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Meditation at 20,000 Feet
The following is lightly edited from notes written last week, as I travelled westward on a flight from Fredericton to Toronto. Across northern Maine and southern Québec, those ever-changing landforms...
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Golden Hour at Churchill
Scenes from Northern Summers (5) In photography, “golden hour” is the interval just before sunset or just after sunrise, in which photographs are enhanced by the low angle and golden quality of light....
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What Geologists Share: Fieldwork and the Four Dimensions
If you visit this page occasionally, you will have noticed that I have posted very little since last spring. This interval correlates rather precisely with my term as President of the Geological...
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Going to Pieces on the Shore
Indian Point, Saint Andrews, New Brunswick: July-August, 2017 The tide is still going out. Off the point, the gulls squabble among themselves in the wake of a passing boat. A guillemot floats on the...
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A Certain Logic
Churchill, Manitoba: August, 2015 The careful juxtaposition of the picnic table and sign must have required a very special sort of thinking. You are in danger if you walk in this area, but yes, it...
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Leaving the Sea Behind
La Pocatière, Québec: August, 2018 On any trip to the coast, there will always come that day when we must leave the sea behind us, catching the last glimmer of blue water in the rearview mirror as we...
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Ghost Streams on the Shore
Saint Andrews, New Brunswick: August, 2018 Beds of the Perry Formation in Pottery Cove, Saint Andrews, New Brunswick. Rocks are physical ghosts. If a ghost is a disembodied spirit or a nebulous image...
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The Other Side
Saint Andrews, New Brunswick: August, 2018 Basalt and seaweed at Bar Road, Saint Andrews If you travel in the natural world, you have probably noticed places where the bedrock seems to vary drastically...
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The Bones of the Earth
Rivière-du-Loup, Québec: August, 2018 This summer, while walking on the shore at Rivière-du-Loup, I was struck by the way in which the spectacular steeply-dipping sedimentary beds “dive” and become...
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A Return to Sloop Cove
Sloop Cove, Churchill, Manitoba: August, 2015 Some years ago, I wrote a post that included images of some of the 18th century graffiti at Sloop Cove, which is on the west shore of the Churchill River...
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