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These aren’t brand new photos, but I’ll use them to illustrate this post. Lately, I’ve seen several Woolly Bear caterpillars (Pyrrharctia isabella) moving about over the dead grass in the garden and surrounding fields. Unfortunately, I haven’t been carrying my camera around with me so much, so you get the vintage photos instead. Anyhow, about […]
I’m just getting geared up for the First Annual Blogger Bioblitz that’s coming up later this month. While walking around the farm, I’ve been thinking about which areas I’d most like to survey, and what kinds of things I’ll be looking at. There’s plenty of large stuff around — trees, birds, mammals. Due to the […]
Sabrina hasn’t appeared for awhile, so here’s a very recent image taken during one of our walks around the farm. I believe she had just finished woofing at a vehicle moving suspiciously slowly along the nearby roadway. Slow moving vehicles always attract her attention. Now, for a few reminders before I put up my main […]
I never cease to be amazed at how quickly mysteries are solved once I post something here on my blog. Here’s yet another example. Back on March 9, 2007, I posted the above photo along with an account of the discovery of this spider on a high sandy bluff overlooking the Pacific coastline near Trinidad […]
Today is a special day for a couple of reasons. For one thing, it’s Don’s birthday. That’s a photo of us taken a very long time ago. That’s Frisky sitting beside Don. She was the dog that I grew up with. And yes, that’s me when my hair was slowly turning from blonde to brown. […]
Plans are moving right along for the First Annual Blogger Bioblitz. Jeremy Bruno has been posting updates at his blog, The Voltage Gate. Last time I checked, there were 37 bloggers signed up to bioblitz one or more locations in their region. On the Blogger Bioblitz forum, ideas for mapping and recording data are being […]
Saturday, Don and I spent about 3 hours hiking around at Mill Pond Conservation Area near Portland, Ontario. It’s one of our favourite places, and we’ve spent many long days spanning all four seasons, either hiking the trails, or paddling our canoe on Mill Pond. A short way down the roadway leading to one of […]