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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Sep 05
Music of the Week
Quotes of the Week
From the #ItsGoodToBeKing file . . .
“Philip, by the grace of God king of the French, to Boniface who acts as though he were pope, little or no greeting. Let your great fatuity know that in temporalities we are subject to no-one…”
Philip IV “the Fair” of France responding to a letter from Pope Boniface VIII rebuking the king for appointing clerics without regard to papal wishes, a letter that was conspicuously burned, quoted in Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church & State 1050-1300
Source: John Robson Online
Posted: 2025 Sep 06
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