimes a hummingbird will sit on a nearby branch ( I guess to make sure the coast is clear 😉 and then he’ll dart quickly to my hummingbird feeder. I’ve noticed sometimes if one is at the feeder, then some loud…
I found out about The Artists for Conservation Festival a few years ago. Some of the most amazing and inspiring art that I’ve ever seen has come from this yearly art event. These artists and the people involved in this are so seriously dedicated and passionate about saving animals and their habitats in which they…
After months of hoping and wondering when and if the hummingbirds would return to their feeder…they have…just in the last couple of weeks. Sometimes even numerous times a day. They even seem to have a favourite branch. 
I could watch these guys all day long.
I had a really good start to my 40th birthday year last Saturday climbing 6.5 hours up the East Lions Mountain and 4 back down. It was by far the most difficult thing I’ve done not only physically but trying to keep balance when muscles started to fatigue in spots where falling back or…
Recently I went to the Vancouver Aquarium. Although I would be the first person to free every single animal from captivity, I strongly believe that we won’t protect what we don’t understand. I find this true on a lot of things but the ocean in particular. When you consider how many people on this planet…
Video credit: © Copyright Jackie Bourne 2017. Song credit: LAX by Pink elephant
This is was my first time adding sound to a video. One day I’ll get back underwater in some tropical waters and film the real deal with sound but until then this is fun too.
This little guy landed right in front of me as I was walking along and begged me to take his photo.
