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Traditional Clothing Contest
Alright, I'm finally getting around to posting Leah's photos from the Traditional Clothing contest from the Nunavut 10th birthday celebrations up here April 1st. There are a lot of photos to post, so I'm going to just post them and not a lot of narrative, I'll be happy to try and answer any questions you…
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Birds of the Spring Equinox
One of David Ringer’s, of Search and Serendipity, on-line projects is the on line listing service Birdstack. David is a gifted writer and world traveller, and he’s passionate about birds. Through Birdstack, he’s created the on-going projects for birding on the Equinoxes and Solstices. Here then are reports from around the world about just what…
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Because
… an occasional photo of me on the blog can't be that bad of a thing. Can it?
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One-legged high kick
While downloaded images from Leah's camera I came across these shots that I hadn't been aware that she had taken. These were taken during the Christmas games and are all of the one-legged high kick. Here is how it works. The contestant stands on one foot. Jumping up he kicks a object suspended above his…
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Ross’s Gull
The past little while has seen me studying up on one of the Arctic's delightful small gulls, Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea). While the Ross's Gulls are known to breed mainly in the Russian Arctic there have been four known breeding sites in North America, one in Churchill Manitoba and three in Nunavut, the most recently…
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Glowworm
After reading a couple of posts over at A Passion for Nature about Glow Worms I ended up really curious about some things. Specifically I got thinking about glowing as a strategy when you're a relatively sedate small organism. It makes sense as a strategy for a winged animal, but less so (to me) for…
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Qapiq
I'll post more when I get the photos on to one of my computers, and organize them, but here is a teaser from the Traditional clothing contest on Nunavut's 10th anniversary celebrations. This is Qapiq, at 88 our eldest elder, and one of my favourite people. She's wearing skin clothing that she made herself. The…
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Final 16
The finalists for the Best Job in The World were announced this evening. Congratulations to Erik Rolfsen from Vancouver for being the sole Canadian in the running. It now becomes a job interview. I'd like to think that it was my throwing my heavy weight endorsement his way, that swayed the judges. While I am…
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Edgar Allen Poe likes me.
He really likes me. Well, okay, I know he's dead and all but so is Charles Darwin (and it would have been even cooler to have him say I have "elegant prose", being one of my biggest heroes and all). Okay, whats that look for? Poe and Darwin were just helping pinguinus put up the…
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Scenes from a celebration
It was a gorgeous day for the 10th Anniversary. Minus ten with a warm sun feels incredible after last weeks -36C. Brand new Kamiks The best place to observe the action, definitely from an Amautiq My girl mingling in the crowd My boy, moments before the "get that camera out of my face" paparazzi push.…
