Seen and Heard in Edmonton

This weather is something else, eh? My Instagram feed is so full of hoar-frost photos that my fingers get cold scrolling through. It seems that winter is on the minds of a lot of the bloggers, too, so let’s begin there with this roundup, before heading into projects, recipes, Q&As, media, culture, advice and politics.

Glenn Kubish has a moment on a bridge; Vintage Edmonton uncovers a timeless winter danger; Maria K at Simple Moodlings and Megan McKenna at With Love, Meg take walks in the snow; Christine Bruckmann at Just Another Edmonton Mommy and realtor Ryan Dutka find fun things to do in the winter; Rhonda Krause surveys some romantic winter getaways for Travel? Yes Please!; Chris at Edmonton Weather Nerdery tries to figure out when winter starts to end; and there’s Vintage Edmonton again, this time with tales of a 1963 cold snap.

Projects: Chris Sikkenga and Danica Leblanc challenge you to do that thing you’ve always wanted to get done on Feb. 18; Therese Kehler has embarked on 100 days of cooking new recipes, using “kitchen castoffs” as often as possible; Cindy of Let’s Om Nom is going to make her way through Edmonton Cooks, the recipe book of Edmonton’s chefs.

What’s for breakfast? Karlynn Johnston of The Kitchen Magpie and Lyndsey of Over My Styled Body have some ideas. If you’re more in the mood for dinner, try Cassie’s salmon recipe at Mouth Half Full.

Three very different but interesting Q&As crossed my transom: The Wanderer’s Chris Berger interviews paleontologist Scott Persons; Latitude 53 features a talk with artist Nadine Bariteau; and The Local Good’s Chris Gusen chats with urbanist Darren Proulx.

On the journalism front, Jeff Samsonow launches Edmonton Quotient; Mack Male updates our progress on Taproot Edmonton; and you can always get more media news from Mack’s weekly Media Monday.

Fancy some culture? The Edmonton Opera blog chats with one of the stars of the upcoming production of Cinderella; Devin R. Bruce offers his picks on the Variant Edition blog; and Liz Nicholls previews Disgraced, coming soon to the Citadel.

There’s lots of good advice floating around in blogland. Ashley Janssen has a great post on practicing gratitude, in business and in life; Jill Scheyk outlines the differences between goals and objectives; Calissa at Lux Beauty Boutique shares what solo travel taught her; Sheldon Johnston shares tips on buying a home with your parents; Diana at 204 Park teaches you how to purge your closet; and Sarah Meier outlines the benefits of a fit pregnancy on the Blitz Conditioning blog.

On the political front, Graham at Almost Infinite thinks about what it means to have a president who doesn’t play by the rules; Natasha Chiam of The Stay-at-Home Feminist reflects on what solidarity really looks like in the wake of the Women’s Marches; and Michael Janz weighs in on Alberta’s redrawing of the electoral map.

That’s what I could get to this time around. There is, of course, so much more to be found on ShareEdmonton and in previous blog roundups. I keep these in a Flipboard magazine, too.