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Photo Memory of the Week
Also not a finch. Or a canary.
Music of the Week
Quote of the Week
“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
Source: Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Posted: 2025 Nov 28And check out this post for more of Richard Feynman's world view.
Category Archives: Appreciating Deeply
National Treasure #142: Kenn Borek Air
Arctic and Antarctic airline. Continue reading
Fern, Ladner BC
A common but remarkable fern. Continue reading
National Treasure #141: Canadian Pacific Railway
A wee railroad. Continue reading
San Tan Freeway, Gilbert AZ
Adding freeways to bridges as objects of photographic interest. Continue reading
Defining the Desert
Wasteland or wonderland? Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, New Perspectives, Photos of Flora, Through Space
Tagged Desert, Flowers, Other Plants
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National Treasure #140: Thomas Berger
Maker of hard choices, per his biographer. Continue reading
Helicopter, Tucson AZ
A view from underneath. Continue reading
National Treasure #139: Pierre Berton
Yukoner who never suffered from writer’s block. Continue reading
Wood Ducks, Ladner BC
Quack, quack, wow. Continue reading