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December 5, 2019
Folklore & Nature: Mother Carey and her Chickens
Well, ah fare you well; we can stay no more with you, my love—Down, set down your liquor and your girl from off your knee;For the wind has come to say:“You must take me while you may,If you’d go to Mother Carey,(Walk her down to Mother Carey!)Oh, we’re bound to Mother Carey where she feeds […]
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November 19, 2019
Poem of the Week: The Shell
By Alfred Tennyson Seewhat a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! What is it? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name. Let him name it […]
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November 12, 2019
Poem of the Week: The Dragonfly
By Alfred Lord Tennyson Today I saw the dragon-flyCome from the wells where he did lie.An inner impulse rent the veilOf his old husk: from head to tailCame out clear plates of sapphire mail.He dried his wings: like gauze they grew;Thro’ crofts and pastures wet with dewA living flash of light he flew.
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November 5, 2019
Poem of the Week: The Hawk
By William Butler Yeats Call down the hawk from the air;Let him be hooded or cagedTill the yellow eye has grown mild,For larder and spit are bare,The old cook enraged,The scullion gone wild. I will not be clapped in a hood,Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist,Now I have learnt to be proudHovering over the […]
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October 29, 2019
Poem of the Week: The Moon
By Robert Louis Stevenson The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,The howling dog by the door of the house,The bat that lies in […]
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October 28, 2019
Field Journal: Kurjenrahka National Park
At the end of the first day of my solo tour of Finland’s National Parks, I drove from Puurijarvi-Isosuo National Park, a little south to Kurjenrahka National Park. Although the days are long in Finland during the summer, I only had limited time to explore one of the many trails of Kurjenrahka, and I chose […]
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October 23, 2019
Folklore & Nature: Cadborosaurus
British Columbians! Lift up a chorus!To greet the arrival of Cadborosaurus!He may have been here quite a long time before us,But he’s shy and don’t stay round too long, so’s to bore us.Cadborosaurus! Cadborosaurus!Come up and see us again, you old war ‘oss! Letter to the Victoria Daily Times from I. Vacedun It was 5:30 […]
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October 22, 2019
Poem of the Week: Snufkin’s Song
This week isn’t actually a poem, but a song from Tove Jansson’s Moomin books from my favorite character, Snufkin. “I meander through the forests in the early spring when Nature is putting on her greatest show. Under limpid blue skies and clouds so white and striking, the earth breathes and emerges from beneath the snow. […]
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October 17, 2019
Field Journal: Seals and Slugs
When a couple of Twitter friends met in Bali recently to search for invertebrates together, I was naturally overcome with jealousy missing out on their fun adventures finding nudibranchs and all kinds of fascinating insects. We decided that since all of us invertebrate geeks couldn’t get together in person to search for spineless creatures, we’d […]
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