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Fire!
This is the second house fire that has happened at a house next door to where we are living in the last 3 years. Seriously, if you end up as a neighbour of ours, get more insurance. The fire dept is still next door, but everything seems to be out, and there appears to be…
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I and the Bird #120
The latest I and the Bird, Edition 120 is up at my friend Deb's Sand Creek Almanac. I would have loved to had an entry in it, but I've had no bird related posts up in the past couple of weeks. Like always the best of the birding blogosphere is represented, get over and take…
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Like the wind.
Some time ago I pointed out the similarities between myself and Paul Gross, the actor/renaissance man who played the fictional Mountie Benton Fraser on Due South, including our devilish good looks. It turns out that I have several connections with another actor who portrayed a Mountie on TV, Tina Keeper. And in the process of…
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This Too Shall Pass, Too.
I was going to post the first video for the OK Go song This Too Shall Pass, which is also a cool video, shot with a single unedited camera shot, like the Rube Goldberg Machine video below. But, I can't embed it as that has been turned off. So you'll just have to go here…
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The coolest thing you’ll see all week.
I guarantee it.
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Networking it.
This is cool (well for me, perhaps for you also). I'm currently the featured blog on the Nature Blog Network. Check out my interview with Wren, here. And while you're there poke around a bit, all of the best Nature blogs hang out there, you'll find some real gems.
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Stepping out with Orion
Orion takes a walk on the hills above Arctic Bay.
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I’ll settle for Silver and Bronze
When I saw King George silhouetted with the light of an almost full moon, I had to go back and grab the camera.
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State of the Arctic
Okay, say you were a group of international scientists, doing research on the Arctic, and coming off the International Polar Year, and you were going to hold a major conference to discuss your the findings over a broad area of Arctic issues. Things like the Environment, and Climate Change, with a stated goal of reviewing…
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Wind Don’t Blow
I had another post in mind for today, and I might get at it later, after I run my head around what I want to say exactly. But, in the mean time, do yourself a favour and have a listen to my friend's, (Karen MacKenzie, of Port Town Ghosts fame) music. She just released a…
