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Prickly Saxifrage
Easily one of the prettiest flowers here, Prickly Saxifrage (Saxifraga tricuspidata) always gets my attention. Small cream coloured flowers with orange spots rise above sharp leaves, often red, that are low to the ground. They tend to be found in drier spots, and one place they abound is on the hills above the inflow of…
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Still Water with ice
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King Eider (Somateria spectabilis)
From high on a hill you could see them coming. Low to the water, stretched out in a line. Forty King Eider that, if they continued on their path, would pass a little way off shore below me. This time of year we often see large flocks of King Eider, mostly males and immatures, around…
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It was forty years ago today
It was not to be a summer like any other. Not for a 10 year old boy, who dreamed of space, and who was unabashedly a NASA nerd. Nothing had ever captured my attention like the space program, nothing. And to think that summer, the holidays between grades IV and V would actually see men…
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Pillowy Soft
It seems to be a bit of a photo mainstay across the north right now, from Sweden to Alaska, and on Facebook as well. So here, from last night, are a couple of shots of Arctic Cotton (Eriophorum sp.). The title of the post is even more appropriate when you read allycke's post about it's…
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Say you were one of our clients…
… and you were standing in our great room, sipping on a delightful sustainable coffee. This is what you'd see…
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Paradise…
… for a Baird's Sandpiper must look like the dry tundra around Marcil Lake (our water source). Wednesday night, a foul mood forced me out into the foul weather. I needed to get out of the House, out into the wild. I needed to get the smell blown off me as my Grandpa would have…
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Bright shining moments
It's been pretty sucky weather wise for the past several days much of our short summer. But it makes it easier to take delight in a shaft of light illuminating a mountain through the dark sky.
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Drifting
The iceberg that has spent the better part of the last year in Arctic Bay has been an unending source of entertainment and photographic inspiration for me. I'm not sure if you've tired of seeing the myriad of images of the same mass of ice over that time, but I have yet to tire of…
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Placemarker
I'm back from an abbreviated camping trip with Travis, and apparently my calender is full for much of the day or the next three. Here's a photo from the trip to hold your interest (?) until later.
