"Urban Wilderness" is a blog created by a person living an urban life in Montreal, Canada. This blog features many pictures of plants and animals living in the urban jungle. The creator of this blog has chosen to be anonymous, but this animosity does not prevent this blogger from showing their personality and emotions. The motto at the top of this page says, "Quasi-controlled chaos in a Montreal back yard," meaning the pictures featured are seemingly serine scenes of pure nature. Though the most recent post was from September (a few months back), following "Urban Wilderness" in hope for another informative addition to this page is well worth the wait.
Though every post on this blog features a picture of either animal or plant life, the real blog post is in the words under those pictures. You can see how passionate this blogger is about their topic of urban nature because, not only do they tell you the proper names of every plant and animal, but they also give in-depth descriptions of statics such as the height or age of certain living things featured in the photographs. Along with the cold-hard-facts of the matter, there is also much emotion poured into every picture. Some photos show creatures such as squirrels and raccoons in this person's back yard and they are tied with a few paragraphs written by the blogger explaining the story of why they decided to photograph or bother with the animal in the first place. Many of these descriptions mentioned feature rhetorical strategies such as allegories, alliterations, allusions, analogies, antithesis, climatic syntax, ellipsis, epistrophe, interruptions, hyperbole, metonyms, litotes, periphrasis, synecdoche, syndeton, polysyndeton, and zeugmas. An example of interruptions in a sentence would be from her post from June 6, 2011 titled "Lesson Learned -- The Hard Way" where she explains how she benefits from being stung by a bee:
"I'm not feeling too happy about my plight either -- my hand is swollen and discoloured and hurts! Hmmmm -- hold on -- there is a silver lining!"
Another example (this time, of an ellipsis) is from her June 21, 2011 blog titled "...(sort of) straight rows of veggies!"
This blog, I suspect from being helpful in both informative and emotional ways, has 101 followers thus far. Also, unlike many of the other blogs I've been following, this Canadian has received tens of comments on some of their posts. I enjoy reading through and learning fun facts I never knew about nature while also seeing beautiful photographs of Montreal urban life. Especially, I enjoy the 2008 posts made about raccoon sightings. I would suggest you read them first if you would like to get a feel of what upcoming posts will be like.
If you would like to follow "Urban Wilderness", please follow the link below:
http://urbanwildplants.blogspot.com/
Stay in the clouds, Cadets...
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