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Genealogical Giant Steps
Arctic Report Card 2012
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Environment

  • Arctic Report Card 2012
    Arctic Report Card 2012

    Did you see the release by NOAA of the Arctic Report Card this week? No surprises in many ways.  Record low sea ice extent in 2012.  Accelerating melt of Greenland [...]

  • Arctic Sea Ice -- How low in 2012?
    Arctic Sea Ice — How low in 2012?

      The melt of Arctic sea ice is well underway for another summer.  The National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado publishes the above chart regularly.  They note the [...]

  • Winter has Arrived
    Winter has Arrived

    After an extended warm and dry period through December and some of January, winter arrived this week with a little sow and a lot of cold. It has been interesting [...]

Genealogy

  • Genealogical Giant Steps
    Genealogical Giant Steps

    This past summer I spoke with my wife’s Aunt Jean at her 90th birthday party.  A special treat to celebrate such a birthday!  I was trying to trace her ancestors [...]

  • Genealogy

    I have started to load up my records regarding my family genealogy on the web site. I have been fortunate to have received records from other family members over time. [...]

Photography

  • Antelope Canyon

    In the Spring, 2012, a friend and I travelled to southern Utah and northern Arizona for a week of photography.  We visited Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona one day.  We [...]

  • Galleries
    Galleries

    I have added a new section to my web-site to enable me to post more of my photos more easily.  I stopped paying for flickr service some time ago as [...]

  • Impressionism
    Impressionism

    I went down to the local pond tonight to try to take pictures of the pelicans.  A large group of them (maybe 15) have settled in for the summer.  They [...]

Travels

  • A Visit to Scottsdale
    A Visit to Scottsdale

    We visited downtown Scottsdale today – to go to the market and then to see some the downtown. It is interesting to see the downtown of a city practically completely [...]

  • Antelope Canyon

    In the Spring, 2012, a friend and I travelled to southern Utah and northern Arizona for a week of photography.  We visited Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona one day.  We [...]

  • Night shots in New York
    Night shots in New York

    While visiting New York, I carried a small Canon camera during the evening and used it to capture a few night shots.  It has much better low-light sensitivity than my [...]