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Photo Memory of the Week
Coming Up This Week: A Monday/Tuesday Holiday
In honour of Canada Day 2025, here's a two-part video from 2022.
Posted: 2025 Jun 28
Poetry of the Week
The Only Poem
- Leonard CohenThis is the only poem
I can read
I am the only one
can write itPosted: Jun 28
Tag Archives: Conservation
National Treasure #167: Beaufort Sea
Colder than cold. Continue reading
National Treasure #159: Harvey Locke
Conservationist, writer, photographer. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Through Canada
Tagged Conservation
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National Treasure #154: Knight Inlet
Bears and kayaks and big water, oh my. Continue reading
National Treasure #84: National Marine Conservation Areas
Hitherto secret initiatives to protect (as opposed to defend) Canada’s coastline. Continue reading
National Treasure #82: National Parks
A system of national parks, representing and protecting Canada’s biodiversity. Continue reading
National Treasure #25: Gros Morne National Park
A Newfoundland national park. Continue reading
How to Estimate an Alligator’s Length
“To estimate an alligator’s length, convert the distance in inches from the tip of the nose to the eye ridge into feet.” I check it twice. Yes, that’s what it says, apparently dead serious, no pun intended. Continue reading
A Persistence of Beavers
One of a miscellany of short observations from a trip to Scotland. Look! Wood chips! Speaking in hushed, not to say reverential, tones, our guide points out this indisputable evidence of, poetically enough it seems, Castor fiber, the European/Eurasian beaver. … Continue reading