• Common Ringed Plover – Victor Bay

    and its nest.

  • Run

  • Under the rainbow

    Coming back from Victor Bay yesterday, after a long day painting and cleaning, there was a rainbow over Arctic Bay (the body of water). Just a fragment was visible, but it was reflected in the calm waters. It was mostly gone when I decided to try and grab a photo.  I actually like the photo…

  • Its only fair

    Seeing as I posted a photo of Travis with a puppy that I post one of Hilary also

  • Pacific Loon – recent photos

    Just a few photographs from the night before last.    While not a singularly great photo, this one shows the four "checkerboard" patterns on the bird's back.

  • Bursting from the sky, Prickly Saxifrage

  • The faces say it all

  • City of Dust

    We have had sublime weather so far this summer. It harkens back to the summers when I first arrived up here, before the world forgot that this is supposed to be a desert. Blue skies, punctuated by the occasional cloud, and lately, hardly a breath of wind. The downside to all this fantastic weather is…

  • Tired

    … so all you get are a bunch of random photos. Apparently Arctic Hares like to munch on poppies. Sled dog portrait An Arctic Trifecta: King Eider, Long-tailed Duck, and Red-throated Loon Hare today, gone in a couple of seconds Two Ravens playing with a feather Travis, Bolt and a couple of the pups

  • Purple

    I've set aside my plans to have a Big Year for the High Arctic this year. Due to work commitments and the growing and looming house work, and a sundry smaller things, I gave up on going to the Floe Edge, and to travelling to the southern reaches of Admiralty Inlet. Those two trips were…