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. Forget carpe diem: this is more like arripe occasionem.
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
Tag Archives: Trains & Boats & Planes
National Treasure #173: Johnny May
The first Inuk bush pilot. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Through Canada
Tagged Christmas, Indigenous, Professionals, Trains & Boats & Planes
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Plane Faces, Tucson AZ
More evidence of my well-wired (or was that neurotic?) brain . . . Continue reading
Posted in Laughing Frequently, Photos of Built Stuff, Photos of Faces
Tagged Trains & Boats & Planes
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Propellers, Pima Air & Space Museum
A fascinating variety of airplane propellers. Continue reading
Boat Wake, White Lake
A boat with a view. Continue reading
Redux: Snowbirds and Northern Lights
Things physical and things electromagnetic that fly through the air. Continue reading
Posted in Another Thing, Appreciating Deeply
Tagged Trains & Boats & Planes, Weather
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Mid-Week Movie #1: Loon and Fisshy
A loon in a 45-second wrestling match. Continue reading
Chop, Chop
Kayaking adventures. Continue reading
Helicopter Undercarriage, Tucson AZ
Another underneath view of a grounded helicopter. Continue reading
National Treasure #142: Kenn Borek Air
Arctic and Antarctic airline. Continue reading