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When life hands you garlic…
… make soup. From time to time clients bring me groceries. Often it is a client that is staying for awhile, unsure of whether we offer meals here or not. Some are regular clients, who bring something along with them for me. Thanks to a couple of clients I recently found myself with a couple…
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More Monday Miscellany (Now with even more alliteration)
Here, are some more shots from the last little while. Some had been meant to have posts of their own but too much time has passed. Once again, the iceberg theme is dominant. First of all, here is a rather stripy photo of a late evening fall sky. More photos below the fold…
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Monday Miscellany
The title of this post (and the idea behind it) was shamelessly, shamelessly stolen from Seabrooke's wonderful The Marvelous in Nature. Truth be told I'd be much better served by stealing her writing skills, or her skills as a naturalist, but alas I have to make due with mine. I'm behind. It seems that every…
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Blowin’ in the wind
A couple of days ago, Hilary and I took advantage of the golden weather for a bit of a drive and some exploring. At Uluksan she quickly locked into a large patch of Dandelions in seed. The huge HUGE iceberg drifting down Adam's sound, coupled with Hilary and Dandelion seeds made an unbeatable photo op.…
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Late season longspurs
Out the other day, I found a couple of juvenile Lapland Longspurs that were still hanging around. I would have suspected that they would have headed south already, but apparently not all of them. I tried to get a couple of photos of them but they left a lot to be desired. I'm at the…
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Pre-school
School for Travis started on the 17th, but last Friday saw the very first day of preschool for Hilary. There is always some trepidation in events like this. Hilary spends a lot of time with me, and I was worried that when the time came for me to leave her at the classroom she'd start…
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American Pipit (Anthus rubescens)
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Attack of the luminescent jellyfish
Some time ago Kimberlee, who is the woman behind a blog from the far north of Alaska called The Buggy Side of the Dog, posted a video of a jellyfish that produced an amazing light show along rows of cilia. While on first blush these multicolour lights along the eight rows of cilia would appear…
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A photo for Jochen
Jochen, the (some what infrequent) blogger extraordinaire of Bell Tower Birding, made a photo request in the comments for this post of several days ago. In the comment he challenged me to post a flight photo of a white phase Gyrfalcon in front of an iceberg. Now I think it will be a nigh on…
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Babes in the Woods (Tundra?)
Reflections in the Snow-Covered Hills is pretty much a daily read for me. But I have to say that I found this post on totally hot male babes somewhat disconcerting. Disconcerting because I'm not on it. Now normally a list like this wouldn't bother me, I mean I could care less if I'm not on…
