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Something has taken up residence in the basement. I first discovered it was downstairs yesterday. I don’t know if the word “discovered” is actually the appropriate word. It’s more like, “Yesterday, I first was driven crazy by something *noisy* and *obnoxious* in the basement.” Yes, indeed, that seems much more accurate. Yesterday morning, I was […]
All aboard for the best of this week’s animal blogging at Friday Ark #118 on the Modulator.
This afternoon, Sabrina and I celebrated the winter solstice with a walk in the fields and woods. The weather has been unusual for this time of year. The temperature got up to around 4C (39F) by mid-afternoon. The pasture was quite dry — enough so that we were able to sit together in the long […]
This is a post in a series about favourite moments of nature observation that have occurred over the past couple or so years. It’ll help to pass the time spent indoors this winter as I wait to be back out observing insects, spiders, frogs and others. This photo of a White-tailed Deer fawn (Odocoileus virginianus) […]
These are few posts which I’ve recently read and enjoyed while visiting other blogs: * The first is a series of posts on Pohangina Pete, containing photos and journal entries from Pete’s current wanderings in India. As Always, Pete’s photos are stunning: Part One: Badrinath; Part Two: Engineer Baba; and Part Three: The idea of […]
On Saturday, while we were measuring White Oaks at Foley Mountain, I noticed this Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) growing atop a large fractured boulder on the exposed ridge. I’m always fascinated by trees that manage to survive by sending their roots into fissures atop a large boulder, or in the side of a rocky […]
On Saturday, while hiking some of the trails at Foley Mountain Conservation Area, we did a little tree measuring as part of our ongoing project to measure a selection of trees throughout our region. This time, we decided to focus on the White Oaks (Quercus alba) that grow along the ridge overlooking Upper Rideau Lake […]