Versicolor.ca is the domain name for web space that I manage, the “I” being David Patriquin (aka JackPine, JackPine22) of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The webspace serves several community groups as well as personal interests, those relating mostly to natural history and environmental matters.
I am a ‘Nature Nut’, fortunate to have spent most of my working days in Nova Scotia and as a faculty member in the Biology Department of Dalhousie University. I retired in 2008. Now I spend as much time as I can walking, always with a camera in hand, within my my “BioRegion“. I am active in several natural history, trail and environmental groups.
My hand-coded versicolor.ca home page, installed in 2003, was getting cluttered. So the initial impetus for creating this website/subsection of versicolor.ca was to clear some space on the home page by moving the odds’n ends to this site. As the materials are all nature related, I figured “Nature Notes” would be an appropriate name. Read more…