A Red-headed Woodpecker perched on a fallen log along the nature trail. This particular Woodpecker chases away Red-bellied Woodpeckers and the much larger Pileated Woodpeckers from the bird's wintering territory. Red-headed Woodpeckers cache food, so this bird was likely protecting his/her food.
A board-and-batten wall with white boards ornamented by light yellow battens is pierced by a dark Gothic arch, within which a colourful bouquet of flowers seems to float.
Saint Andrews United Baptist Church, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, 1865.
#MarchArch
Ooh, that is delightful!
One of the male Red-winged Blackbirds in my backyard flying over the marsh. The rusty fringe to his feathers (seen here mostly on the back) will soon drop off as he changes from his non-breeding plumage into his breeding plumage.
A male Eastern Bluebird heading out to follow a female Bluebird.
Hound in Field
Alex Colville
1958
A curving wooden staircase rises from a wooden floor within a teardrop-shaped opening to several floors above.
Calgary Central Library, Snøhetta and DIALOG, 2013-18.
#StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs
panels of birchbark with embroidered images of strawberries and people gathering them
Some 19th-century Mi'gmaw embroidery, done on birchbark with moosehair. It depicts strawberries, and women dressed in their fancy ceremonial dress gathering strawberries (the fruit is medicine associated with women, renewal, and the heart).
I heard a Pileated Woodpecker hammering away but wasn't able to locate him at first. I spotted him when he leaned to the side; he was directly on the other side of the tree.
White Poppy against a blue background
'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth
March Birch
Alexandrya Eaton
2018
On the blog ... Another open letter about NS's cuts to its museum program, this one by John Reid (Prof. Emeritus SMU) and M. Brook Taylor (Prof. Emeritus MSVU): acadiensis.wordpress...
A male Eastern Bluebird scanning the leaf litter from his perch before diving down to hunt insects.
A male Red-winged Blackbird patrolling the marsh.
Hiver
Goodridge Roberts
1960
Light at dawn.
My recipe for my first #StainedGlassSunday contribution to BlueSky:
Begin with stained glass. Add sunlight, Lincoln Cathedral, and stir. Blend the material with the immaterial.
New collection coming very soon—Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920.
Comprising over 55,000 document images, it charts the evolution of witchcraft and magic in England over five centuries.
Learn more at britishonlinearchives.com/collections/....
Maple Syrup Time
Maud Lewis
c. 1960
A male Pileated Woodpecker launches from one tree to head to another.
The visible song of a male Red-winged Blackbird in the morning light.
Arts, culture and local publishing in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...
The @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social version of "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean" is out today! It includes an audiobook, which I recorded last December at a sound studio here in Washington, DC. Now you can read or listen to the book, even if you live outside of the US and Canada. #History 1/2
A Dark-eyed Junco (slate-colored subspecies) hopping along the nature trail. They are one most common birds in North America, and a lovely winter visitor here in southeast Michigan.
It is #BlackHistoryMonth. Isaac Willoughby (fl. 1760–1834) was an enslaved Black man who bought his freedom in about 1796. His petitions to the Nova Scotia government offer a glimpse of life as a freed Black person in the colonial Maritimes. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/willo... #BHM
It’s officially pub day for this incredible work! Thank you to Oscar de la Torre for making this possible!!
And thank you to CUNY DSI for research consults and permission to use your images in my work!!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...
Two - count 'em - two jobs at UPEI - one in History (specifically aimed at Atlantic Canada) and one in English (which could be Atlantic Canadian!).
www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...
www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...
What if the American Revolution was also a supply‑chain crisis? This post rethinks independence through the lens of logistics, scarcity, and survival—using Nova Scotia (1783–1794) as a revealing case study.
👉 Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/23/a...
«The Black men (incl. Harry Grant, Richard Houldin &Henry McEvoy), part of 104th NB Regiment of Foot, left Fredericton Feb. 16, 1813, followed banks of Saint John, Madawaska &St. Lawrence rivers &reached Kingston in April, bolstering Canadian defences against impending US invasion in War of 1812.»
In this closely drawn biography of Acadian New Brunswick premier Louis J. Robichaud, Donald Savoie provides a portrait of a man uniquely able to meet the need for difficult and enduring political and societal change.
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