Simple Minds: Sparkle In The Rain
top: Virgin V2300, white vinyl, 1984
2nd: Virgin VL 2274 C, clear vinyl, 1984
3rd: Virgin/Universal Music Group 3797354, 2015
Originally released: February 6, 1984
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Remembering Kirstie Alley (1951-2022)
Kirstie Louise Alley was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1951.
Alley with her future second husband Parker Stevenson in Aspen, Colorado, in 1979. The couple was married from 1983 to 1997 and share two children.
Starring in Star Trek movie The Wrath of Khan along with William Shatner, DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nemoy.
John Travolta, director Amy Heckerling, and Alley on set of the hit film "Look Who's Talking," which was released in 1989.
Alley in a scene of the TV show "Veronica's Closet." Alley played the title character in her second hit television show, which debuted in 1997.
Alley embraces fashion designer Zang Toi after walking the runway at the Zang Toi show during New York Fashion Week in 2011.
Alley attends a signing for her book "The Art of Men" in Los Angeles in 2012.
credits: @CBS Photo Archive/Getty @CNN @Insider @Everett Collection
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trying to enjoy the brief window of non-snowbound landscapes in my area by engaging in amateur geology and botony: a shitty field guide to the side of the hill i can see out my window
What its says on the tin. The tundra is hostile, rough terrain ass landscape where the lack of trees or cover makes this doofus ass qallunaat feel like a little mouse about to get swooped down on by a bird of prey. That said my cardio is a little better and I can't spend the summer just taking walks to the airport so i downloaded a plant ID app and took it up the hill towards the lake/reservoir
this hill. but instead of a majestic sunset it was threatening to drizzle (and did profusely on the way home)
I found this map on gov of canada's website and guess-timated about where I was during this jaunt. Basically this patch is on the southwest facing side of the hill, where there is some shallow boggy silty dirt covering the bedrock interspersed with a ton of boulders.
A little grass, and flowers. Despite the thinness of the soil the mossier patches hold water really well making it really easy to take a step andd land in a springy soggy patch
Pre Cambrian bedrock. Old as balls. Like 2 billion years old. I want this info to move me more, to experience wonder, but these juts of dark, rounded rock are everywhere here. More lichen with patches of moss
on to the flowers. Caveat that these are the best guess of my app, and i am not a plant expert
A Rhododendron, *probably* the Canadian Rhododendron. Its get confusing when the the azaleas show are a huge puffy bush and every plant here creeps a few inches from the ground. It like consistently damps soil which might make it a good indicator of which bits of ground are secretly planning to make my shoes soggy
Pincushion Plant or Arctic Diapensia. If I was a *good* fake botanist I would have brought a little ruler for scale bc a lot of these plants are dinky little guys. Apparently these are circumpolar, and I probably saw them the most so they gotta be very successful at what they do
Hookers Mountain Avens, the national flower of Iceland and the plant of our neighbors in the Northwest Territories. An old ass species that apparently has been so prevalent between between ice ages that it's pollen almost acts like a sedimentary layers in ice cores and helps date them :o
White arctic mountain heather or arctic bell heather. I don't know if the silver sprigs are part of the same plant, or a different heather. Apparently a very resinous evergreens that making good kindling even went wet, which is good to know if I ever get lost out there, I guess!
Moss campion. Also popular down south in rock gardens as they are pretty low maintenance. App notes thier long lives span as individuals in Alaska have been found to be over 200 years old. I am going to have to look up if a layperson can date them, moss doesn't seem like it would have tree rings?
Clubmoss? This one I'm not sure of, the examples in the app looked much greener. It kinda looks like it might be some kind of heather. Or a lonely patch of the next one:
Juniper Haircap an evergreen moss. Those are not flowers but modified leaves on the male plants.
BONUS ROUND
Not seen out on the land yet but the hot air coming out the vents of the office building adjacent to my apartment complex has cultivated some early Fireweed, the showstopper imo of the arctic windflower season :)
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