Archive for January, 2007

friday ark #123

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

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cold days & coyote

Friday, January 26th, 2007

We’re finally into a stretch of cold weather now, with temperatures dipping to -18 C. (0 F.) or further by nightfall. By day, the skies are usually a clear, cold blue with near translucent ribbons of clouds. What little snow we have is dry and powdery, but when packed, it becomes crunchy so […]

a midnight serenade

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Last night, just a short while before midnight, the local Coyote (Canis latrans) pack dropped by to serenade me. Being a little slow off the mark, I didn’t think to record their song for the first couple of minutes, and then I realized that the memory card was out of my camera, so I […]

the mystery of the marked trees

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

A couple of days ago, in my hiking report from Mill Pond Conservation Area, I wrote about some trees that are marked with numerals written in blue paint. We first noticed the marked stand of trees in one region of the forest some time ago - I can’t quite remember when, but it’s probably […]

sorting out the photo closet

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Now that temperatures have dropped and there’s a bit of snow on the ground, I finally seem to be in the mood to work on some of the projects I had planned for this winter. By far, the most daunting is sorting and editing the past couple of years of photos - and then […]