Northwest Wind
@keewatin.bsky.social
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Dad and outdoor enthusiast in the Mountain West | Environment | Climate | Community | Indigenous Rights | Circumpolar North | Film | Literature | Poetics. “Then we came forth, to see again the stars” (Dante Alighieri, the Inferno).
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keewatin.bsky.social
“Anyone for tea?  I’ll be scouting the backyard for Western Whiptail and Common Sagebrush Lizards.”

Introducing our newest generous soul: Aya.  

#catsky #catsofbluesky
Abyssinian Kitten
keewatin.bsky.social
“As many discoveries and insights as I gained from this compact, beautifully installed exhibition, a deepening curiosity about the artist arose. This is what a museum exhibition should do: leave us hungry for more.”

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paulseesequasis.bsky.social
Landmark exhibition finally honors George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), ‘it also introduces the museum-going public to an artist who has long been sequestered because of his ethnicity. The Ojibwe artist was
The vibrant colors of George Morrison (Grand Portage Chippewa), "The Red Sky" (1955), oil on canvas; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth (© George Morrison Estate, unless otherwise noted)
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beautysurroundsyou.com
Fierce winds drive off snow & ice from the peaks of Paine Grande in Patagonia's Torres del Paine. There is a whole world of drama & grandeur to be found far above in the peaks of mountains, & especially so for Patagonia!

#bluesky #photography #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #travel
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mrjeffknox.bsky.social
#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory
Today in UFO History - B-36 Radar Picks up Object
September 18, 1951 — Hudson Strait, Canada
1/10:20 p.m. USAF B-36 radar operator Maj. Paul E. Gerhart and navigator Maj. Charles J. Cheever are flying northwest at 239 mph over the Hudson Strait in
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tomsharperocks.bsky.social
#FossilFriday: a glacial erratic cobble of stromatolite, a fine algal carbonate rock, found at Cape Flinders, Kiillinnguyaq (Kent Peninsula), Nunavut, Canada, its source and age (probably Proterozoic?) unknown.
A cream-coloured limestone rock with the fine wavy banding of a stromatolite
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wildwoods.bsky.social
“Putting new, expensive roads into hard-to-reach areas will erode and pollute the water supply. It just doesn’t make any sense. We are losing this land rapidly. If we don’t conserve it, we will lose it.” ~Former USFS Chief Mike Dombeck www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’
Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment
www.theguardian.com
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allidejong.bsky.social
absolutely incredible piece, and do not skip the beautiful photos of the maps
placesjournal.bsky.social
"The City and the City and the City"
by Ayham Dalal

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/
keewatin.bsky.social
“As early as 1938, Ernest Gruening, then Gov of the territory, suggested that the area should become a nat’l park. ‘I have traveled through Switzerland extensively, have flown over the Andes …’ he said. ‘It is my unqualified view that this is the finest scenery I have ever been privileged to see.’”
zeblarson.bsky.social
I’ve been going through this weird wave of nostalgia about the short period of time I lived in Alaska; it was one of the few youthful adventures I got to take as the Great Recession put everything on hold.

That nostalgia I think comes out in this piece. This is about the park I worked in.
Why you've never heard of the largest national park in the US
We'll give you a hint: It's in Alaska.
www.sfgate.com
keewatin.bsky.social
"His daughter, Kazuko Kurosawa, detailed the formation of her father’s list, said: 'My father always said that the films he loved were too many to count, and to make a top ten rank. That explains why you cannot find in this list many of the titles of the films he regarded as wonderful.'"
A list of Akira Kurosawa's 100 favourite films of all time
With the likes of Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini and more, the greater Akira Kurosawa named his 100 favourite films of all time.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
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sambir.bsky.social
Beside the practical & friendly citizenry, Yellowknife is beautiful & interesting summer & winter. You should definitely go there on vacation. It's not even terribly expensive.

Obvs there's #SpectacularNWT outdoor scenery but also great food, cool museums, history, & fun connections further north.
A traditional moose skin on wood frame canoe on display in the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre museum in Yellowknife Canada.
The canoe is about 6 meters long and 1.5 wide.
A museum visitor is reading an information pannel about the impressive canoe. A rusty 1940's era truck with specialized mining attachments where the cargo tray would otherwise be sits amongst the overgrown grass of autumn under a sunny blue sky. Other old mining trucks and equipment are lined up, displayed along side. Part of the Giant Mine Museum's outdoor section in Yellowknife Canada. At the Giant Mine Museum in Yellowknife Canada, an indoor display showing the Yellowknife region's historical timeline. The display is a cream coloured background with a sine shaped wave used used as the timeline, changing colour through different periods. Information in text and pictures cover the board with lines to the appropriate points in time. Bright green northern lights against a deep blue night sky. Yellow autumn leaves on birch trees lit by the camera flash, frame three sides of the photo.
Fort Good Hope, NWT Canada in early September.
keewatin.bsky.social
Gorgeous photo from New Guinea? What a spectacular shot.
keewatin.bsky.social
“Gibson combines traditional techniques of indigenous cultures in North America—weaving, beadwork, ceramics and basketry—with powerful geometric and gestural abstraction, to create a unique visual language that questions conventional art-historical narratives and uncovers new ways of seeing ...”
keewatin.bsky.social
“I think this luminescent world, caught somewhere between tangible and intangible, is shackled by the name we’ve given it - stained glass. The phrase cannot bear the weight of what it truly is.”
keewatin.bsky.social
“The Indigenous Cosmology Mural holds particular significance for the Native American Astronomy Outreach (NAAOP) program. Through this program, hundreds of Native American students visit Lowell Observatory each year.”

lowell.edu/visit/indige...
melissasevigny.bsky.social
Photos from yesterday's unveiling of an Indigenous (Navajo/Hopi) mural at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Beautiful artwork by Nanibah Chacon and Gerald Dawavendewa celebrating Indigenous ways of knowing the night sky. 🧪🔭
Two Navajo dancers in traditional dress address an unseen crowd beneath projections of Indigenous artwork. A vertical mural fills a space alongside a staircase, showing Navajo constellations and Hopi symbols.
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keewatin.bsky.social
“The sweetness of ripening briar, bramble and berry roamed the croft. Together, they overwrote the perfume of bog myrtle. My sinuses ached with it all.”

As much about odour as about colour. Beautiful writing either way!
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judithofyork.bsky.social
Looking out at the bays of Sisimiut, Greenland
#photography
#Greenland
Two peopl’s legs frame a view of the bays of Sisimiut, Greenland
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melissasevigny.bsky.social
Someone asked me recently what we do about #science stories that are lost or destroyed or buried. I was lucky to have diaries to reconstruct this story; what if we don't? I said art - fiction, plays, poems - have a lot of power to take fragments and show how things might have been, or could be.
daviddaniel.bsky.social
Thank you, @melissasevigny.bsky.social, for introducing me to Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter. As you noted, their story matters, for so many reasons.

My wife and I both devoured BRAVE THE WILD RIVER, and have recommended it to our daughter, an environmental science major.
Book cover of Brave The Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of The Grand Canyon, by Melissa L. Sevigny. The title and author are listed in white type against a green background in the middle of the cover. Above it is a black-and-white photo of the book’s subjects, Lois Jotter and Elzada Clover; below is a painting of trees on either side of the Grand Canyon rim.
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montague-media.bsky.social
Hastings Park, Massachusetts, 2025. Second Time Lucky. #Art #Dog #ServiceDog #Donnatella #Peace #Photography #DriveByShooting #TravelPhotography #Suburbia #StopLightPhotography #Explore #CarCampingChronicles #LocalArt #Mural #HastingsPark #Quaint #Massachusetts #SmallTownVibes #StreetPhotography
keewatin.bsky.social
Fascinating to see Simpson reference the arctic and explorer Henson (a sharecropper who "arrived" at Camp Jesup 45 minutes before Cmdr Peary). "The first person to stand on top of the world was [a] black man named Henson."

www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...

Ego, erasure, exploration ...
thenation.com
Throughout a career that has spanned nearly four decades and encompasses photography, conceptual practices, collage, sculpture, and now painting, Lorna Simpson has created works of art that resist quick and easy reads.
The Art and Genius of Lorna Simpson
A new at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tracks what has changed and what has remained the same in the artist’s work.
www.thenation.com
keewatin.bsky.social
"I had rediscovered the pleasure of attachment to a place and the contentment that can be derived from exploring it fully, rather than constantly seeking ways to leave it and believing that satisfaction can only lie in novel experiences."

- Chloe Dalton

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powersflowers.bsky.social
A superb nature book by Chloe Dalton. The writing is so simple and *restrained*, leaving space for the reader’s own feelings and imagination. You become as intimate as any human can with the curious workings of a hare’s fragile but joyous life.

How anyone can support hare-coursing beats me.
Book cover: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. Sunday Times bestseller. Winner Wainwright prize 2025.
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diygeochemist.bsky.social
I'm rooting for the final to be two useful minerals...hematite vs. perovskite. So, just for today, I'm #TeamPerovskite.

(I want hematite to win the finals.)
keewatin.bsky.social
“By providing conceptual rather than geographical markers, the editors emphasize that the landmarks facilitate how the audience orients itself to the collection, rather than a prescriptive naming of place and people.”

Longer review here:

www.inuitartfoundation.org/iaq-online/a...
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keewatin.bsky.social
“This enthusiasm for such events, for scholarly criticism and theory, for engaging with students, colleagues, and friends, typifies Jameson’s life and work completely.”