Northern Life

• They grow not old

  Remembrance Day is one of the most important days of the year for me. It is also a very emotional day for me, for I spend a good deal of it thinking about my Grandpa. I can easily see him in my minds eye, giving the Veterans Benediction at Remembrance Days long past.  If I

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• Freeze Up

  Arctic Bay has finally frozen over. I thought it was done yesterday however a large swatch of open water openned up in the middle.  This makes freeze up (if in fact the ice doesn’t disappear in the next few days) three weeks or so late.  Normally by this time hunters would be venturing farther afield

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• Sunset

  Today was our last day to see the sun for the next three months. Truth be told, we couldn’t see the sun today as it was overcast but had it been clear, we could have bid the old orb adieu until February. Technically at this latitude the sun is with us for another week, but

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• Finally? – Not!

  Yesterday I fully intended to write a post I was going to entitle Finally, as when I looked out in the morning ice was finally starting to form in Arctic Bay.  So far Arctic Bay is at least two weeks late for freezeup.  Normally by now, hunters would be venturing further afield by snowmobile, now

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• Happy New Years to all you Pagans out there

  November 1st used to be New Years Day for the Celts of old, and October 31st (before it was usurped by the Church) was thought to be the day when spirits and other goblins freely roamed the world. It was the underpinning of Halloween. A pope in the eighth century  made October 31st into a

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• More Google Earth

  Seeing as I have been playing with Google Earth so much lately, I thought that I would share a little more of my world with you. These are a few tents that are over at Victor Bay, this is the area where my in-laws always have their tent, but I’m not sure if it is

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• Arctic Bay from Space

  Darcy from Way Way Up, the other Arctic Bay blogger, posted a satellite photo of the north Baffin the other day on his blog. And proving once again that I don’t have an original thought in my head I thought that I’d carry on with the theme. We’re surprisingly well served by satellite imaging up

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• Leah Levi

  Arctic Bay lost another elder on Saturday morning.   Leah Levi was in her early seventies and a sweety, with a beautiful smile.  She lived for awhile in one of my favourite places in the Arctic, Dundas Harbour, and once when I had gotten some photos from a member who used to work there I took

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• Too warm!

  I’m the type of person who’d just as soon that the weather stayed cold after the onset of winter.  As much as I look forward to the spring thaw I don’t like any sort of freeze/thaw cycle. Winters arrived, it might as well stay that way. So, I’m not enjoying the weather of the last

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• Some Trips are Like that

  (or we went fishing and all we brought back was these lousy pictures) We decided yesterday to take a trip to Kahula Lake to try and catch some char from the newly formed ice. Leah’s mom & dad and several others had gone up by ATV earlier in the day, and we drove up in

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