This week we welcome Patricia Calder. Pat is a photographer and writer who loves nature. After retiring from a busy career as an English teacher, she has lived in the quiet village of Colborne where she writes in a sunroom overlooking Lake Ontario in the distance, her gardens at closer range, and birdfeeders. When she is thinking, she has a pleasant view out her window to inspire her stories. During her career as a teacher, she taught in 13 different schools, colleges, and at York U. As a photographer, she created a website, showed her horse images at the Royal Winter Fair, visited Sable Island to photograph the feral horses and BC’s Great Bear Rainforest to capture images of the Spirit Bears, and mounted several solo shows around Northumberland County. As a writer, she published a novel, Roadblock, and several stories in newspapers and anthologies locally; the most notable were “Stand down, soldier” written during the war in Afghanistan, and “The Gifts of Alzheimer’s” published in the Globe and Mail.

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