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nature, Photography

Spring Progress

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In spite of varied weather, we have been holding our temperatures over the last while and according to the environmental prognosticators, we are supposed to be in the 20s C (70s F) next week. Could be more whiplash weather so we will have to see!

In any case, the local marmots are out in full force and are looking awake and full of beans …

… a very good sign of more stable weather, at least as far as temperatures are concerned.

I spotted some opening buds …

… that really made my day …

and felt an overall sense of spring’s arrival. Lovely.

Happy Friday.

Commentary

Cartoons, Anyone?

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Michael de Adder is a Canadian freelance editorial cartoonist who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

His cartoons, while humorous, sarcastic and satirical, also encapsulate in a single drawing the central kernel of any political or social situation.

Over the years he has taken on very controversial topics and everything else in between from local politics to international issues. By turns, he exposes the foolishness, cruelty and stupidity of the central players in the often opportunistically generated predations that they impose on others.

At one point, he was terminated by a media outlet for his anti-Trump cartoons; this particular outlet had connections to U.S. interests that apparently tried to stop the spread of his criticisms.

If you’re interested in more information about him, here’s a link: https://www.deadder.net/home

nature, Photography

Looking Back … at Bears

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Once more, here is a “looking back” post containing pictures from years ago; these photos aren’t necessarily great but are important to me. There are three earlier posts in this series; you can find them here if you’re interested:

https://lynettedartycross.com/2025/01/26/looking-back/

https://lynettedartycross.com/2025/02/03/looking-back-again/

https://lynettedartycross.com/2025/02/10/looking-back-once-more/

In the last post, I left off in 2017 with my arrival in the Northwest Territories. I would work there for the next six years and eight months, concluding with my retirement in October, 2023.

This time, I’m looking back at some of the bear photographs I was able to take during my NWT time; one of them is an all-time favourite.

We spotted this tired-looking spring bear, probably a yearling, while returning from a hike in April, 2018. We were safely in our truck when we saw him.
This bear was very determinedly getting through the deep snow. Did he have a very important date to keep? This may look like a winter picture, but I actually took this one in late May, 2022, while on my way to a conference. In NWT, it can snow at any time between mid-August and mid-June.
This bear was a very big guy and still looking sleepy in early May, 2021.
This young bear from June, 2021, was very curious about us and looked at us just as much as we looked at him; it’s one of my all-time favourite photos. He was probably wondering if we had something more interesting to eat than plain salad!

Happy Monday.

nature, Photography

Sparkle

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A beautiful trail view of Okanagan Lake as the sun shines on it …

… but that sunny weather has been replaced with this, unfortunately …

… looks almost like winter except that the temperature, thankfully, is about 10C (50F). It’s drizzly and overcast but at least there’s no snow. March is proving to be much more liony than lamby.

Happy Sunday.