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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Apr 04
Poetry of the Week
The Rhodora
- Ralph Waldo EmersonRhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never thought to ask, I never knew:
But, in my simple ignorance, suppose
The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.Posted: 2025 Apr 04
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
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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