Measure of the Year : Reflections on Home, Family, and a Life Fully Lived

Roderick L Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations.

In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his wife Ann and their four children tour us through each season, and teach us the ways in which the Earth governs the events in our lives.

Haig-Brown observes salmon, blue grouse, blacktail deer and robins, with a soft eye and gentle appreciation for their trials.

He discerns how the weather interacts with the land, and how the land interacts with our attempts at civilisation.

Haig-Brown also discusses his work at a magistrate, and the challenges of marriage, amateur book collecting, the craft of the writer, and the meaning of community.

A snap shot of rural BC in the 1950s, "Measure of the Year" is a country story, told by a man happy in his chosen way of life.