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Photo Memory of the Week
Video of the Week: “It was an ambush!”
Leeloo whups a bunch of armed and nasty aliens, unarmed and all by her own self.
The quote is at timestamp 1:43.
Poetry of the Week
On Tender Hooks
- by Brian BilstonLet me cut to the cheese:
every time you open your mouth,
I’m on tender hooks.You charge at the English language
like a bowl in a china shop.
Please nip it in the butt.On the spurt of the moment,
the phrases tumble out.
It’s time you gave up the goat.Curve your enthusiasm.
Don’t give them free range.
The chickens will come home to roast.Now you are in high dungeon.
You think me a damp squid:
on your phrases I shouldn’t impose.But they spread like wildflowers
in a doggy-dog world,
and your spear of influence grows.Posted: 2025 Apr 20
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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