4 snow geese, flying overhead
I’ve been spending lots of time out in the marshes of ladner lately. Tuesday was the “Christmas bird count” in Ladner. Basically, the bird count is a way for large numbers of people all over the continent to go out and assess the wild bird populations. This was [...]
Sugar loves attacking tissue paper
Merry Christmas all…or whatever you celebrate or don’t celebrate ;)
My family isn’t christian, but we like to have a family get-together and exchange gifts. Secular christmas or something. whatever…we like it. I get some time to hang out with my brother, who i only see every few weeks, [...]
went out birding again today. I must have watched way too many nature shows as a kid, because i find that i just love lying dead still on my stomach in the dirt, waiting for a Winter Wren to come out of some undergrowth so i can take a picture. (and i never [...]
a Spotted Towhee. quite shy.they usually hide under thick bushes.
i had a nice ride out to the Reifel Wildfowl Refuge yesterday. It’s located on Westham island, here in Delta. Basically, whenever the X-Files needed a remote farm location, they went to Westham island. anyway, so there’s this big bird sanctuary out [...]
approximately the size of a small crow
i had some fun yesterday and today by making a bunch of new headers for the blog. i like the idea of having a random header at the top, but i couldn’t quite figure out how to keep a theme with it before…but now i made the little [...]
somebody asked me today if i’m gonna vote, so i said i’m not gonna bother. It seems to be fairly common to associate voting with democracy, but it seems that it wasn’t always so. In the history of democracy, there are many examples of places that had a vibrant participatory democracy, and many [...]
Yesterday i went to a full day of events at the vancouver public library that were done in memory of the women killed in the montreal massacre. I went to several presentations and round-table discussions and was extremely impressed. I left the library at 10pm with a renewed sense of purpose, convinced that [...]
ya, so i modified my travel plans a bunch. the plan, now, is to head to argentina in early january, and come back in late february for the stupid lawsuit trial. There’s still hope that if i make an “offer of settlement” then the lawsuit could go away. This is quite annoying, [...]