Australia’s Grass Trees

With snow blanketing our Nova Scotia yard and nearby meadows and woods, I decided to devote today’s post to an icon of Australian vegetation, the grass tree. During our year in Oz, Vilis and I f...

3 Intriguing Bird Behaviour Videos

This morning, I walked with Pepper in calm, still cold before sunrise, the -15°C air fresh and biting. New snow blanketed our access road, the white stuff embossed with amorphous hollows created by c...

Australian Bowerbird Artistry

During our year in Australia, Vilis and I observed three species of bowerbirds, the males of which build and decorate courtship bowers and arrange display courts to attract potential mates. In Townsvi...

Canadian Badlands

Our Nova Scotian winter teeter-totters between cold clarity dusted with snow and balmy bouts of rain. After days of brisk dawns with the outdoor thermometer reading in the mid to high teens below free...