Greenland

[Hatchett]

Greenland, a great place to visit but i would not want to live there for long. I have had a few chances to go to study falcons there but the timing is always wrong for me. I have a few good friends that go year after year doing research, it seems they get the "Greenland bug" and can't shake it. My friends are a bit perplexed when I tell them that I would really rather look at plants in Greenland than falcons, maybe because i breed these falcons in my back yard. Perhaps someday i will go if the funding ever comes back. Sorry, not a plant picture and off topic.

One of the exquisite creatures of Greenland, the white gyrfalcon and a Peregrine Falcon, getting ready to be flown in the wilds of the Great Basin of north America(excuse my dirty truck).
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Jim

[Hoy]

When I saw your avatar I thought you were a falconer! Seems to be an interesting thing to do. In Norway it is strongly forbidden to keep falcons and other birds of prey in captivity.

[Kelaidis]

I too enjoy the maritime views and pictures, Todd: you are a dynamo! It is so strange that so many of the same plants, Campanula rotundifolia, Saxifraga cernua, etc. etc. are widespread in our own tundra so far away and so much further south. But then again, today it's snowing in mid May!

I recall flying over Greenland on a recent trip to Europe and gazing down at the vast snowfields and the slender thread of green and wondering what it must be like down there. The flower gardens in the town are a revelation (and must be a real source of pride and delight to the owners!)