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explaining the pieces to a latecomer

Kim: Hey! Those are only rumours!! You can't believe everything you read!!

Diyani (barely under her breath) Or apparently everything you see!!

Everyone (in unison): Mmmhmmm.........

Anthony explains the artist that inspired the pieces of art his piece was inspired by...

  

Photo by Chris

Ioannina, Epirus, Greece. Shot with a Canon F1 with Canon FD 50mm 1.2L lens, on Kodak Trix 400 at f1.2 1/60. Developed with D76 and scanned using a Minolta Dimage Multi II.

This is the building where Shockley Semiconductors started Silicon Valley. It has seen better days. Spike tries to explain its meaning to his son.

This explains why I love flickr. The only interaction that I ever have with my WebShots photo account is this weekly email with statistics. I always asked the questions: "Who is viewing my photos?"

"Why are they viewing my photos?"

"Do the people who view my photos like them?"

"Why are my photos being downloaded?"

"What happens to my photos after they are downloaded?"

"Is WebShots making money off of my photos?" (Which is OK because they didn't give me a limit on space after I paid for an account.)

 

Just nagging questions--People Just Want to Know.

this conspiracy against me? & tell me how i've lost my power..

 

Tomé todo mi dinero y me escapé, directo hacia el valle de la Gran División, allí donde se esconden todos los sueños. Ahí donde el viento no sopla, Ahí donde las buenas chicas mueren & no caerá nieve del cielo..

Ahí donde los pájaros no cantan

Ahí donde los campos no crecen

Ahí donde las campanas no suenan.. ♥

 

Un sucio cuento de hadas- the killers.

My dear colleague Gregory Hervelin from NotForProduction recorded this beautifully-illustrated motion picture in which I explain the digital process used to create the symbiotic mutants.

 

You can watch it here: www.symbi0sis.net/news/video/newsvideo.htm

Explaining how a hotshoe flash and a simple umbrella modifier can produce beautiful photos.

 

more info. on www.knmphoto.com.au/blog

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FREE [DOWNLOAD] Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation Full Book

 

Chief/Contracting Officer for the Commodity Procurement Branch, Duane Williams (left) explains the meat procurement program to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in the kitchen of the Agricultural Marketing Service on Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Washington Post reporter, Jane Black(right), takes notes. Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) purchases a variety of food products in support of the National School Lunch program and other Federal Feeding programs. These purchases help to stabilize prices in agricultural commodity markets by balancing supply and demand. Some of the foods purchased under these programs include fruits and vegetables, beef and pork, poultry and egg products, and fish.

4-H is a global network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development." They do this by learning through service. A 4-H group known as the O.W.L.S., Outdoor Wildlife Leadership Service, visited Brandon Spring Group Center at Land Between The Lakes in May 2016. O.W.L.S. educates kids on a variety of outdoor, survival, and identification skills. These include wildlife tracking, studying avian populations, Dutch oven cooking, and ice cream making. These 4-H’ers planted a butterfly garden, weeded flowerbeds, and helped with trail work and maintenance projects. Photo by Brian Truskey

Smena 8M

Kodak UltraMax 400

 

Title from Explain by Oneohtrix Point Never

I was partly right . . .

 

The pyramidal objects at the edge of the bottom stairs depicted Zoroastrian fire temples!

Check out the new layout for our weekly business owner newsletter.

Styleframe from a video I made about bitcoin.

 

vimeo.com/63502573

A student explains why Flipped Mastery has helped her to become a confident and competent math student.

Two doctors explaining to a patient her medical condition.

 

[url=http://www.istockphoto.com/search/lightbox/9786662][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40117171/medicine.jpg[/img][/url]

  

George Johnson, our instructor in Visual Story, describes our first visual story assignment:

 

Create a interactive story using still frames.

Refuge biologists explain telemetry and monitoring of turtles and other animals to CDIPs.

 

Credit: Lamar Gore/USFWS

The government put a lot of money in promoting the use of public transport. On the other hand this tram promotes new car sales. Hmmm....

© Henk Graalman

Interesting graphical chart from the past demonstrating Seattle's winds, sunlight, etc ...

Explaining the story behind the Winter Giant (quoted from the Beautiful Creatures theatre arts group web site): "On a busy bustling Saturday just before Christmas when the streets are full of shoppers, a huge 6-metre [20-foot] high giant will wander, lost and alone, looking for a place to call home. Who will welcome him? What community will give him shelter? The Winter Giant tells the story of anyone who has ever been lost and looking for shelter. The story speaks of our common humanity, of the importance of welcoming people, and of the desire amongst all humans to live in a safe and warm community. As the puppet travels through Broad Street he will meet a series of ‘buskers’, made up of some of Reading’s finest musicians who will accompany the action." Reading, Berkshire, UK, 19-Dec-2015.

Dick Sullivan explains the worlds second photographic process. It has to do with tree resin. Dick is well known in the alt process community and has written books, led workshops, and is the Sullivan half of Bostick & Sullivan, among the worlds premier suppliers to alt and historic process practitioners.

this page has dimentional stickers and the description for the rockport mermaid.

Explaining to mom why he plans on becoming a pro surfer.

Jon Magnuson, Executive Director of the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan

906-2285494

magnusonx2@charter.net

www.earthkeepersup.org

www.cedartreeinstitute.org

 

EarthKeepers II (EK II) Project Coordinator Kyra Fillmore Ziomkowski explains creating 30 interfaith community gardens (2013-2014) across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that include vegetables and native species plants that encourage and help pollinators like bees and butterflies.

 

The video was shot on April 5, 2013 at the Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast in Big Bay, MI during a meeting of EK II representatives.

 

An Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative Across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Restore Native Plants and Protect the Great Lakes from Toxins like Airborne Mercury in cooperation with the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, U.S. Forest Service, 10 faith traditions and Native American tribes such as Keweenaw Bay Indian Community

 

10 faiths: Roman Catholic" "Episcopal" "Jewish" "Lutheran" "Presbyterian" "United Methodist" "Bahá'í" "Unitarian Universalist" "American Friends" "Quaker" "Zen Buddhist" "

 

EK II website

EarthKeepersUP.org

 

Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute

Marquette, MI

www.CedarTreeInstitute.org

 

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

www.greatlakesrestoration.us

www.epa.gov

 

Deborah Lamberty

Program Analyst

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Great Lakes National Program Office

Chicago, IL

 

Lamberty.Deborah@epa.gov

312-886-6681

 

Pastor Albert Valentine II

Manistique, MI

Manistique Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer

Gould City Community Presbyterian Church

Presbytery of Mackinac

www.presbymac.org

 

Rev. Christine Bergquist

Bark River United Methodist Church

First UMC of Hermansville

United Methodist Church Marquette District

www.mqtdistrict.com

 

Rev. Elisabeth Zant

Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church

Munising, MI

www.edenevangelical.org

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Northern Great Lakes Synod

www.nglsynod.org

 

Heidi Gould

Marquette, MI

Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation

www.mqtuu.org

twitter.com/Heidi_Gould

 

Rev. Pete Andersen

Marquette, MI

ELCA

 

Helen Grossman

Temple Beth Sholom

Jewish Synagogue

 

Rev. Stephen Gauger

Calvary Lutheran Church

Rapid River, MI

ELCA

 

Jan Schultz, Botanist

U.S. Forest Service (USFS)

Eastern Region 9

EK II Technical Advisor for Community Gardens

Milwaukee, WI

 

USFS

www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/nativegardening

www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers

www.wildlifeforever.org

 

Pollinator photos by Nancy Parker Hill

www.nancyhillphoto.com

 

Rev. David Van Kley, Senior Pastor

Rev. Amanda Kossow, Associate Pastor

www.marquettelutherans.org

 

Messiah Lutheran Church

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Marquette, Michigan

 

Rev. David Van Kley, Senior Pastor

Rev. Amanda Kossow, Associate Pastor

www.marquettelutherans.org

  

NMU EK II Student Team

Katelin Bingner

Tom Merkel

Adam Magnuson

 

EK II social sites

www.youtube.com/EarthKeepersII

vimeo.com/EarthKeepersII

EarthKeepersII.blogspot.com

EarthKeepersII.wordpress.com

www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII

www.twitter.com/EarthKeeperTeam

pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII

pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/Great-Lakes-Restoration-Init...

pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/EarthKeepers-II-and-the-EPA-...

Lake Superior Zendo

Zen Buddhist Temple

Marquette, Michigan

 

Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg

906 226-6407

plehmber@nmu.edu

 

Dr. Michael Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI

Helen Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI

906-475-4009 (hm)

906-475-4127 (wk)

www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org

www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org/tikkun

www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org/aboutus

 

Wild Rice: 8 videos

www.learningfromtheearth.org/video-interviews/wild-rice-m...

 

Birch – 2 videos

www.learningfromtheearth.org/video-interviews/paper-birch...

 

Photos (click on each name or topic to see the respective photo galleries):

www.learningfromtheearth.org/photo-gallery

 

www.picasaweb.google.com/Yoopernewsman/JonReport?authuser...

www.picasaweb.google.com/100329402090002004302/JonReport?...

 

“Albert Einstein speculated once that if bees disappeared off the surface of the earth, then humans would have only four years of life left.”

the late Todd Warner, KBIC Natural Resource Director

 

Links:

 

Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project website:

www.wingsandseeds.org

 

Cedar Tree Institute: Zaagkii Project

www.cedartreeinstitute.org/2010/07/wings-seeds-zaagkii-pr...

www.cedartreeinstitute.org/2009/01/wings-seeds-the-zaagki...

 

Zaagkii Project Videos on youtube (also uploaded to dozens of internet sites):

www.youtube.com/ZaagkiiTV

 

KBIC Pollinator Preservation

www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/0...

Zaagkii Project Indigenous Plants Help Give New Face to Sand Point on Keweenaw Bay www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/0...

 

Zaagkii Project 2010: U.S. Forest Service & Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoq5xXHDF4E

United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Project featured on Pollinator Live

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P3DPfxx7Jw

 

2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #9: Teens Painting Mason Bee Houses in Northern Michigan

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIV6jrlT20

 

2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #8: Marquette, Michigan Teens Build Mason Bee Houses

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MBfV7ION8

 

Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q

 

2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #6: "The Butterfly Lady" Susan Payant teaches teens about Monarchs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIgsuTFSuM

 

2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #5: Terracotta half-life, Marquette, MI band supports environment projects

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlFCHwW30o

 

2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150,000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4MEzM7w4

 

2009 Zaagkii Video #3: Michigan teens give away mason bee houses, honor supporters

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqfWeEgDxTY

 

2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Historic KBIC native plants greenhouse, USFS protects pollinators

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8H5nhvzzc

 

2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Students make bee houses, plant native species plants

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jqJAQyXwE

 

Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q

 

Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinators

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPJOXHt7pI

 

Zaagkii Project – Northern Michigan University:

www.webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSectio...

 

Native Village stories: Beautiful Layout by Owner Gina Boltz:

Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: A Project by Ojibwe Students from the Keweenah Bay Indian Community

www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...

 

NMU Students Join Pollinator Protection Initiative

www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...

 

KBIC Tribal youth protect pollinators

www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...

 

Teens Help with Sweet Nature Project

www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...

 

USFS Success Stories:

Restoring Native Plants on the Enchanted Island

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6274

 

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plant Greenhouse & Workshop

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499

  

Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting a Success

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6276

 

New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336

  

Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076

 

Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025

 

News Stories:

U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants

www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?...

 

Effort to protect pollinators launched

www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html

 

Marquette Monthly (Sept. 2009):

www.mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html

 

As bees die, Keweena Bay Indian Community adults, teens actively protect pollinators

www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view...

 

Michigan Teens Build Butterfly Houses and Plant 26,000 Native Plants through the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project

www.treehugger.com/culture/michigan-teens-build-butterfly...

 

Examples of numerous Gather.com articles with lots of photos/videos:

 

Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth are protecting pollinators by building butterfly houses and planting native plants

www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977550233

 

Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators

www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977428640

 

2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in 2010 to build first Native American native species plants greenhouse on tribal property in U.S.

www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040745

 

2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Northern Michigan Teens Protect Pollinators with U.S. Forest Service, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, NMU Center for Native American Studies: Build mason bee houses, butterfly houses, distribute thousands of native species plants

www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040729

 

Zaagkii Project Internet sites – blogs, photos, videos etc.:

 

ZaagkiiProject on flickr

www.flickr.com/photos/zaagkiiproject

www.flickr.com/people/zaagkiiproject

 

Zaagkii on youtube:

www.youtube.com/ZaagkiiTV

 

Zaagkii on bliptv:

www.zaagkiitv.blip.tv

 

Zaagkii on word press:

www.zaagkiiproject.wordpress.com

 

Zaagkii on Blogger:

www.zaagkiiproject.blogspot.com

 

Zaagkii on Photobucket:

www.photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds

www.photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds/?start=all

 

Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project website:

wingsandseeds.org

 

Cedar Tree Institute: Zaagkii Project

cedartreeinstitute.org/2010/07/wings-seeds-zaagkii-project

cedartreeinstitute.org/2009/01/wings-seeds-the-zaagkii-pr...

 

Zaagkii Project Videos on youtube (also uploaded to dozens of internet sites):

www.youtube.com/ZaagkiiTV

 

KBIC Pollinator Preservation

indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/08/15...

Zaagkii Project Indigenous Plants Help Give New Face to Sand Point on Keweenaw Bay indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/09/03...

 

Zaagkii Project 2010: U.S. Forest Service & Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoq5xXHDF4E

United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Project featured on Pollinator Live

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P3DPfxx7Jw

 

2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #9: Teens Painting Mason Bee Houses in Northern Michigan

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIV6jrlT20

 

2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #8: Marquette, Michigan Teens Build Mason Bee Houses

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MBfV7ION8

 

Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q

 

2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #6: "The Butterfly Lady" Susan Payant teaches teens about Monarchs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIgsuTFSuM

 

2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #5: Terracotta half-life, Marquette, MI band supports environment projects

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlFCHwW30o

 

2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150,000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4MEzM7w4

 

2009 Zaagkii Video #3: Michigan teens give away mason bee houses, honor supporters

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqfWeEgDxTY

 

2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Historic KBIC native plants greenhouse, USFS protects pollinators

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8H5nhvzzc

 

2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Students make bee houses, plant native species plants

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jqJAQyXwE

 

Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q

 

Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinators

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPJOXHt7pI

 

Zaagkii Project – Northern Michigan University:

webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/A...

 

Native Village stories: Beautiful Layout by Owner Gina Boltz:

Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: A Project by Ojibwe Students from the Keweenah Bay Indian Community

www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...

 

NMU Students Join Pollinator Protection Initiative

www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...

 

KBIC Tribal youth protect pollinators

www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...

 

Teens Help with Sweet Nature Project

www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...

 

USFS Success Stories:

Restoring Native Plants on the Enchanted Island

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6274

 

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plant Greenhouse & Workshop

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499

 

Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting a Success

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6276

 

New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336

 

Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076

 

Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025

 

News Stories:

U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants

www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?...

 

Effort to protect pollinators launched

www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html

 

Marquette Monthly (Sept. 2009):

mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html

 

As bees die, Keweena Bay Indian Community adults, teens actively protect pollinators

nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...

 

Michigan Teens Build Butterfly Houses and Plant 26,000 Native Plants through the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project

www.treehugger.com/culture/michigan-teens-build-butterfly...

 

Examples of numerous Gather.com articles with lots of photos/videos:

 

Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth are protecting pollinators by building butterfly houses and planting native plants

www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977550233

 

Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators

www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977428640

 

2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in 2010 to build first Native American native species plants greenhouse on tribal property in U.S.

www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040745

 

2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Northern Michigan Teens Protect Pollinators with U.S. Forest Service, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, NMU Center for Native American Studies: Build mason bee houses, butterfly houses, distribute thousands of native species plants

www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040729

 

Zaagkii Project Internet sites – blogs, photos, videos etc.:

 

ZaagkiiProject on flickr

www.flickr.com/photos/zaagkiiproject

www.flickr.com/people/zaagkiiproject

 

Zaagkii on youtube:

www.youtube.com/ZaagkiiTV

 

Zaagkii on bliptv:

www.zaagkiitv.blip.tv

 

Zaagkii on word press:

zaagkiiproject.wordpress.com

 

Zaagkii on Blogger:

zaagkiiproject.blogspot.com

 

Zaagkii on Photobucket:

photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds

photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds/?start=all

Researchers explains points to training participants on cowpea alley cropping system. Photo by IITA. (file name: RCM_516). ONLY low res available.

This is a very special project, just let me explain.

 

The table cloth on this picture is the very last thing on which my Mum was working just before she died in May 2002. Well, actually she had to set the embroidery aside a couple of weeks before that. I guess it must have become really too hard on her around March, just before her birthday. I don't really remember and in fact the exact moment does not really matter. What I do remember is how painful and difficult it was for her to breathe, eat or simply sit on the sofa. She had kidney cancer and the last months of her life were truly dreadful. For her obviously - but also for my brother, for her friends and for myself.

 

As it shows, she was a very good embroiderer. There are of course imperfections in the stitches, but she was taking tons of drugs at that time : cortisone, morphine and hundreds of other things with uggly names on the boxes. I still can't believe how she could manage to do what she did with a tiny needle and some thread. She knew she was dying and I can only imagine how it felt for her to work on this piece, not knowing for sure if she'd have the time to finish it or not. But she must have known that even if she finished it, there would be no birthday meals on it, no tea parties with friends, just maybe some drawer in her son's or daughter's house. A sort of reminder, kind of.

 

Or perhaps she just wanted to keep her spirits high, suffering that much and facing the terrible truth that summer would not shine for her anymore. She was a fantastically brave woman all her life so it's no wonder she kept being brave until the very last moment of it. I've always tryed to focus on this message she was giving : where there's life, there should always be hope. And creativity.

 

Well, when she died, I emptied the house and stored everything in my place. My brother was not ready to split her things and I waited for almost 4 years before he could find the strength to decide what was to be kept and what was not. This is why the table cloth stayed a long time in her embroidery basket, untouched.

 

Two years ago, I tried to take it out. But it was really a bad, bad, bad time at the time and I couldn't unfold it. All I could do was try to wash it, because it was still stinking morphine and I just couldn't stand it. All the pattern lines went out, but the rust stains remained. So I folded it again and put it back in her basket.

 

And this Saturday, it started snowing. This winter reminds me so much of the winter before she died. Same weather, same snow. My embroidery class was cancelled, due to very poor traffic condition. As I was sitting in my armchair, wondering what I'd do, it struck me that it could be time for me to finish Mum's last embroidery work.

 

I took it out, copied the pattern, transfered it on the table cloth and started filling the empty zones with the best matching thread I could find.

 

These are the unedited pictures of the work. I think I'll give Mum's last embroidery to my brother for Christmas. I have other embroidered works from my Mum, and I think it would be nice for him to keep this one, in memoriam.

Sokun explaining significance of some of the carvings

How does one explain, with a photograph, the truly awe inspiring experience of tens of thousands of Ross’ Geese flying out to begin their morning? They say a picture is worth a thousand words but I don’t think a thousand words could do justice to the experience, nor does this photo. I really wanted my 11-year-old son to experience nature in one of its most awesome displays. We were not disappointed. When the mass of Ross’s geese flew over our heads, as far as the eye could see, was Ross’s Geese. The only thought I had other than utter total wonderment was, that I sure wish I were wearing a hat. The massive fly-ins and fly-outs of the Ross's Geese and the Lesser Sandhill Cranes made this experience one that my son and I will not forget having shared, for the rest of our lives. Truly something every nature lover should experience.

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