21 May 2013
12 May 2013
awesome Canadians: Commander Chris Hadfield
Chris Hadfield is coming home in two days via a Soyuz spacecraft. He became the first Canadian to command the ISS when he arrived back on 21 December. Commander Hadfield has proven to be a great populariser of space exploration - he rocks at engaging audiences with science: 16,000+ You Tube subscribers with 860,000+ video views; and 773,000+ Twitter followers.
4 May 2013
guest shots: vultures by borneodaya@gmail .com
turkey vultures photographed in the Greater Vancouver Regional District
Classification of 'new world' vultures, including these turkey vultures, has vexed taxonomists for decades. Current thinking is that they belong in the order Accipitriformes along with hawks and eagles as diurnal birds of prey.
Photos by borneodaya@gmail.com. Used with permission. Contact the artist for high resolution copies.
30 April 2013
27 April 2013
22 April 2013
virgin's bower
^^Native to southern BC, Washington, Oregon and east of the Rockies to the Texas coast,
Columbia Virgin's Bower (Clematis columbiana var. columbiana) often grows as a ground
cover rather than as a climber in it's wild state.
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