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Not my best work, but some of my favourites.

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Life will pass you by if you don’t take the time to stop and appreciate it. I often wish I had stopped and captured more memories.

 
sundog and trees in the winter

beautiful sundog, Whitehorse, Yukon (2022)

Balloons over a canal, Qurna (2023)

Richardson's Ground Squirrel in a wood pile

Richardson’s Ground Squirrel (Urocitellus richardsonii) - Grasslands National Park (2019)

 

ice and steam on the Bow River, Calgary, AB (2022)

Rummel Lake, Alberta (2022)

(2023) حبيبي جميل
Egyptian man riding an Arabian horse

Arabian horse show - Qurna, Egypt (2018)

Perplexing Bumble Bee (Bombus perplexus) Riley Park, Calgary (2023)

Bombus centralis, Calgary, Alberta (2023)

Yellow-bellied Marmot (Marmota flaviventris), Vernon, BC (2019)

The majestic camel, Birqash, Egypt (2015)

derby at Glenhaven Stables, Cochrane, AB (2022)

Voudeni, Greece (2014)

bunch of brightly peach-coloured fungi

Fungi, Irishtown Park, NB (2018)

tall plant with yellow and green flowers

Mountain Deathcamas (Anticlea elegans), Paddy’s Pond, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory (2021)


Tyndall Fossils - Calgary, AB

Tyndall fossil - A “honeycomb” tabulate coral colony, probably Trabeculites or Saffordophyllum. SAIT, Senator Burns building. (2023)

Nautiloid, SAIT

Identifications taken from the article by:

Koning, Tako (2020) Tyndall Stone: Hunting Ordovician Fossils in Downtown and Inner-City Calgary. Alberta Palaeontological Society Bulletin Volume 35, No. 4, December 2020

detail of Ordovician fossil from left

Receptaculites, SAIT

Rugose corals (“horn corals”) in cross section, SAIT


truck in the Niger River in Mali

Car wash in the Niger River, Mali (2011)

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

~ Heraclitus

THINGS NAUTICAL

Photo: View from Ithaca

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