I love the memories this post has generated in the comments. Did you grow up with dulce (edible seaweed) like I did? Thanks to @richrray.bsky.social for pulling some stories out of the archives for this fun piece!

Join our editor @saraspike.bsky.social on the @transcanadatrail.bsky.social to remember the Blueberry Express! niche-canada.org/2025/09/09/s... #envhist #cdnhist #trails #novascotia

Finally rain 🌧

Big high tide, the goldenrod is swimming xo

Wildflowers, history, and dulse what else? 💙

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Blueberries 💙

I've been working with Sarah on a project about the history of forestry in our area. Her presentation tonight was excellent; her GIS skills are incredible! We'll be sharing the results of this work this fall. Get in touch if you have any personal knowledge of sawmills in Halifax County!

My essay on how the early modern camera obscura brought us more deeply into our interior lives is now live @publicdomainrev.bsky.social publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ea...

Mackerel xo

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

I was asked to write about my local section of the Trans Canada Trail. Here is my short essay called "Remembering the Blueberry Express," about rail to trail along the coast of Nova Scotia tctrail.ca/stories/reme... #envhist #cdnhist @transcanadatrail.bsky.social

Finally found the fog, at Cape Spear Lighthouse xo

The way the blueberries feel when I roll them from their stems with my thumbs into my palm.

My mom made a lot of the clothes for this fashion show, based on historical photos from our local archives. It promises to be a lovely time, and another great reason to come to the Eastern Shore 💗 visitmemorylane.ca/events/1940s...

Looking for fog in St. John's at @theroomsnl.bsky.social

(Weather) A high fog settles over the Halifax waterfront as temperatures climb today. Temperatures are expected to climb into 30+c over the next few days with high humidity. Molly the dog was definitely taking advantage of a fun cool down activity. Take steps to avoid heat related illnesses

Heading to eastern Newfoundland to visit archives and talk to folks about fog. Any suggestions for fog- or non-fog-related activities, great community museums, excellent food, people to connect with all greatly appreciated! Hoping to get back to Elliston, where I took this photo a few years ago ❤️

Heading to eastern Newfoundland to visit archives and talk to folks about fog. Any suggestions for fog- or non-fog-related activities, great community museums, excellent food, people to connect with all greatly appreciated! Hoping to get back to Elliston, where I took this photo a few years ago ❤️

I asked our friend Paul to design this Cooler At The Coast shirt for Jeff's birthday and it turned out so rad! Now you can get your own and/or some other cool stuff from him! Check out the Peace Worm pin ☮︎

We're grateful for a decade of conversation about early Canadian history at @earlycanada.bsky.social, and now we have decided to wrap up Borealia as an active project (after this week's 3-part finale, M, W, F). A few closing thoughts here: earlycanadianhistory.ca/2025/07/06/a...

Fog dogs xo

We are hiring a part-time site manager! Applications due July 11th. For more information: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/05...

& an early start, river & tributary showing their courses in exhaled spectres of mist & the sun when it comes does so powerfully to burn off ghosts quickly

I love this essay about the historical ecology of a land haunted by caribou, and the restoration of a Wolastoqey birch bark basket by Elder Gina Brooks and @rmbryant.bsky.social "although Wolastokuk no longer holds caribou, it continues to hold caribou food" #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

Picking spruce tips to make jelly and syrup xo

Les aboiteaux symbolisent la transformation des marais par les Acadiens, reflétant leur lien croissant avec un territoire acadien défini. Lire l'article de Ronald Rudin « Les Acadiens et leurs aboiteaux » niche-canada.org/2015/03/30/l... #envhist #cdnhist #envirotech

First ocean swim, summer is on.

Clintonia borealis blooming now in the woods xo #wildflowers #bloomscrolling

Delighted to announce that yesterday was publication day for *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North* 🥳 It feels great to have it out there. I look forward to hearing from readers 😃 Available from @ubcpress.bsky.social: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon... #cdnhist #envhist

The Rhodora (Rhododendron canadense) is blooming now in the woods, as it ever was 💜 "if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being" Ralph Waldo Emerson (1834) #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #envhist #envhum

John Harvie was summoned before Justice Farquhar for interfering with the comfort of those present at a pie social held lately in the hall at Brooklyn. Hants Co May 27 1898

Sun dog xo

www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene... come to @thebartlettucl.bsky.social on 28 May to hear about my work on the southern North Sea in the nineteenth century and now. Book your place through the link

“The word “agency” gets at the idea that plants are not passive recipients of the world. They take into account their surroundings, the conditions, and shape themselves accordingly.” On plant intelligence.

Our festival day on #Rathlin ended with artists Joshua Portway & Lise Autogena showing their film about the Making of Foghorn Requiem, a requiem involving a brass band & many foghorns on land & sea. See the film & learn more about their phenomenal project: www.foghornrequiem.org/documentation #RSF25

Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.) blooming now xo #wildflowers #bloomscrolling

Goldthread (Coptis trifolia) One of the tiny white flowers that will carpet the forest floor over the next few weeks. #wildflowers #bloomscrolling

I took this foghorn to the excellent conference on material culture in Atlantic Canada at Dalhousie this week and honked it at the audience. What fun! Thanks to Memory Lane Heritage Village for the loan! visitmemorylane.ca

The schedule of events for #CHESS2025 with @nichecanada.bsky.social is now out! Cruise into the weekend by reading about all the #EnvHist fun we’ll be getting up to in a couple weeks niche-canada.org/2025/05/16/c...

Our rural grocery store, largely unchanged for 40 years, closed today (replaced by a fancy new store across the parking lot). When I popped in earlier, everyone was chatting at the checkouts as usual. That won't change, but I'll miss the familiar nostalgic space and feel of our dear little Sobeys 💗

8 p.m. light xo

Birthday portrait Very grateful to be here

Ready steady 💚 Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense); Cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum); Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp); Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) #wildflowers #bloomscrolling

New Call for Contributors! Our editor @maryeb.bsky.social is building a project page to mark the 25th anniversary of the Walkerton Water Crisis and its impact! Proposals accepted on an ongoing basis. niche-canada.org/2025/05/09/c... #envhist #cdnhist #water #waterhistory

Franklin-Folger map of the Gulf Stream c1768 (LOC). Among its many effects are the dense fogs that form over Sable Island and the Grand Banks off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, as the warm water of the stream meets the icy water of the Labrador Current flowing from the north.

Long live Piggy and the radical, weird Halifax they soundtracked 💗