We’ve got some new images for you to check out. They were submitted by Niels Kierulf.

Planters, if you forgot what it was like to race the weather back to the cache, some of these images just might remind you. You’ll find some amazing, vivid photos in this collection: planter faces, big sky and the fragile beauty that’s still to be found in a clearcut, if you know where to look.

Friends of Eating Dirt in Toronto, I’ll be at Books & Brunch with all the talented authors on the Charles Taylor Prize shortlist:

Sunday, March 4 – Globe & Mail/Ben McNally Books Authors’ Brunch. King Edward Hotel. 10am.

Call the bookstore for tickets. Inside track says they’re zipping out the door pretty fast.

If you’ve already read Eating Dirt, you know that much of it is set on Vancouver Island. And so this upcoming tour is extra special for me. If you’re about town, come out and say hello!

February 4 – Salt Spring Island. Salt Spring Forum @ ArtSpring. 7.30pm

February 7 – Victoria. Cabin 12 @ 607 Pandora Ave. 7pm.

February 8 – Courtenay. Vancouver Island Regional Library @ 300 6th Street. 6.30pm.

February 9 – Nanaimo. Maps & Charts Bookstore @ 8 Church St. 7pm.

February 10 – Campbell River. Coho Books @ 1074 Shoppers Row. 7pm.

 

Eating Dirt has been nominated for the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize. Watch the entire announcement at Tuesday’s Toronto press conference (or skip ahead to the shortlist at 17:15):

This photo was sent by Cameron Ringland, who now lives in Bogota, Colombia. It was taken in 1989, when he was planting, he thinks, somewhere near Blue River. I don’t know how many photos I have like this–half the time I don’t even know where I was standing.

 

Cameron says:

The two guys on the far left were from Toronto and they eventually became gear testering/super guides for Tilley Endurables and MEC. The next one in is me, just loving life in the bush, then some guy I never saw again after that season. Next to him is a guy from Ottawa who eventually started a skater/surf/snowboard shop, one of the first in the area, and he did really well. He introduced me to the Dead and Led Zeppelin, so him I will never forget. Finally, the guy on the far right was named Mark, from Southern Ontario. The three of us, including my sister, hitched to Calgary between plants and hung out with his brother for a few weeks until we headed back for the summer plant. Your chapter on the “in the middle of nowhere-heli-Northern BC-hellish bug-summer plant-fun,” brought me back to that super great summer plant experience . . . thanks. Good times, good times.

Looks like super-cream to me. Thanks, Cameron!