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No Mistake About it: Visiting the Fossils of Mistaken Point

I once read a saying that the difference between North America and Europe can be summed up in the statement that in North America, one hundred years is considered to be a long time, whereas in Europe,...

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Yesterday and Today

Yesterday There’s a world of difference in a day. Today The Robin Family has built a nest under Katherine’s playhouse, near the greenhouse. They were watching today as I worked on the irrigation...

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Of an evening

Moss, waiting patiently for flying balls in the garden. An addition to my gardening tools that has proven invaluable thus far this summer is the Chuck-it.* Technically, I suppose, it’s not a gardening...

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When the whales come….

Here in Newfoundland, it isn’t Easter that promises Spring and its joyously heralded successor, Summer. No, in Newfoundland, when April and May arrive, we recognise with a certain pragmatism, that this...

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A novelty

The shell of a Waved Whelk (Buccinum undatum). Or so I thought. I have been mucking about on beaches for thirty-seven years now. I have caught crabs, squid, baby lobster, swimmy fish of all sorts,...

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Running (around with) The Goat(s), Part 1

There is a particularly lively and challenging traditional dance in Newfoundland called “Running the Goat“. It is a series of movements and an interweaving of people that carries with it the spirit of...

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Running (around with) The Goat(s), Part 2: Visiting The Feather

We didn’t expect the goats. Then again, goats are nothing if not unexpected (is that a triple negative or a double?). We had been warned that The Feather was community grazing land and that there were...

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Morning visitors

Every morning a family of whisky-jacks (also known as grey jays, Canada jays, or camp robbers) haunts our house here on Exploits. They’ve been coming around for decades and I often wonder if the...

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To prove she’s still alive…

Jean, aged 14, and butterfly, newly hatched. Filed under: butterflies, Exploits Islands, family, Newfoundland & Labrador, Notre Dame Bay, photo, photography, photos

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Home again

Moss & Rowan at Gull Island Cove, Exploits Islands We’re home again, in Torbay, Newfoundland, after a marvelous trip to Exploits Islands. I haven’t even started looking at the photos I took; the...

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Balancing a web

  The analogy of life as a web is possibly overused, but always apt. I took this shot (among others) at Dildo Run Provincial Park during a recent vacation on one of those perfectly quiet and misty...

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Sometimes you do the best you can.

  Heart’s Content Lighthouse Pyramid We somehow ended up in Heart’s Content (among other places) on Saturday. I’m still not precisely sure how that happened, but given our relatively high levels of...

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A wee distraction

  Yesterday, we brought this home: Resident birdwatcher He doesn’t quite have a name yet. We’ve tossed around everything from Tolkien to Pangur-ban and have almost settled on Dewey (after the decimal...

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Patience

Since taking over this office (that sounds a little hostile, doesn’t it?) we’ve done a number of things to make the place more ours and more functional. One of my favourite projects, setting up the...

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Testing

For our upcoming trip to Florida, I thought it prudent to have on-hand a waterproof and durable point-and-shoot camera, to take places that my DSLR should never go. So today I picked up the Olympus...

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