Spreading the link love on a rainy Friday

Frankly, I hate rainy days (immediate question asked by random person on the street and/or close friend walking near by: “so why do you live in Vancouver if you hate rain” … Raul’s answer “…”). I mean, please, weather gods, can we just have ONE full week of full sun? I don’t care if it’s cold, I’ve learned to layer up. Geez…

The problem with rainy days is that they may screw up my “Cherry Blossom Photo-Walk”, the one I’ve been trying to organize for a couple of weeks. If the weather cooperates tomorrow, there might be a cherry blossom walk. Please check my blog tonight and I’ll let you know where we stand. I might have to cancel, depending on whether people are willing to go for the photo-walk regardless of the crappy weather. Can I have a show of hands who would be interested? Thank you. Drop me a comment or an email.

Well, after having had a minor weather-related rant, here is some link love. Note: some of these posts *may* be recent (e.g. within the last week), but not necessarily. While I admit that yeah, sometimes I *love* bringing you very fresh content (liveblogs count as ABSOLUTELY FRESH, on-the-spot content), this Friday link love is just for some posts I think you would benefit from reading.

- Duane is going to the 2008 Junos and Rebecca has an action-packed post about it. I am looking forward to Duane’s coverage. And of course, to pretty pictures
- Phaedra tells you some rather important stuff about Maca. For a second there I thought she was going to trick me with “Maca…damia nuts”. Sorry, silly joke … go read about its properties!

- Corinna and Adam are launching a Sock Monkey business and they tell you all about it. I think those sock monkeys are totally lovable I should seriously consider getting one!

- Barbara (who usually talks a lot about love!) makes a couple of good points on Earth Hour and Live Earth and stuff. Since I’m an environment specialist, I *should* read them in detail and offer my thoughts. But given that I’m almost running out the door for another engagements, I’ll read them tonight - but YOU should read them now
- Jonathon tells you the small things you can do to save the environment, even in your small business offices. Great suggestions My ecological footprint is not as small as I wish it was, but hey I’m working on it!

- Maktaaq gives you an overview of a recent Africa-focused book. By the way, even though this is a serious and insightful post of hers, you should really read some of her earlier writing. She is SO incredibly funny!

- Keira-Anne always writes beautifully but this particular post hit home with me. It’s really poetic. You need to read it to understand.

Ok, I got still a lot of love (and link love) to give, but I have a heck of a lot of things, errands, appointments and stuff to do. So, I got to run. I’m off to take pictures of a wonderful couple of friends of mine and their beautiful newborn.

And YES - I do have commentary on the Geist lecture and the ‘new normal’ But I don’t have the time to post it right now. Sorry, got to run