tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403025007552597654.post5774784749675932778..comments2024-02-21T22:09:14.356-05:00Comments on Karstad Biodiversity Paintings: adventures in the colour of Canada: Snowy north lightAleta Karstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15900113759159760493noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403025007552597654.post-37112860219999583942008-01-19T08:16:36.000-05:002008-01-19T08:16:36.000-05:00and here's what was written in the total exhau...and here's what was written in the total exhaustion:<br><br>As each week passes, we get better and better lights. Tonight<br>(20h08-20h38, -8C, clear, force 4 wind) we tried out a variable-<br>intensity 3 million candle-power light, which Aleta had bought yesterday<br>in the Canadian Tire in Kemptville, but which didn't seem any brighter<br>than Matt Keevil's 1 million candle-power unit, which is the same model<br>as the one we've been using all fall, and which runs out of charge<br>before we're done with a Mudpuppy Night. But without much to see,<br>tonight the lights both held out until we were done.<br><br>The water was still high and surging, with 35 cm over the Vantage Point<br>ledge, and an irony-green fine turbidity evident in the deep turbulence<br>below the bridge. There's no ice cover below the dam, but fringes of<br>icicles followed the falling water level around some trees, the sod on<br>the west shore was knobby with forming ice as the waves surged into it,<br>and there were some small schools of pans in a couple of backwaters.<br>Backwaters were quite small, however, as both the east-side, and<br>especially west-side eddies were very strong. I gathered a net-full of<br>Helisoma campanulatum and Gyraulus shells from a twiggy raft that was<br>sloshing back and forth in narrow backwater below the dam on the west<br>side -- the shells were on the surface and were frozen together above<br>many of the twigs -- this is a method of concentrating shells that I<br>don't believe I've previously exploited.<br><br>Matt waded as deeply as his boots would allow, and saw a single Mudpuppy in the east eddy.fredhttp://mail.thenaturejournal.com/pipermail/naturelist_thenaturejournal.com/2008-January/003425.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403025007552597654.post-23666050413010194792008-01-19T08:20:57.000-05:002008-01-19T08:20:57.000-05:00Nice to see you back at work.Nice to see you back at work.c baynehttp://www.bayniche-conservancy.canoreply@blogger.com