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Here a ‘chuk’, there a ‘chuk’

Sometimes our guests awaken in the morning and come in the kitchen looking confused, ‘what is that strange sound coming from the back of the house? It sounds like a bunch of chickens being strangled.”...

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Life Partners

Ravens take around two to four years to mature and before finding their mate, hang around in teenage gangs according to some research, but once they do mate, they are monogamous and establish a...

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Our Kind of Winter

Having lived nearly 20 years in Vancouver and Victoria, B. C., Canada, where snow is a novelty and rain is the norm, it is a delight to then have restored the four definite, uniquely-blessed Seasons...

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Forest Eve

Growing up, our house fronted a very large and treed city park in Rochester, New York, a city which has always received a great deal more of its share of snow than most due to what is known as...

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Sentinels

It is something a fascination how one species of bird spends its nights, in comparison with another.  What they all have in common is a desire to feel protected and beyond the reach of nocturnal...

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The Long Wait

Two days ago I left the house at 9am.  Between then and returning at noon, our pipes had frozen.  It was -23C (-9.5F).  On the coldest day so far in 2020–with pipes freezing all across Kamloops, B....

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Bird-feeder royalty

Pushing and shoving, dive-bombing, squabbling, jockeying and butting-in, the bird-feeder etiquette of our variety of finches is the birdy equivalent of an episode of ‘Survivor’.  There’s also gender...

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Lovers of a Good Fire

Pinus contorta latifolia (Lodgepole Pines), are everywhere in British Columbia and Western N. America. They provide the forest industry with most of the logs used in sustainable logging operations....

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True Lovebirds

It is only the adolescent Ravens who gang together in raucous, food-finding frat parties. Once they find their true love, Ravens are almost always seen in pairs, and stay paired with their...

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A Puffin Perfect Yuletide to you

The Atlantic Puffin spends almost all of its life in the water, coming ashore only once a year to breed, usually to the same nesting spot which the male prepares. Then, laying a single egg, they both...

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Try A Little Tenderness

Daring to re-write Otis Reading’s hit song for this brand spanking New Year: “A word soft and gentle makes life easier to bear, You won’t regret it, people won’t forget it–for love is our whole...

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Pop-up Christmas card progression, con’t . . .

….with the final design carbon traced onto a cream-coloured, blank notecard, the image is completed in watercolour — 4.5″ x 5.5″ notecard stock …..and Christmas trees added, cuts carefully made with...

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….and more Christmas cards!

Two Charles Dickens’ inspired pop-ups: The envelope and front of the card Pop-up carolers and bulldog

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Victorian Pop-up Christmas Card #2

This second Dickens-like Christmas pop-up card was sent to friends whose Labradoodle dog, ‘Juno’, was the subject of a portrait found in the post for March 9th. . . The front of the card …..and its...

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The Last of this year’s Christmas Cards

With all the pop-up Christmas cards sent, a different hand-painted option was chosen for the remaining and final card to be mailed off: ‘Solstice Moonrise’ watercolour by Lance Weisser Thank you for...

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….waiting it out

Don’t you just love this little seasonal week-long swale coming between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, when that over-filled helium balloon of a holiday finally bursts and we’re left sitting in our...

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Winter Watercolours

One of Kamloops’ older homes, the Fort House at the corner of Fortune Drive and Fort Avenue, is so named because it is on land formerly part of The Hudson Bay Company’s fur-trading post. “. . ....

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Winter Watercolours II

Seneca Park in Rochester, New York, was sledding paradise in the 1950s. Only the James Dean wanabees–cigarette-flaunting attention-starved teens–did Dead Man’s Hill: a rocky, tree-stumpy,...

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Winter Watercolours III

It seems to be just a very human thing to anthropomorphize whatever we come across–give everything from fish to insects to birds to apes to dinosaurs to pets a human personality. We even do it with...

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Winter Watercolours IV

This snowscape was commissioned by Ellen for her newly-acquired home some years ago. Some commissions can be challenging simply because the painting the person who does the commissioning visualizes in...

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