Northern Life
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Doo doo doo, lookin’ out my front door
I don’t know why, but there is just a certain cachet in having a helicopter parked in your front yard.
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Breaking up is hard to do
Break up this year took forever. Not that it’s late or anything, depending on how you look at it is roughly on time or ten days to a week early. It started early, but what normally takes place over two or three days went on for a week or more. This photo (or rather series
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Some Random Scenes
I don’t seem to have very many words inside me lately, I guess I’m leaving too many of them behind writing and rewriting what seems to be the same scenes in the screenplay over and over, and then putting it back the way it was. So… here are some photos instead. Random scenics from the
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High Arctic Barbarque
Although I made light, in my last post, of our lack of campfires up here, we do have them. Yesterday after we finished picnicking at Uluksan we took a drive over to Victor Bay to enjoy the sun, and watch the comings and goings. Fragrant smoke coming from the neighbourhood of a friend’s tent ,
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My boy is back.
Travis is home. After nearly two weeks on the land; picking Goose eggs, fishing, hunting seal, eating flowers, hiking to waterfalls and watching birds. He's back a little early because of a bout of stomach flu, but he seems better and I don't mind his early return at all. I've missed my boy. Tomorrow we
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Permafrost
One of the features of the Arctic is rather, well, featureless. At least in terms of features we can easily see, but permafrost is an essential characteristic of the Arctic. It is a feature that allows plants to survive in the desert that is the High Arctic, and a force which shapes our terrain, and
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Yes, that is snow…
Believe it or not there is a mountain across there. A huge low pressure system is parked a little south west of us right now, after leaving snow on much of the rest of Baffin Island. Want to bet that mountain will be white tomorrow morning?
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Sleeping with Dan
I am occasionally afflicted with insomnia. Not that often but from time to time I just can't fall asleep. It's not the light, after years of shift work I had my circadian rhythm beat out of me. I can sleep when it's light, dark, morning noon or night. For some reason I think our brains