Leslie aka Old Woman On The Road
@leslieek.bsky.social
I’m a retired minister of The United Church of Canada, fascinated by astronomy, geology, fungi, and committed to social and racial justice. Unknown roads thrill me.
Thank you to everyone for posting these pictures. They make me smile on a cold, wet, chilly day that has seen snow, sleet, fog and rain in southern Ontario. Your posts take me back to my foraging and exploring days in northern Manitoba. And may all of you enjoy this holy season.
December 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Thank you to everyone for posting these pictures. They make me smile on a cold, wet, chilly day that has seen snow, sleet, fog and rain in southern Ontario. Your posts take me back to my foraging and exploring days in northern Manitoba. And may all of you enjoy this holy season.
I think the idea of an Advent Art Calendar is wonderful. Here is a collage I made of many of the fungal drawings I did across Canada.
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I think the idea of an Advent Art Calendar is wonderful. Here is a collage I made of many of the fungal drawings I did across Canada.
As much as an oncologist will say - I have graduated from Cancer! The reality of that thrills me, shakes me. I want to dance and sing and twirl about. Thank you to everyone who has prayed for me, made me laugh, put up with my obsession with cancer, and used medical skills.
October 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
As much as an oncologist will say - I have graduated from Cancer! The reality of that thrills me, shakes me. I want to dance and sing and twirl about. Thank you to everyone who has prayed for me, made me laugh, put up with my obsession with cancer, and used medical skills.
a successful fungal search in my sister's back yard. Wolf's Milk Slime Mould and a mystery fungus I can't identify. Southern Ontario.
September 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
a successful fungal search in my sister's back yard. Wolf's Milk Slime Mould and a mystery fungus I can't identify. Southern Ontario.
found in Snowdon Wetland Conservation Park, Minden Hills ON.
September 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
found in Snowdon Wetland Conservation Park, Minden Hills ON.
Thought I lost everything due to an update but now it's back and again I don't know why. Is there any point in trying to use this app? I feel like I'm in kindergarden and trying to learn the alphabet. Must be an age thing.
September 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Thought I lost everything due to an update but now it's back and again I don't know why. Is there any point in trying to use this app? I feel like I'm in kindergarden and trying to learn the alphabet. Must be an age thing.
emerging boulders, branches, holes and frost heaves. Surface soft. Note to self: do not take a city car on an ATV trail. But I got turned around where someone had stored a large boat on a gravel bed. Big smile. Next I went to a proper conservation area with a real road. Lesson learned.
September 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
emerging boulders, branches, holes and frost heaves. Surface soft. Note to self: do not take a city car on an ATV trail. But I got turned around where someone had stored a large boat on a gravel bed. Big smile. Next I went to a proper conservation area with a real road. Lesson learned.
Old Woman on the Road drove on known roads today to find a place in the forest to get beyond the edge of her skin. The first trail off the known road was fascinating and clearly marked "Road not maintained. Use at own risk". It meant it. This Old Woman does not back up well. Narrow road, soft edges
September 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Old Woman on the Road drove on known roads today to find a place in the forest to get beyond the edge of her skin. The first trail off the known road was fascinating and clearly marked "Road not maintained. Use at own risk". It meant it. This Old Woman does not back up well. Narrow road, soft edges
Happy day today. The temperature is cool. The sun is shining. Kent Bookstore in Lindsay, ON has taken 5 yes 5! of my books on consignment. The Gallery in bobcaygeon has 2, Kinmount Artisans' Marketplace has 6, and Masters Book Store in Haliburton Village bought 3 outright! Yahoo!
September 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Happy day today. The temperature is cool. The sun is shining. Kent Bookstore in Lindsay, ON has taken 5 yes 5! of my books on consignment. The Gallery in bobcaygeon has 2, Kinmount Artisans' Marketplace has 6, and Masters Book Store in Haliburton Village bought 3 outright! Yahoo!
This Old Woman wanted to drive to Newfoundland and Labrador this summer but getting my book published, learning how to promote it pushing past my insecurity, plus heat waves and forest fires, meant I had to stay home (more or less). But Haliburton forests - Wow!
August 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This Old Woman wanted to drive to Newfoundland and Labrador this summer but getting my book published, learning how to promote it pushing past my insecurity, plus heat waves and forest fires, meant I had to stay home (more or less). But Haliburton forests - Wow!
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A small forest fire is 20km north of where I live. The last size reported is 27 hectares. I spoke with a friend in Thompson MB last night and their fire 7 km away was 18,000 hectares. The numbers are always changing as the fires burn. The smoke goes every where.
August 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A small forest fire is 20km north of where I live. The last size reported is 27 hectares. I spoke with a friend in Thompson MB last night and their fire 7 km away was 18,000 hectares. The numbers are always changing as the fires burn. The smoke goes every where.
Amazing what one can find walking in the woods!
August 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Amazing what one can find walking in the woods!
The launch of This Is About Life was lots of fun Many people stopped to talk and buy. Even people who didn't know me bought it! Later in the day one woman phoned me to say that she couldn't stop reading it and expected to be up all night. What comes next? Wait and see.
July 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The launch of This Is About Life was lots of fun Many people stopped to talk and buy. Even people who didn't know me bought it! Later in the day one woman phoned me to say that she couldn't stop reading it and expected to be up all night. What comes next? Wait and see.
BOOK LAUNCH!
This Is About Life
Saturday 26 July/25
10 am - 5 pm
at Kinmount Artisans' Market Place Gallery
in Kinmount, ON. Canada
Along with a Christmas in July art show and sale and Lion's Club BBQ
This Is About Life
Saturday 26 July/25
10 am - 5 pm
at Kinmount Artisans' Market Place Gallery
in Kinmount, ON. Canada
Along with a Christmas in July art show and sale and Lion's Club BBQ
July 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
BOOK LAUNCH!
This Is About Life
Saturday 26 July/25
10 am - 5 pm
at Kinmount Artisans' Market Place Gallery
in Kinmount, ON. Canada
Along with a Christmas in July art show and sale and Lion's Club BBQ
This Is About Life
Saturday 26 July/25
10 am - 5 pm
at Kinmount Artisans' Market Place Gallery
in Kinmount, ON. Canada
Along with a Christmas in July art show and sale and Lion's Club BBQ
This Is About Life has been printed and can be ordered from FriesenPress Bookstore. Paperback or Casebound.
My first published book.
My first published book.
July 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This Is About Life has been printed and can be ordered from FriesenPress Bookstore. Paperback or Casebound.
My first published book.
My first published book.
The Republicans from Wisconsin and Minnesota are calling on Canada to do something to stop wildfires and ruining their summer have said that with all today's technology it is possible. Yes it is. Stop global climate change. What is the US doing about that? They are laughable.
July 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Republicans from Wisconsin and Minnesota are calling on Canada to do something to stop wildfires and ruining their summer have said that with all today's technology it is possible. Yes it is. Stop global climate change. What is the US doing about that? They are laughable.
I am getting excited. This Is About Life is nearing a publishing date. Woohoo!
July 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I am getting excited. This Is About Life is nearing a publishing date. Woohoo!
The strongest form of resistance to that which aims to destroy what is good, is to continue being creative, respectful, and enjoying life as much as you can. That can keep hope alive and show the way through evil without giving in to it.
June 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The strongest form of resistance to that which aims to destroy what is good, is to continue being creative, respectful, and enjoying life as much as you can. That can keep hope alive and show the way through evil without giving in to it.