Fieldnotes: Koffler Scientific Reserve Jokers Hill

Last week, on the 17th, I joined the Naturalists' Training Course for the afternoon. We spent a couple of hours in the classroom, learni...

I walked over to the research barn around 9:00 this morning, to check the weather. CBC had announced a winter storm watch...

Back at Jokers Hill on a rainy April day—with ice pellets threatened for later. Though in fact the day, at nearly noon, i...

My last two posts have been texts -- and to balance that today I'm posting mostly pictures. They were all taken within the last week, an...

The title to this post is a line from poet John Clare (1793-1864). The line continues  “and only wrote them down.” I’ve been thi...

The word “metaphor” has travelled quite a distance. It comes to us from Middle English, arriving via Old French, Latin, and, originally, G...