Nature’s colours
It occurs to me that if I were a decent photographer, I could post a photo a day of the view from my front deck — ready-made variations on a theme. I took these on…
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marking and its antidotes
I’m becoming convinced that protracted marking sessions effect bio-chemical changes which make a person appear very, very cranky. Imagine reading essays which begin “Historical aspects and events have never been so important as ever before”…
View PostThe Orcas Came Calling and I Wasn’t Home!
Our friend and neighbour, Graeme Ellis, a senior marine mammal technician with Department of Fisheries and Oceans, sent us this picture of Orca whales immediately in front of our home on Friday. Of course I…
View PostIsland drama
There’s a certain kind of winter day here — temperatures around freezing, weak wintery sunshine, skies that mix soft greys, blues and creams as ethereally as a fine kid-mohair/silk yarn — that seems to draw…
View PostArts and Culture on the Island
I realize I never got ’round to writing about the opera last weekend, and now I have to admit that’s probably not going to happen — except to say that it was a “double bill”…
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