Touch Grass #01: John Dean Park

Most of what makes this worth the morning is not on the listing. John Dean handed the province the first thirty-two hectares of this hill in 1921 and four neighbours added to it; it is a hundred and seventy-four now, protecting one of the last old-growth Douglas fir and Garry oak stands on the Saanich Peninsula. A century of people deciding to leave something alone, which is a rarer achievement than anything I will ship this quarter. Number one of ten, so there is no penalty for finding out early whether this is your kind of Sunday.