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This and That
My sister has put her reply to the Book Meme in my comments here (as she doesn’t blog). As a bonus she has left three excellent quotes for the bibliophiles amongst you. Also check out the excellent prose of botanizing, the blog I’ve just recently added to my sidebar. Wonderful writing and well worth the…
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Book Meme
Whining about not being tagged for the Book Meme in my post on the Personal History Meme managed to get me tagged by Nuthatch at bootstrap analysis. So now I must put my money where my mouth is and show that I really am witty, erudite and sophisiticated. Sigh, this is the post where they…
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Step Right Up.
Hey, the inaugural edition of Circus of the Spineless is up at Milkriver Blog. You’ve got to go and immerse yourself in the incredible wealth of articles, stories and photos on the wild lives of invertebrates. Once again Tony has done an unbelievable job and it is well, well worth the price of the admission…
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A meme! A meme!
Nuthatch, over at bootstrap analysis, has tagged me with a new meme. Unofficially says she, but I’m going to take it as an official tag, and my responses follow below. I find the concept of the meme fascinating, and ever since I read Nuthatch’s book meme response I’ve been waiting patiently for someone to tag…
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I and The Bird #7
I and the Bird #7 is up at Dave’s Bird TLC blog. Join Dave for a cup of coffee, er actually several cups of coffee and read the usual great posts on this great carnival. A couple of posts in particular that you might want to take note of are Charlie’s lament for his favourite…
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Yellow Jackets and Parkas
A little more than a year ago a friend of mine, Niore Iqalukjuak, who happens to be the Mayor of Arctic Bay, was out for a walk on the hills above town. As he was walking he happened to spy a Yellowjacket (Vespula intermedia) . As he didn’t recognize it he took a photo of…
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Fulmars
It is a dull, cold steel grey, sort of day. Feeling very much like winter is settling in and the landscape was blanketed with snow this morning. Most of our migrants have left and soon just our resident birds will remain. Of course the Snow Buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) will stick it out to the bitter…
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Fall?
The Fall Equinox has just passed us. I guess it is fall now, although it feels like early winter. What the coming of the equinox means to us in real terms is that we now have less sunlight than almost everyone else. In North America the only communities with less sun than us would right…
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What I’m going to do with the money I’m saving on gas.
I think I’ll treat myself this Christmas and buy a real tree….
