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Qaulluqtaaq
I guess spring has arrived here. It was another gorgeous day out and I spent a little time working on my four stroke lawn ornament that some people might call a snowmobile. I thought I heard birdsong, a Snow Bunting but when I stopped what I was doing and looked, and listened some more I…
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Where I should be… right now.
I love Arctic Bay, the environment, my home and the people here. But where I really need to be right now is in Roblin Manitoba. It is my mother’s eightyith birthday. She’s never seen Hilary, and hasn’t seen Travis since he was a little bigger than he is in this photo. Held by those same…
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I and The Bird #23
I and the Bird #23 is up and running at that other bird blogger from Washington DC, Nick at birdDC. As usual, he has done a bang up job, and has sweetened the pot even more (as if the best collection of bird blogging anywhere needs any sweetening) by offering up a free Field Guide…
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If it’s raining here, why am I having a dry spell
It’s been raining here since yesterday. Very unusual for May, practically unheard of. With the warmer temperatures and the rain we are really losing snow, shifting the routes the snowmobiles take by the House. One more thing to chalk up to that non-existant climate change. I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had recently…
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More Beauty.
I imagine that, if you read this blog, you read Pete McGregor’s blog pohanginapete. If you don’t you need to. Stunning photographs coupled with brilliant writing make Pete stand out above most of the blogosphere. Back when I was first tagged with John’s Beautiful Bird meme I tagged Pete. I had hoped that he would…
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A bounty of Beautiful Birds
A short time back, John, the affable host of A DC Birding Blog, started the Beautiful Bird Meme. Deceptively simple, the rules were simply to list the ten birds one considered the most beautiful, mark the ones seen with an asterix, and then tag three others. Of course many of us have expounded on them,…
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Land of the Midnight Sun
Sometime in the last couple of days or so we had our first day of 24 hour sun. I’m not sure what the exact day it is, as we have had 24 hour light for some time now, and the hills encircling town make it impossible to see the event to the north. For the…
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Play It Sam.
I’m listening to the same song over and over. It’s not an earworm, but on occasion I find myself playing a song again, and again. Now normally that sort of thing drives me nuts. I remember a couple of us from my Hall at University going to a guy’s room, pulling Bob Welch’s French Kiss…
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Darwin’s Bulldog
It’s the 181st anniversary of the birth of T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley, eminent biologist, close friend of Charles Darwin and one of the staunchest supporters of Darwin’s Natural Selection, a man who did much to see it accepted and popularized. He tirelessly advocated and promoted Darwin’s work (while not blindly following it, he criticized several…
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Found in the Translation
I discovered, through the wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable The Writer’s Almanac, that yesterday was the anniversary of the first printing of the King James Bible in 1611. If you consider the Bible to be literature you can not help but marvel at the prose and poetry that the Kings James version offers. It has fallen…
