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Photo Memory of the Week
Cloud of the Week
Ladies and gentlemen, meet this week's cloud(s). I stumbled across it while walking to a clematis-site sighting from the previous day. By the time I got somewhere without any intervening tree branches, the cloud and the colours had moved on.
Place: Calgary
Posted: 2026 Oct 09Read my posts about clouds: here and here
Read knowledgeable stuff about clouds: here
Music of the Week
Quotes of the Week
Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate,Not you, not me: don’t ask, don’t hunt for answersIn tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes.This could be our last winter, it could be manyMore, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks:Do what you must, be wise, cut your vinesAnd forget about hope. Time goes running, even
As we talk. Take the present, the future's no one's affair.
- Horace's Ode I:11Posted: Oct 08
Author Archives: Isabel Gibson
Sticks
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Wren Comma Cactus
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Spam Philosophy
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Tagged Attitudes, Critical Thinking
16 Comments
Snappy Salmon
Categorizing: an under-appreciated art. Continue reading
Come Walk with Me
Images from our first two weeks in Tempe and Gilbert. Continue reading
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Tagged Birds, Flowers, Reflections, Trees
6 Comments
Six Feet Apart or Six Feet Under?
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May I Take Your Order?
Striking a blow against entropy. Continue reading
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Tagged Citizenship, Community, Culture
12 Comments
Less is More
A wail from the retail/cultural wilderness. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Laughing Frequently, Through the Calendar
Tagged Christmas, Culture
10 Comments