Christmas Cards -- by Eugene Reimer 2006-Dec-19

2006:

2007:

Father Edouard Banville (Padre Eduardo Banville) wrote from the Dominican Republic:  Hola Eugene, thanks for the wishes and I presume that the attached are snowflakes...

Les Wiens wrote:  The image is fascinating - is this a plotting from an equation?

For more info on the Koch Snowflake see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake.

2008:

A small subset of responses:

Howard Ferch wrote:  I hope the picture isn't a self portrait.

Richard St-Pierre wrote:  I do like that bear. Perhaps it was the locoweed!

Marilynne Jackson wrote:  Did you shake his paw?

Marilynne Jackson wrote:  I passed along your bear picture to Debbie Norman; she thinks you were very brave (okay, she may have used a different word) to get out of the car.

Garnet Reimer wrote:  Did you get the shot of the young grizzly in the middle of morning dance?

Richard Tilley wrote:  Did you have to rub the bears tummy to get his back leg going?

To understand the Locoweed comment see the photo in context in 2008-07-07, or in www.nativeorchid.org/IT-InuvikTrip.htm.

2009:

A small subset of responses:

Garnet Reimer asked:  How long did you wait for the mosquito to arrive?

Henry Casper wrote:  Only way to appreciate mosquitoes -- on pictures and 30 below.

Jack Thiessen wrote: 
Seeh etj dee straume Orchidee
Deit mie nuscht nijch meea weeh
Aulet Goods toom Nieen Joah
Dee Bloome sitt'et wundaboa.

Coleen Zebeluk wrote:  What a lovely picture! I'm unable to identify the plant or insect. If I were to guess; caddisfly and blazingstar?

Linda Tseng wrote:  What a beautiful orchid. Was it a mosquito in the flower?

WR Penner wrote:  I gather there was a playful irony in the choice of bloom

Al Reimer wrote:  I thought there might be more greetings and photos on your attachment, but finally realized that I was barking up the wrong Xmas tree.

Bob Lamb & Pat MacKay wrote:  a lovely photo of an orchid, with the added interest of an insect visitor... the mosquito might be in the genus Culiseta.

Incidentally, the photo was taken in the Woodridge Bog on a NOCI fieldtrip on 2009-06-20 with a Nikon P90;  the subjects are a Ramshead ladyslipper (Cypripedium arietinum) and a mosquito of one of our larger kinds, probably one of the Culiseta species thanks to Bob & Pat.

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To contact me: ereimer@shaw.ca.