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It's hard to believe (and also not, sadly). I've seen some really awesome candidates that seem to be getting traction, hope it continues.

I haven't heard anything for a few weeks-- has he still not been seen?

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I often laugh when seeing films wehre characters are entering 'deep dark forest' home of mysteries and spirits-- and all the trees are not so old, planted in rows, nothing living on the ground...

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Yeah, wishing you could things in the mid-terms, and wishing us all leaders with vision beyond the bottom line.

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Nearly everyone is on board: with the craziness coming from the orange menace south of the border people are feeling defensive/aggressive! If we had more sustainable systems we'd be less vulnerable in the first place :( I hope folks are able to limit the damage those companies are doing in your area

we are doing it to our own land in Canada too, with a big push now to not worry about the environment too much because of sovereignty concerns.

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As long as we insist on constant economic growth we are doomed to destroy everything :(

Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Looks like a fine downy feather? with the shaft in the centre just visible?

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thanks, you too! (it's my working days, so it won't be nice, my real weekend starts Monday..lol)

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Well El Niño is still not appering here- looking like a moderately cool and possibly wettish week ahead (average for now is 22C/72F day 8C/46F night so this is not far off, bit wet for this time, maybe, but not too strange either) #Alberta #Canada #weather #august #ElNino

Environment Canada forecast for Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada for the week ahead from August 08 2026. Temperatures range from 23 C today to 16C mid week, with nights from 7-10C. Every day has a chance of rain day o rnight or both, with some sunny breaks on some days, percentage of possibility ranging from 30% to periods of rain.

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

2/3 Māras or Summer Maras Day is 1 of 4 days in the year devoted to Great Mother #goddess in the #Latvian tradition. 1st of 2 blog posts I wrote about the day in past years. Have a beautiful day and season ahead! #pagan #animist #summer #autumn #Alberta cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/08/summ...

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Summer Māras: Late Flowers, Bees, Berries and the Slide into Autumn + a Grumpy Bull!

(Among the ancient signs of the goddess Māra are black animals- fitting then for her day that the black bull seen above showed up just outsi...

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's the #CrossQuarterDay between Summer Solstice +Autumn Equinox. In ancient calendars this marked harvest + first hints of #Autumn season. The actual date is 06 I may do an altar or bushwalk? both? we'll see what energy + inspiration dictate! A couple of past blog posts in comments #PaganSky

An old white guy- me- standing in a late summer wetland area with thigh high golding grass and sedges, with low bushy willows, one is behind me just more than shoulder height. Farther back we see some slightly taller willlows and farther still a mesic mixed woods in front of blue sky with a few bits of wispy white cloud. The image is framed in a dull gold and the colour repeats in text that crosses the image around my waist height:
Blessed Māras!
Great Mother Day

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Also if we do get dry winter/spring it will mean an early start for fires :( But getting enough and not too much precip everywhere seems an unlikely ask...lol

Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We were very wet in June here (west of Red Deer) but no flooding. Being as this is not a wet climate overall (though no drought like east/south), and last fall was dry, winter moderate, I'm still happy for more moisture- couldn't care less about long weekends, I want to see wetlands recharged..lol

Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Feeling grateful the heat has not hit here in western Alberta yet this year, but wondering what winter and next spring will be like-- probably dry!

Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I like these Achillea varieties-- they range from a soft gold through various pinks to deep magenta on a number of plants around this half wild bed and all of them start strong and fade to softer tones.

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Maybe Yarrow Plume Moth Gillmeria pallidactyla. I only 'discovered' Plume Moths a few (handful or more?) years ago! This one was suitably on Achillea millefolium cv . Bonus shot with a Long-horned Beetle, not sure of sp. #insects #BugSky #pollinators #garden #photography #nature🌱📷🌿

Close view of a small moth perching on a mid pink Yarrow flower cluster. The odd looking moth almost looks more like an oversized mosquito or a tiny artist made model airplane. It has very narrow (folded? not sure) wingsheld straight out to the sides just behind the head, a long narrow body, and very long spindly legs with a few spikes or hairs at the joints. It is off-white with a few indistinct goldy brown stripey blotches on the wings and small regular markings along the length of the body. It is perched on a flat head of many tinyflorets which are composed of even tinier unevenly oink ray flowers (like petals) around clusters of tiny disk flowers which look like little pale mounds with bits of yellow floral parts sticking out like little worms.

A broader view shows more of the plant, the moth on one flower head and with another flower head, newer and so a deeper pink. On that second flower cluster is a beetle feeding on pollen, its body length maybe a little less than the moth's wingspread, but its body muchmore robust than the moth's. It is a dull gold with black markings on the wing cases and long black antennae.

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I mean, you could do it here ( I recommend shoes) but what's your tolerance of mosquitoes?

Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Here's a longer video, from June- wanders on the acreage and farm, butterflies, woodpeckers, bees, flowers, rain and a bit of yard and garden work. If you enjoy this, I do have others on YT youtu.be/9lGYYAuJ4FY #CountryLiving #nature #garden #pollinators #weather #vlog

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June Country Living: Cool Green Summer Days: Flowers Rain Birds Bees Butterflies

YouTube video by Cohan Magazine

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Iris chrysographes, from seed years ago, in a rather overgrown garden area (!) still making some beautiful flowers. I was wondering about #pollinators: on another day I saw small native and #bumblebees visiting. #FlowerReport #Alberta #BloomScrolling

Same alt all photos. Several views of medium tall Iris with slim stems and narrow almost grassy leaves grows out of a tangle of knee-high or taller vegetation, between two small trees/large multi-stemmed shrubs with narrow trunks mostly bare several feet up. The flowers are typical Iris flowers with several downward hanging sepals (falls) and upright central petals (standards). This is a more or less natural species form so the flower parts are rather more simple and elegant compared to ruffly overblown hybrids. The flowers are a rich deep violet, near black in shadow and brighter where the sun shines through. In the closer shots we can see that the falls are decorated with deep gold lines that radiate out from the base/centre- this is the golden (chryso) writing/drawing (graphis) that the name of the plant refers to. In one of the shots we see a tiny bee flying away from the flowers.

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

just noticed the typo- of course that should have said #pollinators

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I should show the whole clump it's pretty flashy right now..

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Ox-eye daisies are invasive here and I generally mow them- I let one patch reach full flower just for fun, and many pollniators do love them (I'll chop/pull before they seed). I think this beauty is Round-necked Longhorn Beetle Clytus ruricola #insects #nature 🌱📷 #Alberta #Canada 🌿

A striking slim beetle, mostly (nearly?) black with striking yellow line markings- if you were looking down on its back, facing away from you, the two markings at the top of the wing cases (like, between the 'shoulders') look rather like the outlines of two large droopy/cup shaped eyes, and a single line farther down looks like a frowning mouth. The beetle is perched in the yellow centre of a white daisy flower head with dark shadowed vegetation behind and part of another daisy.

A closer view we see the beetle, the centre of the flower head with the tiny golden disk flowers and only part of the white ray flowers. The beetle has golden pollen on its head.

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Thanks! It's a very dynamic time of year :)

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The summer explosion of insect life is in full swing even with cool rainy weather. This Hemipenthes #fly on Anthriscus is in the Bee-fly family, but I think of them as Stealth Flies since when seen with the naked eye they look like Stealth Bombers! #insects #FlyDay #Canada #Alberta #pollinators 📷🌱

Same alt all photos. Several views from different angles of an insect on raspberry flowers, some showing more of the plant, others zoomed and cropped quite close. At first glance, you might think you were seeing a mid-sized bumble bee, with a chunky body covered in shortish mid-gold fuzz and black and white markings on its upper to mid 'back'. On closer look there are no wings showing at rest, and we can see that the markings are in fact typical beetle hard wing cases, black with white stripes. The beetle also has very long thin segmented (not bee-like) legs and interesting antennae tipped with a tiny three part end like a little hand or antler. In one view the wing cases are beginning to lift and separate, the wings would then come out for flight (we see just a hint of a blurred moving wing in one shot).
The raspberry plant has buds and flowers over mid-green toothed and textured leaves. The flowers open with (a handful?) white petals-that I think fall off soon, leaving the greenish reflexed sepals around a mass of whitish stamens that mostly hide the central receptive parts.

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Impressive what they can learn from DNA these days! ;) :)

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I think the link to the petition is missing? or I'm missing it?

Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy Solstice to you :) Which hemisphere are you in now, North or South?

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Cohan Fulford @cohanf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

sorry for the accidental bees # I hate inappropriate hashtags..lol should have been #Butterflies Interestingly, I've seen more these Canadian tiger Swallowtails this year than usual :)