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    Canadian Mammals: Columbian Ground Squirrel

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  • Hiking in Canada: Fundy National Park: Laverty Falls, Fundy National Park, New Brunswick (© Magi Nams)
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    Hiking in Canada: Pugwash Estuary Nature Reserve, Nova Scotia

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    Six Months in South Africa: Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and the Coelacanth

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Hi, I’m Magi Nams. Welcome to my website! For those of you from my home town of Viking, Alberta, you would know me as Marge Nietfeld. It’s great to have you here with me.

Hi, I’m Magi Nams. Welcome to my website! For those of you from my home town of Viking, Alberta, you would know me as Marge Nietfeld. It’s great to have you here with me.

NEW! Seasons on Matheson Brook is now available in paperback and ebook formats. Click on image below for book details.

NEW! Seasons on Matheson Brook is now available in paperback and ebook formats. Click on image below for book details.

The ebook box set of my Cry of the Kiwi trilogy is now available! Click on the cover below for details.

Check out the gorgeous new covers for my New Zealand travel adventure trilogy, Cry of the Kiwi: A Family’s New Zealand Adventure

My Latest Articles

  • Birding in America: Lake Towhee County Park, Pennsylvania
    Jul 7, 2023
  • Hiking in America: Haleakalā National Park, Hawai’i
    Dec 21, 2022
  • Autumn colours
    The Writing Life: Time for Seasons on Matheson Brook
    Apr 21, 2022
  • Hiking in Canada: Fitzpatrick Mountain Trail, Nova Scotia
    Feb 2, 2022
  • Exploring Faith: Spirit Fruit in the Real World, winter sunrise
    Exploring Faith: Spirit Fruit in the Real World
    Dec 31, 2021
  • salt marshes
    Hiking in Canada: Pugwash Estuary Nature Reserve, Nova Scotia
    Dec 6, 2021
  • Exploring Faith: Building a Foundation for Unity Swamp Gum in Tasmania (© Magi Nams)
    Exploring Faith: Building a Foundation for Unity
    Nov 22, 2021
  • Five Islands Provincial Park
    Hiking in Canada: Five Islands Provincial Park, Nova Scotia
    Nov 16, 2021
  • wood pile and splitting maul
    Exploring Faith: Break Down the Wall of Rejection
    Mar 12, 2021
  • Exploring Faith: Finding Joy in the Midst of Suffering
    Dec 14, 2020
  • Exploring Faith: Just Start Somewhere
    Sep 14, 2020
  • Hiking in America: West Maui Mountains, Hawai’i
    Jan 29, 2020
  • The Writing Life: Self-care and what it looks like for me as a writer: In paradise, my garden (© 2019 Vilis Nams)
    The Writing Life: Self-care and what it looks like for me as a writer
    Nov 8, 2019
  • The Writing Life: Braver Than You Know, a journey into fiction
    The Writing Life: Braver Than You Know, a journey into fiction
    Oct 23, 2019
  • Exploring Faith: How Do We Spread Beauty In This World?: White Iris (© Magi Nams)
    Exploring Faith: How Do We Spread Beauty in this World?
    Sep 7, 2019
  • Hiking in America: Coastal West Maui, Hawai'i: Coastal West Maui near Two-tiered Tide Pools of Honolua (© Magi Nams)
    Hiking in America: Coastal West Maui, Hawai’i
    Apr 29, 2019
  • What Playing Piano Taught Me About Faithfulness: A Lesson in Faithfulness (© Magi Nams)
    What Playing Piano Taught Me About Faithfulness
    Apr 20, 2019
  • Exploring America: Maui, Hawai'i: Hāna Highway, Maui, Hawai'i (© Magi Nams)
    Exploring America: Maui, Hawai’i
    Mar 26, 2019
  • Exploring Faith: Who Am I to Receive a Gift of Such Beauty?: My Access Road through Sunlit Hemlock Forest (© Magi Nams)
    Exploring Faith: Who Am I to Receive a Gift of Such Beauty?
    Mar 9, 2019
  • Hiking in Canada: Fundy National Park: Laverty Falls, Fundy National Park, New Brunswick (© Magi Nams)
    Hiking in Canada: Fundy National Park, New Brunswick
    Feb 6, 2019

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    • Seasons on Matheson Brook: A Journey to Self Through Exploring Nature
    • Cry of the Kiwi: A Family’s New Zealand Adventure Series
      • Once a Land of Birds
      • This Dark Sheltering Forest
      • Tang of the Tasman Sea
      • Cry of the Kiwi e-book box set
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      • New Zealand
      • South Africa
      • U.S.A.
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      • U.S.A.
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