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Heads or Tails?
14 Dec 2025

Heads or Tails?

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Science and Reason | 0

Click on the flipped coin to see who wins….

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Lucky Penny, Penny, Coin, Tails, Folklore, Penny Lane, Birch Cent, No Shoulder Fold Penny
When the Light Left Procyon
4 Dec 2025

When the Light Left Procyon

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Science and Reason | 0

A dog passed by today, riding a unicorn.

Click the image on the left to see if I am telling the truth, or if there was too much Bailey’s in my coffee this morning…

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light years, Constellation, Procyon, Wolf
Phantasmagorically
31 Oct 2025

Phantasmagorically

by Russ Paton | Posted in: History, Science and Reason | 2

Kids should not read this, nor should some adults…

Click on the witch for 18+ details….

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Halloween, Broomstick, Witchcraft, Pharmacy, Hallucinogen, Witch, Broom
That Funky Smell
24 Aug 2025

That Funky Smell

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Science and Reason | 7

Moses purportedly lived for 120 years.

Click on the prophet for some advice on ageing …

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Ageing, Elderly, Moses, Psalm 90
Do-Si-Do
1 Aug 2025

Do-Si-Do

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, Science and Reason | 0

Sometimes we waltz, sometimes we two-step, but always we move to a rhythm.

Click on Fred or Ginger for details….

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Death, Life, Dance, Square Dance, Patricia Paton, Manitou Beach
Communion
20 Jul 2025

Communion

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Science and Reason, Travel | 13

A Saskatchewan town, with a Fransaskois accent.

Click on the Bishop’s Palace for details…..

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Saskatchewan, CFRG, Gravelbourg, Bishop's Palace, English, Culture, Cathedral, Larry Bekker, Church, Catholic, Protestant, French
Grief, Manifest as a Tree
25 May 2025

Grief, Manifest as a Tree

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Science and Reason, Travel | 2

Cypress trees symbolize mourning, death and transition.

Click on the weathered face of the forest for details

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Dr Gred Powell, Cypress Hills, Lodgepole Pine, Grief, Mourning, Trees, Cypress, Dean Guest
Four Billion Years in Three Hours
15 May 2025

Four Billion Years in Three Hours

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Science and Reason | 0

How the Earth and everything on it came to be, from cell to civilization.

Click on the DNA double helix for details….

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Anthropology, Alice Roberts, Paleopathology, Evolution, The Story of Us
Frugs
20 Apr 2025

Frugs

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, Science and Reason | 0

Quacking while copulating is a clever survival technique.

Click on the amorous Wood Frogs for details….

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Wood Frog, Frog, Boreal Chorus Frog, Brumation, Pond
The Most Interesting Person I Never Met
26 Mar 2025

The Most Interesting Person I Never Met

by Russ Paton | Posted in: Family History, History, Science and Reason | 0

There is no way to stand in a graveyard with a shovel, without feeling conspicuous.

Click on any winter tombstone for details…

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Ethel, Graveyard, Phillipson, Ethel Phillipson, Rosedale, Cemetery

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    Liz, How adventurous! Neither Timbuktu, nor Russian aircraft, are accessible these days. You are fortunate to have made the trip…

  2. elizabeth Seale on Timbuktu and Tuktoyaktuk2 March 2026

    Russ: I am lucky to have been to both Timbuktu in 2000 and Tuk in about 2019. We actually drove…

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    Thank You Liz, A friend of Autumn's is a friend of mine....

  4. elizabeth Seale on Tin Foil Underwear2 March 2026

    Great piece. I was very fond of your dad and I see you have inherited his skill with words. Liz…

  5. Russ Paton on Taphephobia1 March 2026

    Now, there’s a topic for another time! 🤩

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