Northern Life
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Stand, watch
There was a fish derby today, down by the water lake. The whole family went down, as did a good many town's folk. As is usual in these things, I spent most of my time being distracted, rather than fishing. Once again Travis has shown is remarkable ability to detect birds. While we were standing
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Morning Light
As the speed we rush to the dark season quickens, the skies grow more and more beautiful. Perhaps it's compensation, perhaps its so we better appreciate the Sun slipping below the horizon. Today's sunrise.
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Grey
There is a skiff of grey ice on the bay this morning, and the most beautifully subtle light, accompanied by a light snow fall. It is unlikely that the ice will stay, unless we get a string of windless days, despite it being past normal freeze up time. Narwhal were there somewhere. A small pod
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Pause
Our internet, which was down the entire Thanksgiving weekend is back. The other things that are pulling me in other directions never left. While hopefully I'll finish working on a more substantial post I thought you might enjoy the views I had the other day. I'm not kidding when I say that the new sewage
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Winter of our discontent.
Winter descended on us this past week, not on cat's feet like Carl Sandberg's fog, but on grey skies and a cold southeast wind. I am so not ready for winter this year. It's not that it is unexpected. This is the beginning of October, and winter could have arrived anytime from the end of
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How to tell you’re a bird photographer in the Arctic
When you can snap a photo of a flock of about one hundred King Eider, while sitting in your truck waiting at the store for your family, and you can catch your house in the background.
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Slipping into night
I missed an important day the other day, caught up the whirlwind that was my first tradeshow. A place where I learned, by the way, that everyone in the business speaks some strange language dominated by acronyms. The Autumnal Equinox was this past week, and that means that I'll now have less sunlight than, well
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Umiarjuannguaq
We finished our coffee on a little raised gravel beach in Baillarge Bay (more on that later when I get it all sorted out) and toured around Baillarge Bay for a while, looking for seal and then turned for home. Baillarge Bay is truly a spectacular setting. More rugged and narrow than Strathcona and Adam's