Digby's Trail Guy/ Kejimkujik interpreter - playing between impossible & inevitable - canoeing, hiking, running the woods, looking for lichen, healing and haiku
Nova Scotia
Joined November 2007
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here’s some coral lichen on a hemlock on the shore of Goldsmith Lake - lacey !! @infomorning
@portiaclarkcbc
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sunset
with pitewey and the songs
of u’lukwej
(sound on for video!)
U’lukwej is one of those Mi’kmaq words you can almost guess … which animal of mi’kma’ki says “uu-lu”?
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with a layer of freezing rain underneath — “pretty” they said. “Pretty fun race conditions” I replied. #trailrunning #tobogganrun #yeehaw #coffee
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Scaly Fringe lichen, newly listed as threatened, has scaly little lobe ends (squamules) while its close cousin Neglected Fringe has grainy clumps (soralia). You usually need hand lens to be sure. Today I found Scaly with Shaggy Fringe Lichen (darker). #lichen #speciesatrisk
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Tusket Frenchies haiku
bought 8 used books:
“Clear Clutter with feng shui”
just for the irony! – at Digby, Nova Scotia
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Digby’s 6 & 12k trail race kicks off the spring #trailrunning season APRIL 15, 2023 at Van Tassel Lake.
The Lily Lake Lollygag is $25 or pay-what-you-can — more info on the FB page: facebook.com/100064166881659… – at Digby, Nova Scotia
Spent 4 hours shooting with @ottgalek ystrdy on the Van Tassel Lake Trails - she thought the trails were beautiful then. But maybe she was a day early?
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a PUFF of PINK
elfin slowmo fireworks
ooo — aaahh
Sclerophora peronella or Frosted Glass Whisker Lichen in English. these tiny stubble lichens grow on the rotting (but not yet truly rotten) heartwood of Red Maples - usually in damp swampy wetlands.
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A beautiful day though 90% of it was struggling through Fiona-wrought devastation — this storm has changed huge swaths of the Cobequids forever/ foreseeable future – at Colchester, Subd. A, Nova Scotia
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Celebrating the Solstice in Digby with the Lazy Bear Runners on our 2022 Rudolph Run! – at Digby, Nova Scotia
Frosted Glass Whisker lichen deep in the swirly wood, a knothole of an old lakeside maple (Sclerophora peronella).
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The Phone of the Wind does take some explaining - really grateful to @eilishbonang and @globalhalifax for the opportunity to take about this tool intended to help people with their grief -
globalnews.ca/video/9314413/… – at Digby, Nova Scotia
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More info on the trail and the phone at:
digbytrails.ca/phone-of-the-… – at Digby, Nova Scotia
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The Phone of the Wind at Van Tassel Lake near Digby is for people to call loved ones who have passed away – a way of maintaining the connection, having one more conversation, or working through grief.
saltwire.com/atlantic-canada… – at Digby, Nova Scotia