Derrick S Denholm
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Derrick S Denholm
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UltraNerd Author, Artist, Music snob, Nature lover, Athiest, Vegetarian, Leftist, Gardener, Science geek. Nyckelharpa, HurdyGurdy, and Banjo aficionado. Vancouver-born Scots-Swede-Dutch compound.
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Hex, I make a few every year. Good news! They are not really hard at all, and the quality is worth the few extra steps.
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Views of West Francois Lake area in northern British Columbia, October 7, 2025. Looking from surveys in burnt over areas from a few years ago. Days of the first autumn frosts, as well. #BCWild #Forests #Ecology
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Blue chanterelles (Polyozellus atrlazulinus) still frozen from the previous night's frost, from my ulta-secret spot, picked on October 10 2025 Henkel-Nourse FSR, in Northern BC. #BCWild #WildMushroom #Foraging
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Pink spirea (Spiraea douglasii) growing in a nice big patch at the forest's edge, in the dry cool sub-boreal spruce zone. They prefer moist seepage areas with particular nutrient-poor soil, where they can dominate, and sometimes grow up to two meres tall. Near Tintagel in northern BC. August 2025.
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I have a secret spot that grows blue chanterelles (Polyozellus atrlazulinus) every fall, in a forest strip between two creeks, thus always wet. Perfect. These were picked Sept 26 2025, near Burns Lake, BC. The third photo is from 2024, showing what they look like without getting rained upon...
Blue chanterelles (Polyozellus atrlazulinus) still frozen from the previous night's frost, from my ulta-secret spot, picked on October 10 2025 Henkel-Nourse FSR, in Northern BC. #BCWild #WildMushroom #Foraging
Views of West Francois Lake area in northern British Columbia, October 7, 2025. Looking from surveys in burnt over areas from a few years ago. Days of the first autumn frosts, as well. #BCWild #Forests #Ecology
I have a secret spot that grows blue chanterelles (Polyozellus atrlazulinus) every fall, in a forest strip between two creeks, thus always wet. Perfect. These were picked Sept 26 2025, near Burns Lake, BC. The third photo is from 2024, showing what they look like without getting rained upon...
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Sometimes, no matter how badly a tree is planted, it still survives. Squeezed out of its loose hole by frost, this one has sent rootlets far down in the hole. Near Tintagel in northern BC. P.S.: This is not a get off free card for lazy planters, as it is stunted and may not live. #BCtreeplanting
Sometimes, no matter how badly a tree is planted, it still survives. Squeezed out of its loose hole by frost, this one has sent rootlets far down in the hole. Near Tintagel in northern BC. P.S.: This is not a get off free card for lazy planters, as it is stunted and may not live. #BCtreeplanting
Pink spirea (Spiraea douglasii) growing in a nice big patch at the forest's edge, in the dry cool sub-boreal spruce zone. They prefer moist seepage areas with particular nutrient-poor soil, where they can dominate, and sometimes grow up to two meres tall. Near Tintagel in northern BC. August 2025.
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Quint with some black huckleberries high up in the ESSF zone (Engleman spruce, subalpine fir), the first of the season. A few weeks early, really. Near Burns Lake, in Northern BC. #terrier #huckleberries #BCWild
Quint with some black huckleberries high up in the ESSF zone (Engleman spruce, subalpine fir), the first of the season. A few weeks early, really. Near Burns Lake, in Northern BC. #terrier #huckleberries #BCWild
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Quint, looking for voles in the cotton grass, bog orchids, monkey flowers, and Sitka valerian in a nice seepage zone of a subapline meadow, near Burns Lake, BC, July 2025.
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Woodland pine drops [Pterospora andromedea Nutt.] just about halfway grown, now 40-50 cm tall. One of the few plants that grow here that do not photosynthesize and instead are myco-heterotrophs that partner with fungi to break down dead woody debris in the soil. Near Burns Lake, BC, July 2025
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Quint on top of the biggest hill near Davidson Lake, near Burns Lake BC, just before the monsoon-intensity rainfall smashed into us, on Friday morning, about 8:30 A.M.
Quint, looking for voles in the cotton grass, bog orchids, monkey flowers, and Sitka valerian in a nice seepage zone of a subapline meadow, near Burns Lake, BC, July 2025.
Woodland pine drops [Pterospora andromedea Nutt.] just about halfway grown, now 40-50 cm tall. One of the few plants that grow here that do not photosynthesize and instead are myco-heterotrophs that partner with fungi to break down dead woody debris in the soil. Near Burns Lake, BC, July 2025
Quint on top of the biggest hill near Davidson Lake, near Burns Lake BC, just before the monsoon-intensity rainfall smashed into us, on Friday morning, about 8:30 A.M.
Ah, not obvious, at all. Nine years of art's university never taught me this. In the good old book and library days pre-Internet if you were confronted with an unknown image, song, phrase [...] it remained an unknown image, song, phrase until years later when you saw it again, this time labelled.
How could that be obvious, without a knowledge of Latin? From my experience, there are now so many people who post images and videos and don't identify the item, location, author [...] that I have begun to lose hope in people's understanding of why things are being posted in the first place. D'oh
Oh, in my nine years of university, for some reason I never did take Latin. Swedish, yes, not Latin. I guess that makes me a lepton. One with published books shortlisted for prizes, artist of the year award, and the like, three arts degrees but sadly, no Latin. Is the egg showing?
Hey Quis P, why don't you please do a bit of research before posting and name the artist, piece, date, etc...