The young volcanoes of the southwest I knew there were volcanoes down there. Steve lives under one, as seen above. I was impressed with the stats, however, and the Whack a Mole history. I hadn’t heard of these one off monogenetic volcanoes before. I have to wonder what the mechanism is for that.
Author: Sea Run
The Forests of Kunashir Island
The forests of Kunashir Island Steve and I share a fascination for the wilds of northeast Asia. An added bonus for me is that the region is the eco analog to here which is the boreal deciduous transition on the northwest corner of a temperature ocean. So similar and, yet, so different. This picture brought that out. …
More Comet Megafauna Extinct Theory
More Comet Megafauna Extinct Theory “It’s too soon to say if there was a causal connection or not, but what we can say is that this event did happen around the same time as when we think the megafauna disappeared, which is intriguing,” Schultz said. “There’s also a chance that this was actually witnessed by …
Hognose Drama
Hognose Drama on Facebook This is a better video on Facebook but I can’t embed it here due to a paywall on WordPress. There are many such videos on Youtube but they lack clarity. Anyway, it’s the first time I saw this behavior, although I knew of it. It was neat to see and a …
Superstar
NS Bird Society Scissor-Talied Flycatcher, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Oct 2021. This guy is a superstar. There are many pix of this rare visitor online, this week When I was under 10 and in a bird phase, I was enamoured by this species but I have never seen one here, or in the states. As usual, …
It is not the size of the dog in the fight…
..it is the size of the fight in the dog. This is played for laughs but it brings up a real problem. The closer the dog is to the bear, the more likely the bear will chase the dog back to the owner, when the dog chickens out. It reminds me of when my salmon …
Local First Nations Song
Heard it on the radio yesterday. Very haunting. Yo-Yo Ma brings haunting Mi’kmaw anthem to new audience
The Wants, etc
10 GA. V13 DARNE SXS SHOTGUN. Cal. 10 Ga., 2 7/8″. S# 17201. Bbls. 29 1/4″ mono bloc, has V series top bbl. bolt & fitted w/ narrow matted game rib. Bbl. flats stamped w/ French Nitro proofs & 3 Darne punches (V13) & marked for 65mm chambers. Also present are 2 stamps “HORS” …
Speaking of Sci Fi….
Gun-toting robo-dogs look like a dystopian nightmare. Check out the creepy video. Does he fetch, too?
Sci Fi
A-defense-of-genre-literature I read Steve’s sci-fi discussion above when it came in by email. It reminded me of Steve’s interest in H._P._Lovecraft and the recent Jupiter pic above. My first thought was it was the Lair of Cthulhu, as did someone else. I saw these notes on Green Slugs and Green Slugs 2.0 earlier and it brought this …