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Thursday, May 7, 2026

Where Are the Greenlanders in Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico?

Where Are the Greenlanders in Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico? Where are Greenlanders in Seasons by the L:ake: Adventures in Greenland by author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees, Dial Books, March 17, 2026? Where are the Greenlanders in Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland by author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees, Penguin/Random House-imprinted Dial Books for Young Readers, March 17, 2026? Five Greenlanders as a Greenlander dog and his four human-membered family base themselves in a red-wood house built into a slope whose bottom banks lakeshore beaches The afore-considered lake clusters ice slabs containing ice-blue glacier-sharded nilak even as an area waterfall conveys such mountain-snow melt from the Greenland interior's many-thousands-years-old ice sheet The afore-described waterfall delivers its waters downstreamwardly into the afore-designated lake even as its waters descend into a creek and a puddle that draw lake water Creek, lake, puddle and waterfall waters embellish the lakeside environment even as they enable establishing an enclave that ensembles one house, three houses and two houses The architectural configuration of a red house; a blue-, red-, yellow-housed trio; and a blue- and green-housed duo perhaps facilitate furnishing an extended-family and family-friends network The red-painted, reddened-wooded house whose interior we glimpse guards the modern grouping of a living-room floor lamp and of a kitchen food-heating oven and stove-top duo The afore-hailed biogeographies heralds the fjords ("deep-intracliff-long-narrow-inlet," Old Norse fjǫrdr) that coastal Greenland hosts even as northwest, southeast and southwest coastlines have such fjord-housed lakeside homes The information that the five itineraries impel includes no indication as to which coastal fjord is inhabited by one Greenland dog and his four-membered human family The two-page Postscript jubilates Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland by author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees as a southeast- or southwest-coastal journey The inner side of the four-season book's back flap keepsakes, on its upper part, a Greenland map even as that cartography keeps more south-coastally than north-coastally The first page of the Aparico postscript lists Kalaallit Greenlanders as logging the largest, majority numbers of perhaps year-2025, perhaps year-2026 total's 26,000 Greenlanders living Greenlandically Many Kalaallit maintain a modern lifestyle outside the capital city even as brothers Minik and Nuka, their dog Nanoq, their grandmother, their mother manifest that modernity The 1993-built hydroelectric-power plant with its world-longest, unsupported, 3-mile (5-kilometer) Ameralikfjord-crossing power line south of capital-city Nuuk ("promontory") nullifies imported-oil power-sourcing floor lamps and stove-topped ovens Author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees in Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland observe waterfalling occasioned by mountain snow overcome by summer-sun heat Coastal-west biogeography positions Mount Sermitsiaq ("piece-ice") sufficiently proximitous to the capital city Nuuk even as such placement permits its mountain snow to proceed apace as melted-snow waterfalls Southwest Greenland quarters livestock farms whose "caribou reindeer" (Rangifer tarandus; Charles Hamilton Smith [Thu., Dec. 26, 1776-Wed., Sep. 21, 1859], 1827) queue posthumously as steamed suaasat ("soup/stew") Southwest-Greenland farms reside sheep (English Northern-European short-tailed sheep [Ovis aries]; Greenlandic kalaallit savaataat; Danish grønlandsk får), whose wool renders family caps, mittens, scarves, socks and sweaters The framed-art polar-bear (Ursus maritimus ["bear maritime"; Captain John Phipps (Sat., May 30, 1744-Wed., Oct. 10, 1792)]) duo suggests north-Greenland, Melville-Bay, Qimusseriarsuaq ("great-dogsledding-place") polar-bear nature reserve Author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees in Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland perhaps treat coastal-west Greenlanders, apart coastal-north bears, coastal-east power-sourcing oil

Summary: .

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

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The noun niviarsiaq ("young-girl") references national-flower dwarf fireweed (broad-leaved," Chamaenerion[/Epilobium, Robert Sweet [1783-Tue., Jan. 20, 1835] latifolium; Carl Linnaeus [Mon., May 23, 1707-Sat., Jan. 10, 1778). The noun niviarsiaq ("young-girl") references national-flower dwarf fireweed (Chamaenerion latifolium; Carl Linnaeus [May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778). The nouns nilak ("freshwater-/glacier-ice-piece") and suaasat ("soup/stew") suggest meal-time water and caribou ("caribou reindeer," Rangifer tarandus; Charles Hamilton Smith [Thu., Dec. 26, 1776-Wed., Sep. 21, 1859]).

Author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Neese transmit, through two languages, qujanaq thanks for Seasons by the Lake and paggaa coin-throwing among Adventures in Greenland.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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Sunday, May 3, 2026

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar Assigns Anna's Hummingbirds May 2026

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar Assigns Anna's Hummingbirds May 2026 Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar assigns Anna's hummingbirds May 2026 in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar assigns Anna's hummingbirds, coastal-west Canada's, coastal-west United States' and peninsular-west Mexico's garden-commonest hummingbird species, May 2026 in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series Anna's hummingbirds, genus-specied Calypte anna ("head-dress," Greek καλύπτρα) belongs to the Apodiformes ("footless-shaped," Greek ἄπους, Latin -fōrmēs) hummingbird-, swift-ordered Trochilidae ("plover-appearing," Latin trochilus -idæ) hummingbird-membered family René Lesson (Thurs., Mar 20, 1794-Sat., Apr 28, 1849) calling the species anna commemorates Anna Massena, Duchess of Rivoli (Wed., Jul 28, 1802-Fri., Jan., 28, 1887) A Frenchman determining an Italian designation perhaps does not direct us to the Trochilid ("Egyptian-plover," Greek τροχίλος {"run," τρέχω]) member dwelling where English and Spanish dominate Anna's hummingbirds elect Pacific-coastal North America from northwest Canada's British Columbia southward through Unitedstatesian west's coastal Washington, Oregon and California into northwest, peninsular Mexico's Baja California Dense, shrubby evergreens of coastal-south California once figured as the habitat favored by Anna's hummingbirds even as garden feeders and flowers further their flourishing Pacific Coast-wide Breeding habitats now group coastal, dense shrublands; open woodlands; or such anthropogenic ("human-kind/-offspring," Greek ἄνθρωπος ενής) grounds as cultivated, flower-scaped gardens, lawns, meadows, parks and yards Anna's hummingbirds head to chaparral ("evergreen-oak-dense/-dwarf," Basque txapar -o), open-woodland, suburban-garden habitats during breeding-season months December through July even as such habitats always house nectar sources Physically and sexually mature males impel two to three breeding intervals from December 2025 through July 2026 even as their sky-diving courtships impress their intended mates Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series jubilates May 2026, month six in Anna's hummingbirds' breeding-season octet Two- to 30-foot (0.6096- to 9.144-meter) heights keeping some moisture and nest support kindle 1.5-inch (3.81-centimeter) diameter feather-, plant down-lined, fine-stem, plant-down, spider-webbed lichen-flake exterior-ornamented nests Anna's-hummingbird mothers-to-be look after laying their eggs even as their solitary-species lifestyle leads their biannual to triannual nest-locating and egg-lodging to last two to 30 days They manage 16- to 17-day incubations of two long-elliptical to long-subelliptical, nonglossy, 13- by 9-millimeter (0.51181102- by 0.35433071-inch) white eggs whose one-by-one manifestations mandate two-day intervals Altricial ("nourisher/wetnurse," Latin altrīx ["feed/nourish/nurture," Latin alō), black-skinned, short-billed, yellow-mouthed nestlings with mid-back, smoky-gray down navigate as open-eyed five-day-olds, as sprouted-pinfeathered seven-day-olds and as independentized 12-day-olds Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar overlaps Anna's hummingbirds and May 2026 even as second- or third-brooded nestling-duo sets organize independent occupancies as fledged 25- to 26-day-olds Anna's hummingbirds perfect rapid-flight patterns even as fast wing-beating never prevents their pausing over nectared flowers and pursuing smaller-sized air- or foliage-peregrinating insect and spider prey Immature males and all females quarter green crowns and napes; red-flecked or red-spotted gray throats; gray-white underparts; green upperparts; green, rounded tails with white-tipped outer feathers Mature males reveal rose-red heads; rose-red necks and pale-throated sides; black, short, straight bills; gray underparts; green flanks and sides; iridescent-green upperparts; black-green, somewhat-notched, square tails Eight-year life-expectancy maximums standardize physical and sexual maturity at 4-inch (10-centimeter) body and 5-inch (13-centimeter) wingspan lengths and at 3/32- to 7/32-ounce (3- to 6-gram) weights Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar tracks Anna's hummingbirds May 2026 even as they transmit buzzing-, high-, thin-variable song-warbling; buzzy-, fast-chattered chase-calling; double-, hard-, serial-, sharp-"Tsit!" perch-calling

Summary: Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar assigns Wilson's plovers June 2026 in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series.

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar assigns Wilson's plovers, mid-, southeast-Atlantic, northeast-, north-, northwest-Caribbean Unitedstatesian and California-peninsular, Pacific-coastal Mexican shorebirds, June 2026 in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series.

Being genus-specied Charadrius wilsonia ("healing-powered-mythical-bird," Greek χαραδριός ["dry-riverbed," χαράδρα]) bases Wilson's plovers in the Charadriiformes ("plover-shaped," Latin charadrius fōrmēs) order's Charadriidae ("[Eurasian-stone-curlew-Burhinus-oedicnemus-]plover-appearing/-resembling," Latin charadrius -idæ) family. Unitedstatesian-zoologist George Ord (Sun., Mar 4, 1781-Wed., Jan. 24, 1866) calling the species wilsonia commemorates Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson (Sun., Jul 6, 1766-Mon., Aug. 23, 1813). Charadrius wilsonia beldingi (Lyman Belding [Fri., Jun 12, 1829-Thur., Nov. 22, 1917]; Robert Ridgway [Tues., Jul 2, 1850-Mon., Mar 25, 1929]) designates Pacific-coastal Mexican, peninsular-Californian subspecies.

Long-, stout-, straight-billed Wilson's plovers eat crustacean ("shell's," Latin crusta -acea), insect, mollusk ("soft-/thin-shelled," Latin molluscus) and worm prey and such hard-shelled crabs as fiddler crabs.

Mid-Atlantic through Florida-tip, north-Caribbean and southeast-Texas coastlines figure as breeding, migrating flyways favored by Wilson's plovers even as afore-featured Caribbean-coastal Texas through Florida fulfill overwintering functions.

Breeding grounds go from coastal-south Maryland and New Jersey coastally southward through and along coastal-east Florida, northward along peninsular Florida and coastally westward along coastal-southeast Texas. North-American Caribbean-Sea and southeast-Atlantic coasts house mud- and saltwater-flat, open-beach, overwash-area, vegetated-dune habitats even as such coastlines herald loose-colony and low-tide foraging Wilson's plovers shallow-scrape nest-housing. Physical and sexual maturity impels one breeding interlude, April through June, even as that interval's four 1.41732283- by 1.02362205-inch (36- by 26-millimeter) egg-maximum imperils already-declining populations.

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series jubilates June 2026, month three in Wilson's plovers breeding-season trio.

Coastal reefs, sand dunes and shingle beaches kindle driftwood-, grass tuft-, open ground-kept pebble- and shell-fragment nests kept together, or not, with pebble- and shell-fragment lining.

Wilson's-plover mothers-to-be launch daylight-laying and day-time lodging their eggs even as Wilson's-plover fathers-to-be log nightly nest-locating and nest-lodging and looking after single-brooded eggs, hatchlings, nestlings, fledglings. They manage 24- to 25-day-incubating two to four black- to silver-blotched, scrawled, speckled, spotted, buff-cream, buff-white to cream, non- to somewhat-glossy, oval to short-oval, smooth eggs. Downy, precocial ("before I-ripen," Latin prǣ- coquō), black-paired flanks-, mid-to-lower-back-, tail-, wing-lined; black-speckled, irregular-paired crown-lined; buff-white-headed, back-headed, underside-headed; silver-faced, silver-undersided, white-collared hatchlings nestle elsewhere for 21-day-fledging.

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar in National Audubon Society's Audubon Protecting Birds and Nature calendar series overlaps June 2026 and Wilson's plovers in last-chance, third-month single-broodability.

Wilson's plovers peregrinate hastily, horizontally, preferably proximitously to ground surfaces even as they prioritize direct, fast flight patterns whose ground-surface proximitousness protects them from predatory pursuers.

Mature females quarter adult-male colors and patterns even as they queue less contrast in head-color patterns and often-incomplete brow breastbands with minimal, or without any, black. Mature males reveal black breastbands, eyes, heavily long, stout bills; white eyebrows, foreheads, throats, underparts; brown upperparts; black-edged, white-barred brown wings; dusky-banded, white-edged tails; pink-legged pink-footedness. Physical, sexual maturity secures 6.5- to 8-inch (16- to 20-centimeter) body, 15.5- to 19.5-inch (39- to 49-centimeter) wingspan lengths; 2- to 2.5-ounce (55- to 70-gram) weights.

Audubon Birds and Nature Calendar teams June 2026 and Wilson's plovers even as the latter tone buzzy-descending, rattle-seried distraction; "peet"-short, "tweet"-slurred whistled-alarm; "pi-dit," short-"pip" flight calls.

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

What Languages Are in Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico?

What Languages Are in Seasons by the Lake by Naja Lund Aparico? What languages are in Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland by author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees for Dial Books March 17, 2026? What languages are in Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland by author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees for Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin/Random House Tuesday, March 17, 2026? The four-season book bears its biogeographical, biographical information in the English language even as the North-American, world-biggest island Greenland belongs autonomously to Northern Europe's Danish Kingdom Author Naja Lund Aparico, in her Postscript, characterizes as Kalaallit Greenlander the community whose nine story-configured members cluster around a lake shore somewhere along coastal Greenland The name Kalaallit Nunaat describes the indigenous Greenlanders who deploy Kalaallisut Greenlandic even as the afore-designated language dominates as official language and draws the most speakers Kalaallisut Greenlandic eliciting official-language status Sunday, June 21, 2009 ensues from Inughuit and Tunumiisut Greenlandic respectively enumerating 800 and 3,000 speakers in respective year-2010, year-2012 statistics Author Naja Lund Aparico figures island demographics at 56,000 Greenlanders even as perhaps they all function in Kalaallisut Greenlandic as Danish government-recognized minority and official languages The Eskimoan branch of Eskaleut-family Aleutian, Eskimo, Inuit, Unangan and Yupik languages of Arctic and Subarctic North America and Russia guards Inughuit, Kalaallisut and Tunumiisut Greenlandic The Greenlander Inuits ("the-people," Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ) linguistically host the Inughuit, the Kalaallisut, the Tunumiisut trio of the regional Greenlandic of respectively north, west and east Greenland Indigenous Inuit arctically, subarctically inhabit overseas-Denmark Greenland; Canadian-North Labrador and Quebec provinces, Nunavut, North West and Yukon Territories; Unitedstatesian-North (north and west Alaska); Russian-Far-East Chukchi peninsula Author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees linguistically jubilate Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland even as English and Greenlandic languages join them there The North-American and the Russian biographies of the indigenous Inuit kindle their knowing Eskaleut languages and such languages as Far-East Russian, Canadian English and Quebec French Erik Thorvaldsson (950?-1003?) and Hans Egede (Thu., Jan. 31, 1686-Sun., Nov. 5, 1758) leading Norse-language speakers perhaps lodged respective Icelandic and Danish languages on coastal-west Greenland Canadian and Unitedstatesian English, the Danish and the Icelandic languages, the Greenlandic trio perhaps matter respectively the most biogeographically, strategically, politico-economically, socio-economically, culturally in modern Greenland The English language nevertheless nudges forward the biogeographical narrative whose biographical narration nestles upon a Greenlander quintet even as Kalaallisut Greenlandic niches the 11 noteworthiest nouns Author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees offer original observations of Seasons by the Lake: Adventures in Greenland even as they operate in two languages Proper nouns predominate even as the Kalaallisut Greenlandic of west Greenland presents us Aanaa ("grandmother"), Arsarnerit ("Aurora-Borealis" or "Northern-Lights"; "the-[soccer-]ball-players" or "the-ones-who-play-[soccer-]balls" literally) and Minik ("skin-boated-kayak-/-umiak-sealing-oil") Both the proper nouns Nanoq ("polar-bear"; Ursus maritimus ["bear maritime"; Captain John Phipps (Sat., May 30, 1744-Wed., Oct. 10, 1792)]) and Nuka ("same-sex-younger-sibling") queue personal names

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The noun niviarsiaq ("young-girl") references national-flower dwarf fireweed ("broad-leaved," Chamaenerion[/Epilobium, Robert Sweet [1783-Tue., Jan. 20, 1835] latifolium; Carl Linnaeus [Mon., May 23, 1707-Sat., Jan. 10, 1778). The noun niviarsiaq ("young-girl") references national-flower dwarf-fireweed (Chamaenerion latifolium; Carl Linnaeus [May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778). The nouns nilak ("freshwater-/glacier-ice-piece") and suaasat ("soup/stew") suggest meal-time water and caribou ("caribou reindeer," Rangifer tarandus; Charles Hamilton Smith [Thu., Dec. 26, 1776-Wed., Sep. 21, 1859]).

Author Naja Lund Aparico and illustrator Alex Nees, through two languages, transmit qujanaq thanks for Seasons by the Lake and paggaa coin-throwing among Adventures in Greenland.