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Treasure in British Columbia
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Lost
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Inspired, no doubt, by the recent trip to BC, the Yukon and Alaska I've been looking at going prospecting myself.
While searching about for places to explore I stumbled upon this website:
Link: http://www.bc-alter.net/dfriesen/treasureleads.html
yeah, it smacks of a badly written children's book, but in a way it's kind of exciting. Inspiring, even. Which will have me searching more treasure leads in BC, it's a long winter until spring...
Corks & Buttons
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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2 More links on the theme of "The Medium is the Message".
http://scottgundersen.tumblr.com/ - Who produces art out of old wine corks. I knew there was a reason I was saving my corks.
And there's this video on Vimeo in which artist Ashley Hackshaw creates a portrait of Frida Kahlo out of buttons - time laspe photography shows how she did it. I've seen better, but it's good to watch the process.
Owls, Marten, Partridges
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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And back just a few days when the cat - exploring a pile of wood on the constantly-repaired parking lot - discovers a strange animal. Dark brown fur, long of body - a weasel, but not quite, and so I look it up. It's a marten. Cute, perhaps a bit out of the cat's league...
And there's a family of partridges - they seem to return every year, 8 this year, they fly and land on the power poles, explore the grass in the condo complex, at work too much to know if they're now regulars or were just passing through.
Tonight - last time for a week to watch the sunset, go up to Nose Hill. And as the sun sets there's an owl that prowls about my head, diving and swooping in the grass, circling above my bench, curious. The net extent of wildlife upon my return.
Back
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And finally back from the vacation and readjusting to life at work.
The vacation, thanks for asking, was terrific - whetted my appetite for all things wild and places unexplored. And there are pages - dozens - to be written up as posts - The Yukon, Alaska, and the drear murder of back-to-work. But these will come in time. For the moment I'm back.
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