I picked up this wall-hanger thing for sixteen bucks and used it to display about 75% of my collection of buttons and pins dating from the 1...

Midway through one of my political science courses at the University of Alberta, my professor pulled me aside for a chat after class.  ...

Over 21 years ago, I started working at Hole's Publishing in St. Albert. Here's my desk and Apple computer; I think it was a IIc ...

At least, I think these are alliums. Shot at Hole's, St. Albert, Alberta, 1998. 

Long ago - sometime between 1998 and 2005 - I shot this photo of Mom beside a tripod. You'd think that I would have shot Mom from the...

I shot this just after I started working for the publishing department of Hole's in St. Albert, back in 1998. Bruce encouraged me to ...

Back in 1998, I obtained permission to shoot some photographs from the top of Fort Garry House on Saskatchewan Drive. Bruce and Akemi...

Here I am sometime in the late 90s working on one of the first iMacs; this one was aqua-coloured. Presumably I was ghostwriting one garde...

For a very brief time that lasted, perhaps, from sometime in 1997 to sometime in 1998, I lived in Fort Garry House, up where Calgary Trai...

This was my office at Hole's Publishing, just after its completion. I joked with a contractor that the door plate would have been fun...

From the spring of 1998 to the fall of 2005, I wrote gardening books and articles for Hole's Publishing in St. Albert. Most of that w...

I've been trying to get some exercise this week by taking long walks at lunch, but it appears to have backfired on me as I now can'...

I was nearly finished Tarzan and the Golden Lion this morning when I noticed something caught between the pages of the decades-old book....

Nine years ago this month, Sylvia and I attended a Christmas party held for staff of then Lieutenant Governor Lois Hole. It was at this pa...

Leaf Rapids had (and possibly still has) a helipad. As a boy I was fascinated by this blank expanse of concrete, a small island of man in ...

Sometimes the writing process requires a little lubricant. On those occasions when I've been staring at a blank screen for too long,...

For three or four years after I purchased my little Pentax point and shoot, I was enthralled by the camera's panorama feature, which all...

Earl waters some harmless flowers at Hole's Greenhouses in 2000. Photo by Akemi Matsubuchi. Many years ago, I sold this article to ...

Once in a while I borrow Mom and Dad's old Canon T70 and load it with black and white film. Back in August 2002 I photographed the show ...

I've been very lucky to have had some excellent supervisors who I also consider friends: Leslie Vermeer, Bruce Keith, the Hole family, a...