Author Archives: Roger Gosden
Aquamation-Graveyard talk
Watching sparks fly in the night around a scout camp fire, we often burst into song. One of our favorites was the graveyard song, called the hearse song in other versions. One of the stanzas goes: The worms crawled in … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Alkaline hydrolysis, Aquamation, Cremation for funerals, Desmond tutu
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Green Ibis
Virginia has recorded three species of ibises (surely not ‘ibi’), but never a Green Ibis as far as I know. Inge photographed this one in Costa Rica, close to the northern limit of a huge range across South America. So, … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, Inge Curtis birds, nature
Tagged Costa Rica, Green Ibis
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Anhinga
A head like a heron, body like a wild turkey, flies thermals like a vulture, swims like a diver, but genetic analysis shows Anhingas match closer to families of cormorants and tropical boobies, and frigate birds. Not a bird to … Continue reading
Mother’s fruitcake for Christmas and always
Family recipes are inherited like sepia photos of relatives who passed long ago, meant to savor the memories. None is more precious to me that a fruit cake. My last edition came out of the oven months before Christmas and … Continue reading
Posted in nature, Other
Tagged Captain Falcon Scott, Christmas, fruitcake, Gethsemani Abbey, Great British Baking Show
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Boat-billed Heron
Goofy looks make the Boat-billed Heron a character to remember. A lucky sighting for Inge in Costa Rica as this is a shy, nocturnal bird and a permanent resident of tropical lowland swamps and mangroves. It captures shrimp and small … Continue reading
Roger musing about Peace with Nature 