...I just noticed that I have a lovely photo of devil's club and elderberry beneath old growth forest pinned up on the wall about 18" from my left shoulder.
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Sunday, 31 August 2008
Saturday, 30 August 2008
Trees Good: Devil's Club Bad!
Section of the mural I'm currently working on for Multi Level Care. Mossing up the branches went so well yesterday! And then today, well I decided to tackle some devil's club in the foreground 2 sections over. Gaaahhhh! It'll probably add an extra 10 hours to the project but I'll nail it! - I will nail it to the wall!I took some photos of the devilish weed yesterday but it was dark & rainy and my specimens were rather beaten and ratty. Back to studying fresher ones on the internet...
Friday, 29 August 2008
Do Bears Shit In The Woods??
NO.No, they don't.
In my experience they seem to prefer parking lots and sidewalks...
(cell phone is in there just to add a sense of scale - I wasn't going for some kind of wierd juxtoposition or message)
Sunday, 24 August 2008
Global Warming. Exactly As Advertised
...at least for our area.
Three inches of rain in just over a day, and it's still supposed to be August
During the first whispers of global warming, many years ago I found a projection of climate trends and what did it show? More precipitation and the same average temperatures.
We're one of the 'coolest' places on earth.
This past week I was presented with a framed certificate noting my 20 years of volunteer weather observations.
My persistence has always been due to a seriously innate nosiness.
I just want to know. (and if at all possible, to know I'm right)
Three inches of rain in just over a day, and it's still supposed to be August
During the first whispers of global warming, many years ago I found a projection of climate trends and what did it show? More precipitation and the same average temperatures.
We're one of the 'coolest' places on earth.
This past week I was presented with a framed certificate noting my 20 years of volunteer weather observations.
My persistence has always been due to a seriously innate nosiness.
I just want to know. (and if at all possible, to know I'm right)
Sunday, 17 August 2008
Serious Shit
http://www.terracedaily.ca/show2954a/ONE_SIDE_OF_THE_SWORD_FIGHT_IN_KITIMAT
Luckily we have a more thorough news source next town over. Someone (rcmp?) has been sanitizing the crap out anything that even gets reported here.
Hope this throws a different light on it for TwinB.
Luckily we have a more thorough news source next town over. Someone (rcmp?) has been sanitizing the crap out anything that even gets reported here.
Hope this throws a different light on it for TwinB.
Friday, 15 August 2008
The Dead
"Aaaw! Nothing exciting ever happens in Calgary"
That was twinB's reaction when I'd finally figured out that the big brawl had taken place at her former hang-out. She was even somewhat amused that her friend had gone to the hospital to continue the feud - however, fun and \bubblie-ness/ aside it sounds like the incident came so very close to our normal stupid tragedy.
TwinA asked me on the phone if 'B had mentioned that there had been a hunt for a fugitive around work last night, with helicopters and everything.
'Nope - only that they wanted her to work full-time'
TwinA suggested that it didn't mean anything more to 'B than finding a dust bunny... if I sneeze, I'll let you know...
We really can't tell if its the emotional deads or the meds that are stealing her soul.
when they cut, there's no blood.
if they screamed, there'd be no sound.
when they died, nothing changed.
this town is a necropolis full of ghosts and monsters, drifting relics with their blank eyes to the ground, devoid of past or future.
they don't dream anymore.
they don't want to move anymore.
they haunt their own houses and streets, hunched and stiff with decay, no longer haunted themselves by memories of hope or pain.
they don't have to feel anymore.
they don't even talk anymore.
they breathe smoke, not words. TwinB aug.07
That was twinB's reaction when I'd finally figured out that the big brawl had taken place at her former hang-out. She was even somewhat amused that her friend had gone to the hospital to continue the feud - however, fun and \bubblie-ness/ aside it sounds like the incident came so very close to our normal stupid tragedy.
TwinA asked me on the phone if 'B had mentioned that there had been a hunt for a fugitive around work last night, with helicopters and everything.
'Nope - only that they wanted her to work full-time'
TwinA suggested that it didn't mean anything more to 'B than finding a dust bunny... if I sneeze, I'll let you know...
We really can't tell if its the emotional deads or the meds that are stealing her soul.
when they cut, there's no blood.
if they screamed, there'd be no sound.
when they died, nothing changed.
this town is a necropolis full of ghosts and monsters, drifting relics with their blank eyes to the ground, devoid of past or future.
they don't dream anymore.
they don't want to move anymore.
they haunt their own houses and streets, hunched and stiff with decay, no longer haunted themselves by memories of hope or pain.
they don't have to feel anymore.
they don't even talk anymore.
they breathe smoke, not words. TwinB aug.07
Monday, 11 August 2008
Oh You Silly Montagues/Capulets/Hatfields/McCoys...
Big altercation at one of our 'multi-family housing developments', resulting in a brawl that included a long knife, stones, fence posts and a sword. I gotta hunch that one of the families involved might very well be the household where TwinB would draw/paint for weed...
guess I'll find out over the next few days.
Aug. 13 - Oh golly. The information I've been able to glean makes it seem more and more likely that this situation did indeed take place at her former hang-out. She visited there a couple of times while here in June but found the atmosphere rather tense and grim...and that maybe she comes across as being a bit too 'white and nerdy' for most of the people around there.
guess I'll find out over the next few days.
Aug. 13 - Oh golly. The information I've been able to glean makes it seem more and more likely that this situation did indeed take place at her former hang-out. She visited there a couple of times while here in June but found the atmosphere rather tense and grim...and that maybe she comes across as being a bit too 'white and nerdy' for most of the people around there.
Sunday, 10 August 2008
Monday, 4 August 2008
Fleeing the Wild Blue Yonder
View from the airplane window as I headed to Vancouver for 10 days. The trip is a 2 hour extravaganza of mountain and glacier punctuated by a rare glimse of road or settlement (depending on the route chosen by the pilot). I'm back out in the field now which is how I choose to think of this place:
this is the field - not the boonies.
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