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Salting the grave
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Visiting an old graveyard and I noticed the salt cellars placed on the graves.
Intrigued, I googled it, no relevant results, the answer is in the image above - the three symbols of the Doukhobor faith are a pitcher of water, a loaf of bread and cellar of salt. Naturally, as graveyard offerings go, only the salt remains...
The Arctic
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Never enough time
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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There's never enough time to catch up, the prison now of just enough money but it's forever spent in transit, on gas here and then back again...1 day to drive, an evening's visit, the next day - errands, shopping, a longer visit, the next day return...
Summer will be too brief and I'd better find a pocket full of diamonds before the end...
A cougar and 2 cubs
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I didn't get a picture, sorry, but earlier in the day had spotted a red smear upon the road, roadkill, that went from the right side to the left, something had dragged it over the embankment down towards the lake.
And that evening, in the headlights, beside the road, a cougar and 2 cubs, the first one I've ever seen, and the next morning and evening I see glimpses of it again. It kind of makes you a bit nervous about spreading out your blanket and sleeping, this is a little bit close to where I've been spending the night, never one to set up a tent I just might have to start...
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