Our neighborhood is LOADED with squirrels. Almost all of them are the normal grey kind that you see everywhere. However, we do have true albino squirrel, but I don’t have a good picture of her yet. Plus our neighbor to the south has a family of smaller squirrels living somewhere on her [...]
It took a while, but I found the good picture I got of Newfoundland’s provincial flower, the pitcher plant. Here you can actually see the tube-shaped leaves where the insects get trapped. My office mate told me that he used to find these in swamp-like areas of Minnesota.
At the western edge of the Humber Arm (an ocean inlet that cuts into western Newfoundland) on the south shore is a beautiful little town called Lark Harbor. On a smaller ocean inlet, across some hills that are, I believe, a part of a provincial park, is a very quaint little sandwich shop called [...]
The Humber River goes through a major resort area in western Newfoundland, just south of Gros Morne Nat’l Park. We took a day trip to see it, the town of Corner Brook, and the Humber Arm, which is an ocean intlet that the Humber River flows into. There is one big ski area [...]
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Newfoundland has a lot of dead trees. Not sure exactly why this is, but if you look, you’ll find them anywhere, and many more than I recall seeing in most places. Places with lots of these dead (and diseased?) conifer trees feel creepy like a North American version of Transylvania (any vampires in [...]
Cape Spear, NL, has no trees. Apparently, the waves and weather can be pretty bad there which prevents trees from growing. However, there are some stunted bushes and a lot of delicate-looking little plants that hug the ground. This little flower was one such plant, although we saw it in much less [...]