Science and exploration around McMurdo, Antarctica. A good week for defense. A planet orbits round a yellow sun. Light years away or megayears ago. Its seas are dark, its continent is dun. But brilliant sea ice sets its pole aglow. Its CO2 drops dangerously low.

Poetic Offshoots from the Scottish Jungle. Last week the Nazis were busy, stripping flesh and muscle from bone,. Flamethrowers burned travellers in crammed train compartments. I watched the skins go in the heat, then the veins bubble and flare,. Muscle and sinew blacken then vaporise like film on fire. This week, they were back. They crammed in through the front door. Shuffling shoulder to shoulder filling my grubby house.

This Blog Is Better In Vinyl. Not a pretty girl series. The Doctor lands in Alaska. The Saga of Erik the Red. This is not a post about Batman. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Because you deserve to get this hand-delivered to your inbox! .

To Pickle Tomatas, Cooking in the Scripps Archives Part 3. This is the third post featuring a recipe from the Earl of Roden Commonplace Book held at the Scripps College, Denison Library. Read the first post here. For information about this manuscript.

Musings about landscape, literature, art, and travel. In Places in the U. Lost Chapel at Eklutna, Alaska.