#thompson canyon

[vintagecamping]

Train spotting while hiking in Thompson Canyon

British Columbia

1968

[rabbitcruiser]

The Colony of British Columbia (1858 – 66) was established on 2 August 1858 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.  

[thomaswaynewolf]

[aisling-saoirse]

Thompson Wash, Utah - May 20th 2023

[herpsandbirds]

Arizona Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus arizonae), male, family Picidae, order Piciformes, Madera Canyon, AZ, USA

photograph by Mick Thompson

[alexandramrobertson]

An Annotated Northwest Passage

Are you a Due South fan? Do you wonder about all the references in Stan Rogers’ song “Northwest Passage”? Sure you do! So here are your annotated lyrics!

Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea

In 1845, Captain John Franklin’s expedition set out from England to find the Northwest Passage: a sea route from Europe to Asia via the Arctic. His ships were trapped in ice and all aboard died.

You probably knew that, but did you know that the Beaufort Sea is the part of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Yukon and Alaska, at the western end of the Passage?

Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie The sea route to the Orient for which so many died Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones

Davis Strait lies between Greenland and Baffin Island, south of Baffin Bay. Franklin sailed through it into Baffin Bay and then north of Baffin Island into the Passage.

The “cairn of stones” likely refers to the cairn on King William Island where Franklin’s crew placed the Victory Point note. The only written record of the lost expedition, it was depicted in The Terror TV show.

Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland In the footsteps of brave Kelsey, where his Sea of Flowers began Watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again This tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain

Henry Kelsey was a 17th century fur trader working for the Hudson's Bay Company. He was likely the first European to visit the present day prairie provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta.

I have no idea where "Sea of Flowers" came from, but it's a lovely way to describe the prairies.

Canada’s Great Plains are incredibly flat. Cities really do appear to rise up and sink as you cross them, due to the curvature of the earth.

And through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west I think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson and the rest Who cracked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me To race the roaring Fraser to the sea

Alexander Mackenzie, David Thompson, and Simon Fraser were all explorers who travelled what is now Western Canada. They were all instrumental in finding routes through the mountains to the sea - routes we still drive today!

Mackenzie completed the first recorded transcontinental crossing north of Mexico in 1793, 12 years before Lewis & Clark. When he arrived in what is now Bella Coola, BC, he wrote an inscription on a rock that said he came "from Canada by land".

Thompson mapped almost 5 million square kilometres of western North America. He found routes through the Rocky Mountains and was the first European to travel the entire length of the Columbia River.

Fraser was in charge of the North West Company's fur trading operations west of the Rockies.

And they all had rivers named after them!

The Mackenzie River flows north from Great Slave Lake to the Beaufort Sea. The Mackenzie has the second largest drainage basin of any river in North America. You've probably never heard of it, but it flows right past Inuvik.

The Thompson River flows through the valleys and canyons of southern British Columbia to Lytton, where it meets with...

The Fraser River! The longest river in British Columbia meets the ocean just south of Vancouver, where it forms an enormous delta. Though it seems placid, if you travel upstream beyond the city you'll find a turbulent - well, roaring - canyon. If you drive the Trans-Canada Highway to Vancouver, you'll travel through the Fraser Canyon.

How then am I so different from the first men through this way? Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men To find there but the road back home again

While Franklin lost his life, Kelsey, Mackenzie, Thompson, and Fraser all survived their journeys. They all returned to a "settled life" after their adventure. They went home, wherever that happened to be.

[unteriors]

Thompson Canyon Road, Curlew, Washington.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Environment Canada has issued 25 air quality alerts for British Columbia, amid raging wildfires and a provincial state of emergency. The federal weather agency is warning that the smoke will last another 24 to 48 hours. Even in low concentrations, wildfire smoke can be harmful to human health. The alerts cover virtually all of Vancouver Island south of Port McNeill, all of the Sunshine Coast apart from Howe Sound, the entire Lower Mainland, and all of the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon. It also includes the Lakes District, Stuart-Nechako and North Thompson regions, as well everything south of that in B.C.’s Interior, the Okanagan, and the Kootenays.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[backside-into-the-heavenly]

Snowing really good in the Big Thompson Canyon..🌨🌨🌨

Big Thompson River 💦❄️

Big Thompson Canyon 🏔

3/14/24

💙🌨❄️🌨🩵✨️

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Canyon Wren

Photo: Mick Thompson

"One of the best songsters in the west, the Canyon Wren is usually heard before it is seen. Surprisingly elusive and skulking even in open terrain, this dark rusty wren disappears and reappears as it creeps about the jumbled rocks of an eroded cliff or steep canyon wall. If the observer waits, the bird will eventually jump to the top of an exposed boulder to pour out another song, a rippling and musical cascade of notes, well suited to beautiful wild canyons."

- Audubon Field Guide

[azurezfiction]

Power Rangers ship list

Because everyone seems to be doing it; here is my ship list!

Everything under the read more because it's a ton:

MMPRS1-Turbo 1: Tommy x Kimberly Zack x Trini Billy x Trini Jason x Tommy Billy x Skull (because of augment-techs) Stone Canyon Trio Rocky x Adam Aisha x Shawna Bulk x Connie David Truehart x Trey Tanya x Kat Tanya x Adam Tanya x Zack Aisha x Zack Turbo II - Lost Galaxy: Ashley x Cassie Andros x Ashley Zhane x Andros Zhane x Astronema/Karone Karone x Maya Mike Corbett x Carlos Vallerte Kai x Damon Leo x Andros TJ x Damon Lightspeed Rescue - Wild Force Joel x Miss Fairweather Kelsey Winslow x Nancy Thompson Carter x Ryan Dana x Taylor Taylor x Alyssa Merrick x Cole Eric x Wes Wes x Jen x Eric Katie x Trip Eric x Trip Danny x Max

Ninja Storm - SPD Dustin x Hunter Tori x Blake Blake x Trent Tori x Kira Dustin x Conner x Hunter Ethan x Cassidy

Mystic Force - RPM Nick x Xander Chip x Vida Udonna x Leanbow Leelee x Phineas Claire x Xander RJ x Casey Lilly x Theo Jarrod x Camilla Casey x Jarrod (x RJ) Ziggy x Dillion Flynn x Gemma

Samurai - Dino Charge Antonio x Jayden Lauren x Mia Troy x Jordan Noah x Orion Gia x Emma One-sided Jake x Noah (Jake crushing on Noah). Tyler x Shelby Tyler x Ivan Ivan x Tyler x Matt Koda x Phillip

Ninja Steel - Cosmic Fury Brody x Preston Calvin x Preston Calvin x Men. Sarah x Hayley Devon x Blaze Ravi x Roxy Ollie x Javi Amelia x Javi Izzy x Fern Zayto x Aiyon Zayto x Javi

Comics: Ace x Gent* Trek x Ace* Violet x Zack Ellarien x Remi Nikolai x Daniel Grace x Jamie x Terona Grace x Terona Matt Cook x Billy Cranston Crossover ships: Andrew Hartford x Mr Kelman (1995 Movie) x Dane Romero Fred Kelman x Justin Stewart Cam x Kimberly Conner McKnight x muscular guys Merrick x RJ Chad x Danny Chad x Aurico Delphine x Hayley Ziktor

*I have so many headcanons about these two ships and how it connects to canon, I'm really hoping to get it out soon!

[theyanderespecialist]

Base Yandere SCP 105 Headcanons (In 2025 She is likely in her early to mid-20s) (SCP Foundation)

[Hello, My Sexy Muffins! I am back with an old request, and here it is! It is of Iris Thompson, AKA SCP 105, and she is twenty that is Yandere for you, the gender-neutral reader! Enjoy this!] 

(!!!!!TRIGGER!!!!!WARNING!!!!!

There is a bit of mention of The Yandere Trying to Unalive herself in this, it is FICTION No One is actually trying to end their life. Proceed with Caution as mentioning it COULD be Triggering!) 

(Disclaimer: Iris Thompson Aka SCP 105 Is Not Yandere In Canon! This is just for fun and not to be taken seriously at all! Simping for fictional characters and yanderes is fine! Just do not be illegal or gross about it! You know who you are! You Dirty, Flaky, Biscuits! Yanderes are not ideal partners to have in real life! Also, remember to separate fiction from reality and headcanon from canon! Thank you!  Disclaimer: Iris Thompson was a teenager when she was first made an SCP it has been around five years (Most likely more) since then. So she would be roughly in her early to mid-20s! In this one though I will be making her 20! She IS An adult in this, thank you!) 

-Base Yandere Headcanions with SCP 105 Aka Iris Thompson From The SCP Fandom- 

.Iris is an anomaly that can manipulate photos and where the photo was taken. Such as a photo of the grand canon. She could phase her hand into the photo and move a rock at the Grand Canyon Falls, but she was back in her home many miles away. (on a side note it is later found out that she is a rare type of reality bender) 

.She was found by the foundation and taken away from her friends and family and no longer referred to as Iris, but SCP 105. 

.She was made a member of team alpha which she stayed on so no one else would have to go through what she did and suffer.  She was raised Catholic and had a few people she considered partners or lovers. 

.Although she never fully fell for anyone the way she did you. 

.You were an amazing person in her eyes, working with the foundation and being a very kind and sweet person.  .She found herself becoming happier around you, as she had gone into a deep depression and had tried to kill herself several times. 

.You gave her hope, hope she did not have since she came to the foundation. 

.For so long she has been pessimistic with her life in the foundation but you gave her a strong feeling of hope and like things could become better. 

.She loves to see you and would love to spend time with you. 

.She could not get enough of you and wanted to be near you as much as possible. 

.When she sees women or men with you and it appears like they were flirting and or hitting on you. she openly calls them sluts and whores. 

.They did not deserve you, you were the only good thing in this damn place and she refused to let anyone else get their hands on you. 

.She is very protective of you and would not want you hurt at all and if someone did hurt you she would really, REALLY want to hurt them for what they did to you. 

.She is a VERY Vengeful yandere to her core and she would have her revenge even going as so far to take down the foundation. 

.The foundation would see how much of a risk Iris is with her love for you and would try and separate you two. 

.This does not go well, and the foundation would be forced to give in and more or less give you to Iris. 

She would never lay and hand against you and just wants you to know that you would never be alone again and that she was all that you needed. 

.She would want to make it clear that you were hers and she was not going to share you with anyone else. 

.She deals with rivals at first treating them coldly and making things very, very difficult for them. 

.She is the type that would most likely not kill unless she snaps. 

.She is very peaceful in nature, especially for a yandere. 

.She would not kill her rivals unless she had no other choice, but the thought of hurting them does cross her mind many, Many, MANY Times! 

.She still has her faith, even if God does not comfort her the way it used to. 

.She still believes in being a good person, and at this point, she fully believes that you are a gift from God. 

.The person that was given to her, as a reward for her patience and acceptance and an apology for all the suffering she had to go through. 

.You were meant to be hers and this was all for her to meet you and be with you. 

.Once she builds up the courage she will confess her love to you, and when she does she is beyond nervous, so afraid you would turn her down. 

.She does not know what she would do if you turned her love down. You will find out what she does if you do turn down her love, in a hot second, but first! 

.If you accepted her love? She would be a bit shocked, but so happy, so happy that she breaks down crying tears of joy. 

.She finally had something good in her life and she is never ever letting you be good, you are the only good thing in her life after all! 

.This would be the start of her future and she is never ever going to let you go. 

.BUT if you turn her down, she will feel her heart shatter, and she would most likely spiral, feeling like her life was over. 

.All the hope and happiness she had built up with you was gone and it is away at her mental health and stability. 

.This is the point that she cannot live without you, but she is not the type to take your life or go on a murder spree. 

.No, no, no she is the type of yandere that would take her life, leaving the tragic note that she cannot live in a world where you do not love her. 

.This was not to manipulate you or anything, but because she feels truly hopeless and lost without you. 

.She would keep trying to end her life, until she was dead, or until you changed your mind (She did try to commit life-ending stuff with the intent to make you change your mind. 

.But because she felt truly hopeless without you and that her life was NOT worth living if you were not in it. 

.She makes it clear that this was not your fault and that it was what the foundation did and she hopes the foundation does not hurt you the way she has beem hurt. 

.In the end, she is a very rare yandere. She would be unlikely to hurt anyone as a yandere, even though she fantasized about it, and if things ended badly, she would not hurt you but instead lash out at herself. 

.She never wanted to hurt you and she never would, even if you rejected her and ended up with someone else. 

.She is just not going to stay and watch you be with someone else, that is far too painful for her to bear. 

[YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS another chapter is done! I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter here, and please stay sexy, all of my sexy muffins!] 

(I forgot to add she would love to take photos of you, and has a shrine of photos of you!) 

[xtruss]

Poinsettias adorn the Zocalo, the main square in modern Mexico City. Indigenous to Mexico and Central America, the plant became a symbol of Christmas with a little help from European missionaries and an American diplomat named Joel Poinsett. Photograph By Carrie Thompson, Alamy Stock Photo

How The Rugged Poinsettia became Our Favorite Holiday Flower

Long before a clever marketer turned it into a Christmas staple, the Aztec and Maya celebrated the colorful shrub for its medicinal value.

— By Bill Newcott | Published: December 22, 2022

Think “Poinsettia” and you think “Christmas,” right? Well, think again. At the time of the first Christmas, the closest poinsettia to the little town of Bethlehem was 8,000 miles away, clinging to life in a rocky canyon in what’s now southwestern Mexico.

“The Aztec called the plant cuetlaxochitl (brilliant flower), and the Maya referred to it as k’alul wits (ember flower),” says Mark Hoddle of the University of California Riverside’s department of entomology. He became fascinated with the poinsettia while working on his doctoral dissertation in the 1990s, exploring ways to control whiteflies, a common scourge of the holiday plants.

There’s evidence the indigenous peoples of Central America appreciated the plant for its seasonal red leaves, he says, but mostly they saw medicinal value.

“When you break a leaf or branch of a poinsettia, it leaks a milky white sap,” Hoddle says. “The cultures believed that sap had healing properties.” Aztecs applied the sap to the breasts of nursing mothers to increase milk production. They also used the sap as a depilatory.

Even today, Hoddle says, descendants of the ancient Maya in Mexico boil the leaves to create a remedy for obstetrical or gynecological hemorrhaging. And if you happen to be bitten by a snake, the locals say, there’s nothing better than boiled root of k’alul wits.

The poinsettia is named in honor of Joel Roberts Poinsett, an American diplomat and avid amateur botanist who introduced the plant to the United States in the 1820s. Library of Congress

The First Christmas Poinsettias

Franciscan missionaries arrived in Mexico in the 16th century and eventually began setting up elaborate manger scenes at Christmastime. Holly, Europe’s holiday flora of choice, was nowhere to be found for the dioramas, but when the missionaries saw the red and green colors of this local plant—that happened to burst into color every December—they knew they had the perfect stand-in.

By the time an American diplomat named Joel Poinsett arrived in Mexico in the 1820s, those bright leaves were a common sight in local churches at Christmastime. A swashbuckling U.S. congressman from Charleston, South Carolina, Poinsett spoke six languages, dined with Russia’s czar, served President James Madison as a covert agent to protect U.S. business interests in South America, and somewhere along the way became, for a short time, a general in the Chilean army.

Yet despite all his exploits, Poinsett is remembered primarily as the amateur botanist who became fascinated with those red and green plants from Mexico. He sent some home to Charleston, where people began growing them in their gardens. Their notoriety grew under a variation of Poinsett’s name.

Poinsettias Become A Christmas Star

For the first 100 years or so after those first transplants arrived in Charleston, fragile poinsettias were nearly impossible to keep alive in a pot. They were sold primarily as cut flowers.

“That all changed with these guys,” says Fred Clarke, keeper of what’s likely the world’s only poinsettia library. He’s leading me toward a large, translucent white shed tucked into a corner of the Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch, a bit north of San Diego, California.

Each spring Carlsbad’s famous Flower Fields become a fantasia of red, yellow, and white ranunculus flowers. Clarke is the horticulturalist in charge of making sure those 80 million flowers grow and get to market, but it’s clear his passion plant grows inside this shed.

“Here we are!” he enthuses as we step inside. Sitting on a series of low, tiered risers are scores of potted poinsettias arranged chronologically in order of their historical development.

Clarke doesn’t have a sample of Joel Poinsett’s iteration, but his chronology does include a close relative: the legendary St. Louis Red. The first mass-produced poinsettia, it was introduced in 1924 by Louis Bordet of Missouri.

Long-stemmed and fragile, the St. Louis Red was still primarily a cut flower. But a self-taught Southern California agriculturalist named Paul Ecke started toying with the Red’s genetics, breeding varieties that exploded with multiple colored leaves, didn’t mind growing in a greenhouse, and, most importantly, could be shipped in pots.

Following the lead of those long-ago missionaries, Ecke began marketing poinsettias as “The Christmas Flower.” He convinced Hollywood to use them as decorations on seasonal TV specials. (Ecke’s son personally saw to it that Johnny Carson had an extravagant display behind his Tonight Show desk each year.)

For decades, the Ecke family grew nearly all their poinsettias on what’s now Carlsbad’s Flower Fields. Today, poinsettias are grown primarily outside the U.S., so the Ecke family focuses on developing and patenting new varieties. The results are on proud display in Clarke’s poinsettia library.

Ushering me through the collection, Clarke—who started working with the Ecke family 42 years ago—ticks off the subsequent varieties. They include the Flaming Sphere (1950), a floppy version that never caught on. The C-1 (1968) was the first poinsettia that could withstand the rigors of transport. The Limo (1988) introduced the deep red of present-day poinsettias. Freedom Family (1991) was the first with rounded, elephant-ear-shaped bracts rather than long, pointy ones. And the Prestige (2002), known for its rich color and stamina, is now the most popular poinsettia on the planet.

After touring the poinsettia library, Clarke invites me to enjoy one of the Flower Fields’ famous strawberry milkshakes. As we head for a small stand, he suddenly stops and turns back toward the shed and his red-leafed congregation. He smiles.

“These guys have come a long way,” he says.

[angelloverde]

"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 31 October

Dedicated Men Of Zion - Can't Turn Me Around

Malachi Thompson - West Side Stomp

Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd. Street Rhythm Band - Your Love (Means Everything to Me)

Rock Candy Funk Party - Mr. Space

21st Century Ghost - Here At Night

Aaron Neville - Hard to Believe

Roxy Roca - Ain't Nothin' Fancy

Mahalia Barnes & The Soul Mates Feat. Joe Bonamassa - Nasty Gal

Dr. John - Gut Bucket Blues

Sheila E. - America

Swamp Dogg - Choking To Death

Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola - Those Desks Aren't Going To Clean Themselves

Four80East - Cookie Strut

The Soul Rebels - Unlock Your Mind

fDeluxe - Over The Canyon

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)

[readjthompson]

Shamrock Rebellion was a lot of fun. Here are some clips I filmed of Gen and the Degenerates, Face to Face, Buzzcocks, Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls, Flogging Molly, pit people, and me. Cheers.

[dimsilver]

tagged to share a good song for each letter of my url - thanks @accidental-spice! this list is heavily slanted towards my summer playlist :)

Daylight by Watchouse

It Would Be You by Ben Rector

Man in Room 39 by The Arcadian Wild

Summerland by half•alive

I’ll Fly Away by The Gray Havens

Like the Dawn by the Oh Hellos

Venice by Canyon City

Eden Bound by Jac Thompson

Round Prairie Road by Jamestown Revival

open tag - please share some music if you’re so inclined :)