There is no precedent for what is happening now in Canada. The ongoing forest fires are obliterating all previous records. No matter which chart or graph you look at below, the message they send is shocking and alarming.
Canadian wildfires have burned more than 10 million hectares (24.7 million acres) this year, a record-breaking figure that has surpassed scientists' most pessimistic predictions, government data showed Saturday.
The prior all-time high occurred in 1989, when 7.3 million hectares were burned over the course of an entire year, according to national figures from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).
The area burned this year, in just six and a half months, is roughly equivalent to the size of Portugal or Iceland.
We've been based in Stanley for the past couple of days on our road trip round Tasmania. Today we went to Dip Falls, and they were incredible. My wife @CarolineG is a great photographer and took this shot of the bottom layer of the falls today
It’s fantastic to have a little piece of California right here in Bonn 🌳❤️
One of the great perks of living in California was being surrounded by beautiful nature everywhere 🏞️
Now, when I find myself missing the magnificent sequoias and redwoods, I love visiting the botanical garden in Bonn where they have a small section dedicated to the flora of California and the Pacific Northwest.
The Danish artist Thomas Dambo put up these large, wooden trolls all around #Denmark. They are located in various hidden or hard-to-get-to places, making them perfect as destinations for hikes (or bike rides): https://trollmap.com/#/@55.701x12.4962z10.4
I plan to visit a whole bunch of them with my son in our cargo bike during the upcoming summer holiday.
#SilentSunday
Me & my hiking friend saw only one other person out in the rains & trails, yesterday. Once you go deeper into the forest, the rain doesn't fall through the trees' canopy as much. The air smelled so good!
Do you remember Beatle boots? If you do, you've been around for a while. Beatle boots were black pointed ankle boots, made popular by the rock and roll group called the Beatles. I had to have a pair when I was in junior high school. In California during the 60s, junior high school was the 7th and 8th grades. A mop of hair and bangs that swept over the eyebrows was also "in," my problem was my blondish hair tended to want to stick straight out or straight down over my eyes and I developed a weird habit of constantly blowing the hair out of my eyes. It was incredibly silly, though I didn't realize it then, when I was just at the brink of coming of age.
"1-2-3
Oh that's how elementary.
it's gonna be ..."
-Len Barry
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
This morning is the coldest day of winter so far where I live, it's 17° (F) or -8° (C) outside It even snowed a bit yesterday, not much, just enough to frost the rooftops. The high today is 32°/0° (F/C). Almost shirt sleeve weather in Minnesota 😆.
Hmmm ... when I lived in Minnesota, many people noted that I talked funny. They thought I had a deep southern accent, which I thought was hilarious because I'm from California, originally. My Californian accent though, if there is such a thing, is tempered by decades in the military where we tended to blend. Anyway, I thought Minnesotans had accents similar to Canadians, which is subtly different from other places in the US, that I've lived the accent quickly became undistinguishable to my ears.
"There is no such thing as an ugly accent, like there's no such thing as an ugly flower." - David Crystal