Northern Life

  • Monday Miscellany

    The title of this post (and the idea behind it) was shamelessly, shamelessly stolen from Seabrooke's wonderful The Marvelous in Nature. Truth be told I'd be much better served by stealing her writing skills, or her skills as a naturalist, but alas I have to make due with mine. I'm behind. It seems that every

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  • Grocery Delivery

    The first sealift ship of the season has arrived, late last night around 10:00pm

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  • Warm

    I've not warmed to HDR photos quite yet. Having said that, sometimes it really works.  I think this photo was one of those times.

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  • Seal watch

    The weather this past weekend was golden. Calm, sunny and temperatures around 10C to 12C. It was what this summer should have aspired to be. We took advantage of it, berry picking, drives and hanging out outside. Late last week we discovered that a large iceberg that had been grounded out at Nuvua (one of

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  • Berry season

    The Blueberries are ripe. Well some are, and others are heading that way. I've grown to appreciate the blueberries up here, although I have to admit I mocked them for awhile. After other places I've been, I found them small, and few and far between. Ah but now, now I know they have a rich

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  • The sky at this moment

    One of the nice things about the sun being on the verge of setting for the first time in three months is that the light is wonderous right now. The landscape shimmers and changes with each passing moment. And the skies, from now on take on a quality that is magical. This is the sky

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  • Brigadoon

    This summer has not only been cloudy and rainy for the most part, but it seems as though there has been fog hanging about most every day. The past three days or so the wind has had a chill to it as fog poured over the hills into town. It does make a pretty picture

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  • Camp Temporary

    Okay, I've been lazy. Its been much easier to post photos than to take the time to write anything. And as a result I'm getting farther behind on posts I've wanted to write.  It is hard to believe more than two weeks have already past since I had not only a day off, but the

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  • Fog

    It is pouring here right now, a steady heavy rain that is already muddying up the bay with run off (because of the permafrost all of our precipitation ends up as run off, it is unable to soak into the ground deeper than a few inches).  I also saw my first flash of lightening here,

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