A picture-perfect Saskatchewan winter day, and a song! (In lieu of a longer blog post, because too much pre-Christmas running around for that.) Enjoy! Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
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Snow business
[podcast]https://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/12/Snow-Business.mp3[/podcast] It’s hard to believe that, in 20-plus years of science column writing, I have (as far as I can tell) only ever written about snow once. After all, snow is as much a fact of life in Saskatchewan as sun, wind, and the Riders losing. Perhaps there is a psychological reason for my avoidance …
On Shovelling (a winter sonnet)
With apologies to Milton. When I consider how my morns are spent, Or half my days, in this world, dark and wide, With that snow shovel, frozen to my hide, That seems so useless, though its blade is bent To scrape so well the sidewalk, and present The bare concrete (lest postman, coming, chide, “I …
Confessions of a cyberchondriac
A few years ago I wrote several children’s books for the Diseases and People series put out by Enslow Publishers. It’s amazing when you’re writing about disease how easy it is to convince yourself you’ve got the symptoms of whatever you’re writing about. The first book was Meningitis. Stiff neck? You bet. Of course, I …
Snow slogging and photo blogging
Yesterday I photographed two of the tours from Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw. First: Lakeview. Lots of very nice houses. Lots of other scenic things to shoot, starting with Wascana Centre: As you can tell, it may be March, but it definitely ain’t spring yet: Of course there were the obvious things I …
Trudging through the snow, carrying a camera…
…was how I spent a large chunk of today. Still working on Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw, and having been stymied in my plan to do two, count ’em, two tours yesterday by snow. (Snow! In Saskatchewan! In the winter! Who’d have thunk it?) today I at least managed one, in the General …
Photo of the Day: Bohemian Waxwings
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The snow-eating robot
This seems to be my day for cute gadgets. Behold Yuki-taro, the Japanese snowplow robot. It eats the snow and turns it into compressed blocks perfect for building igloos or snow forts with. It would look great on, say, the Scarth Street Mall here in Regina. (Via Gizmodo.)
Photo of the Morning: Sunrise in the Crescents
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Photo of the Day: Davidson, Saskatchewan, 10 a.m.
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Photo of the Weekend: Contrasts
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Photo of the Day: Santa Colours
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