Greg Shchepanek

 The Wonderful & Beautiful Tastes of Beer So I am lockdown in the home & what should I do ? Photograph my old beer bottles and share them with you. I started drinking Carling Black Label Beer way back in the late 80s. It was one of my goto beers that I discovered while just developing my tastes for the most excellent beverage beer . One of my fondest memories was hanging with my best friend John at a pub on the Thames River in East London drinking Black Label and having  chili con carne  for lunch ... it was delicious ! Genesee Beer was my most favourite American beer . When I went down to the United States of Americ a on vacation I would love to consume the golden nectar of the Genesee Brew . I didn't like the taste of most American beers but I did learn to enjoy this one. I shall always be a beer lover and I enjoy it so very much when I venture out into the city. My house is dry most of the time. I drink the beer the most but I do usually switch over t...

  The Most Friendly Red-Breasted Nuthatch Resting on a Cedar Tree a Red-breasted Nuthatch ( Sitta canadensis ) is found at the Jack Pine Trail, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This photo was the very first published in Canadian Geographic and made the short list for Canadian Wildlife Photo of the Year 2019 . This beautiful little wonder of the woods will always come for a visit while you are in the forests of North America . These guys will search you out & land on you looking for a treat. Them and the Chickadees are the most friendly little creatures found in our Canadian forests . They are always a blessing to see & hear while in the woods. They walk down the trees upside down and are marvellous to see in the wild. You know the woods are healthy when you see these little guys doing their thing. On the Boardwalk a little Red-breasted Nuthatch ( Sitta canadensis ) Jack Pine Trail, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. On a Spruce Tree a Red-breasted Nuthatch ( Sitta canadensis ) Algonqu...

  Featuring Ramsar Sites Mary's Point & Shepody Bay A Sandy Salt Marsh . Canada's 3rd Ramsar site designated— Mary's Point , New Brunswick, Canada. Ramsar site no. 236 . Shepody Bay International Shorebird Reserve . Canada's first Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve — Shepody Bay National Wildlife Area , Mary's Point , New Brunswick, Canada. Ramsar site no. 236. Shepody Bay is a tidal embayment of saltmarsh, eroding coastline with sand & gravel beaches & extensive intertidal mudflats. The mudflats support internationally important numbers of the crustacean Corophium volutator, the principle food source for millions of fall migrating shorebirds. 400,000 Calidris pusilla may be present at one time in late summer. More than two million pass through in August, as do large numbers of other shorebirds. A shorebird research station is available. Flower Pot Rocks . The Rocks Provincial Park, Shepody Bay National Wildlife Area , New Brunswick, Canada. Ramsar s...

  Dreaming of the Deserts of Arizona Rincon Mountain District Saguaro Cactus & Bee ( Carnegiea gigantea ) Saguaro National Park • Rincon Mountain District . Arizona, United States of America. Busy pollinating the large flowers of the cactus. Saguaro National Park is a large two section park, East & West of Tucson, Arizona, USA. Rincon Mountain District in the East is inundated with the large Saguaro Cacti and so the Park is apply named. The Desert Squirrels abound here & I spent hours chasing them without a successful capture to be had. But I did see a great many things in these Desert Cacti Gardens . Texas Prickly Pear Cactus ( Opuntia engelmannii ) Saguaro National Park • Rincon Mountain District . Arizona, United States of America. Hedgehog Cactus ( Echinocereus engelmannii ) Saguaro National Park • Tucson Mountain District . Arizona, United States of America. Sometimes called the Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus. American Snout Butterfly ( Libytheana carinen...

  It was a Snowy day but I was There to Play Was so very happy to find a flock of Evening Grosbeaks ( Coccothraustes vespertinus ) at the feeders of the Mer Bleue Conservation Area, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ramsar site no. 755. Appreciating Wetlands of International Importance I found myself celebrating World Wetlands Day by myself on a comfortable but snowy day. Every year I make my trek to spend this special day at the Mer Bleue Conservation Area . Ramsar site no. 755 . It turned out extra special that Ontario Parks wrote a Blog for me on my day at the wetlands all about what ? Wetlands . This had given me the idea to start Blogging that and some encouragement from Project Noah . Anyways, enjoy some photos from my adventure. A lone Common Redpoll ( Acanthis flammea ) at the feeders of the Mer Bleue Conservation Area, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ramsar site no. 755. & of course the lovely Black-capped Chickadee ( Poecile atricapillus ) Mer Bleue Conservation Area, Ottaw...

& who did I see False Dragonhead/Obedient Plant  ( Physostegia virginiana ) Greely, Ontario, Canada. It was a garden , a most beautiful private garden hidden from the world's eyes. The treasures the eye did see would have astounded you the viewer. Let me share some of what I did see & discover in this garden of earthly delights . Varieties of Japanese Maples   ( Acer palmatum ) in all different  colours & forms . They are a most beautiful tree from Asia . New England Aster  ( Symphyotrichum novae-angliae ) Pink variety , Greely, Ontario, Canada. This is a rare colour variety and they are usually blue-purple in colour. I was told that this was collected from Greens Creek in Eastern Ottawa where there are so many luscious & odd varieties of flora there. & lastly my most favourite flowering tree :  Witch Hazel  ( Hamamelis virginiana ) Greely, Ontario, Canada. Every Autumn I go on a quest in search of my favourite tree it ...

 & I Remember 

 Blah Blah Blah ... 100 !!! Well 100 blogs , I hope I have been typing something interesting for you all ... otherwise poo poo on you 😜 To tell the truth I have no idea or insights to relay today. I just want to celebrate that I have talked to you one hundred times now. Let's just reflect on the number 100 & see if anything interesting comes up. So let me introduce to you the number 100 : Cardinal one  hundred Ordinal 100th (one hundredth) Factorization 2 2  × 5 2 Divisors 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100 Greek numeral Ρ´ Roman numeral C, c Binary 1100100 2 Ternary 10201 3 Octal 144 8 Duodecimal 84 12 Hexadecimal 64 16 Greek numeral ρ Arabic ١٠٠ Bengali ১০০ Chinese numeral 佰,百 Devanagari १०० Hebrew ק  ( Kuf ) Khmer ១០០ Tamil ௱, க00 Thai ๑๐๐ From Wikipedia The Science of Number 100 One hundred is the atomic number of  fermium , an  actinide  and the first of the  heavy metals  that cannot be created through neutron bombardment. ...