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Anchored down
I've been away from home for the past week. Work has taken me to Baker Lake, Nunavut's only inland community, in the Kivaliq region. I'm here for training workshops/conference with the other Economic Development Officers from across the territory. Bake Lake is windy. I have a few other impressions of the place (not many as…
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Redpoll resurgence
I didn't see a redpoll in Arctic Bay for the first several years I lived there. I knew they were a bird that was expected in the area, one that even apparently wintered there (and that alone should make them stand out), but despite that I seemed to live in an area devoid of them.…
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Nearby in the soil of Vimy Ridge
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More than a pittance
This is an expansion of the thoughts I was trying to express in my Remembrance Day address this morning, through my tears. Remembrance comes easy for me. I've had family in pretty much every major conflict from the Napoleanic Wars on through to Korea. My Great-great-Grandfather was at Waterloo, and he took a French bayonet…
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The right kind of attention from a Spammer
Most of my comment spam, which admittedly is pretty small all things considered, comes from the Philippines. Its pretty easy to spot, usually it happens on an older post, there'll be link to a commercial website and a comment along the line of "Thanks for the excellent post. It gives me something to think about." …
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Conversations with birds
It's I and the Bird #138, over at the incredible Susannah's Wanderin' Weeta. Do go and check out the many wonderful posts in the carnival. And do take some time to wander around Wanderin' Weeta. Susannah has a prodigious curiousity about life, and it shines through her blog.
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Missing inaction
Cenotaphs dot our country. Many towns across this country, small and large, have one to mark the sacrifices of young men (and occasionally young women) who died in the major wars we fought in after the Boer War. Sometimes, in small towns that have seen much better days, they sit tucked away, rarely getting much…
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Sunrise, or set, or rise, or… Gorgeous sky.
The sky at 11:00 am this morn.
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We come in peace
At one point in my career I was posted in a small farming community in Saskatchewan, and my second winter there saw the arrival of "Jay" (not his real name), a new recruit, fresh from Depot. Although I wasn't to be Jay's trainer, I was filling in for her on the first few days of…
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Sun Down
Yesterday was the last day that the Sun is visible in Arctic Bay until early February. Oh, in truth there is another week or so at this latitude with the sun, but given Arctic Bay's location nestled in amongst the hills and fiords, we won't see it here. This is what the sky looked like…
