ipernity: Don Sutherland

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Updated on: 23 Nov 2023.

Flowers, album created on 24 May 2013

Some of nature's jewels.

Snow/Neige, album created on 24 Jan 2014

Snow is one of nature's most remarkable phenomena. It is the perfect offspring of the lasting marriage between water and cold. A freshly fallen blanket of pure white snow brings a sense of joy, peace, and wonder to all who appreciate nature's boundless beauty. Following one of the great 19th century blizzards, "The Farmer's Cabinet" wrote in 1829, "It is cheering to see the towering bank in a sunny morning, gemmed like the crown of a monarch, with jewels that receive their splendor from the sun’…

Sunrise/Sunset Photos, album created on 29 Aug 2013

Nature's often brilliant lighting displays starring the rising and setting sun and an occasional "guest appearance" by fog.

Anchorage's Record-Breaking Summer of 2019 - 4 years ago

Prior to 2019, July 2016 was Anchorage, Alaska's warmest month on record. Summer 2019 as a whole was even warmer than July 2016. The duration of the excessive warmth and extreme temperatures recorded during the summer would have been very unlikely, if not improbable, without human-induced climate change.

Historic European Heat Offers Latest Symptom of Climate Change
- 28 Jul 2019

The second of the most intense pair of heat waves ever to roll across the European continent is now departing Scandinavia and headed for Iceland and Greenland where it will finally dissipate altogether. On account of these unprecedented bursts of heat, the weather record book has been rewritten across much of Europe. All-time national heat records were set in Belgium (41.8°C/107°F), France (46.0°C/115°F), Germany (42.6°C/109°F), Luxembourg (39.0°C/102°F), and the Netherlands (40.7°C/105°F). A pr…
America's Descent into Darkness
- 29 Jan 2017

I typically refrain from writing political commentary here. But these are no ordinary times, at least in the United States. The January 29, 2017 edition of The Washington Post reported : Sharef once worked for a U.S. government subcontractor in post-invasion Iraq as a translator and a program manager. He got his visas, after two years of vetting, through a special U.S. resettlement program for Iraqi employees of the American government. Working for Americans was filled with perils, he…