My favourite book is one I haven’t read yet.
I'm obsessed with the tiny plants that grow in sidewalk cracks. This topic never became my main research area, but I've done a few projects here and there. While I was participating in an urban plant project in a suburb west of Tokyo, I learned that a…
Urban fox den on my way to work. They raised kits there two springs ago. Have not seen foxes this year only tracks. Smells like fox though🦊
Today, this is the Way...more snow for Halifax
This is amazing!
The bridge I use for commuting is out for a year for repairs, so I’m taking the long way around. Happily, the new route looks like this😀
snow day with teasel
“He’s making us identify frickin’ sticks!” The joys of winter botany.
For years, I taught undergraduate courses on botany, plant identification and ecology. Our fall teaching semester went from September to early December. Where I live in Nova Scotia we have a late fall, so there was still a good…
Saw the Hu in Ottawa as headliners in fall 2024. One of best shows I’ve ever seen!
Another great morning for waterbird monitoring at Black Rock Beach
Ecology made me into a terrible gardener! Part 2.
For just over 18 years I worked as a university professor at a small, mainly undergraduate university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During the summers, there were often more than 10 people associated with my research lab: fourth year honours research…
Ecology made me into a terrible gardener! Part 1.
For just over 18 years I worked as a university professor at a small, mainly undergraduate university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During the summers, there were often more than 10 people associated with my research lab: fourth year honours research…
Sunrise, Black Rock Beach, Halifax
The ice is beautiful but what I like best about this stream is the clarity of the water. No erosion and soil loss in this highly urbanized park
a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
Damn! Thank you for pointing that out. Super embarrassed now...was thinking about the post from the day before. And glasses, gotta keep wearing the glasses...🤓
When I was a professor, I once bought an entire box of Gathering Moss and every graduate student received a copy when they defended their thesis. To me, this book represents the epitome of scientific communication for a general audience.
Regulator approves Halifax Water rate hike of 18.1% over four months
Story by me
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Thank you for your writing (always)! Today I’m loving the birds at my feeder and their different styles: goldfinches staying at the feeder and gorging, chickadees taking a seed and flying to a nearby branch to eat, mourning doves on the ground underneath the feeder eating the debris from above...
Ice T was a prophet, first in 1989 (with Jello Biafra) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul7x...
again in 2017 (with Dave Mustaine) www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvYM...
The reality that Black Americans have faced for generations is becoming apparent to more people?
The Venus of Turnipdorf…grown in #NovaScotia
Kicking at the darkness by…photographing turnips?
I love seeing them at our feeders and suet block. Despite their reputation, they are only there from time to time and seem to share with all the other species.
My favourite book!🌲🌱
💧 Halifax Water rates finalized. Residential bills to rise 12.1% in Jan 2026 and 6% in Apr 2026. Average +$9.28/month in January and +$5.11 in April. Increases driven by inflation, aging infrastructure and system growth.
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#Halifax #NovaScotia #HalifaxWater
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This is why we need to support independent journalism: they do the gross, dirty work so that we don’t have to!
Hung the feeder low so that my wife can also reach it. These ones cleaned it out in 5 minutes...learning is fun!
Canada won't because a) Carney is all in on digital asbestos, and b) his former firm Brookfield was a major investor in helping Musk buy Twitter.
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Halifax sunrise, kicking at the darkness by walking with friends #NovaScotia
#NovaScotia
Nova Scotia Power top brass sit out rate hike hearing #Cowards
Energy board says utility execs have testified in rate hearings for at least 20 years, but not this year
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This volunteer common juniper in my front yard is bringing joy on this dreary Halifax morning. It's ~18 years old!
