One tap on my mobile phone’s weather app and a comprehensive weather report, tailored to my specific location, is instantly revealed. Weather apps with their user-friendly, visual presentations…
Over 140 years ago, the most famous English language pangram appeared in the Boston Journal. Buried in the Current Events column on a page crammed with heavy text,…
One of the many joys of living in a new locale is observing and studying the dance of the seasons, the patterns of the weather and the rhythm…
Signs of spring are (finally) popping up here in Nova Scotia. One eagerly-awaited, seasonal sighting is the pussy willow (Salix discolor) catkin. The catkins, technically unopened flowers, have a…
We’re celebrating motherhood on the blog today. This post is dedicated to caring, devoted mothers and their beloved lambs, crias, kids, foals, chicks, goslings, cygnets, piglets, cubs, calves…