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Ice flowers
It seems, these days, that photos have taken over my blog. There are things to write about, its just easier this way right now, and it feels like everywhere I look I see a photo opportunity. So for something completely different I give you, flowers and the iceberg. Well, okay, perhaps not "different" but… like…
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Botonizing
This past winter my friend Larry, who is behind the amazing writing of the blog botonizing, asked if I had seen a particular flower up here. Larry is a Botony professor out west, and I had to contact him, now that we are into wildflower season, for a reminder about what plant he was interested…
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Breaking up is…
…easy to do, and a little bumpy and a little early this year. Not much, about a week. Over the last couple of days it was obvious that breakup was under way in Arctic Bay, but early this morning the wind came up out of the South East, blowing a gale. We had 25 knot…
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My children, last night
You'll have to indulge me a moment as I post some photos of Hilary and Travis. The Hilary photos are from Uluksan Point, Travis' are from Victor Bay. Picking flowers. Nothing says "Arctic" like a child in an amautiq, picking Arctic Poppies, with an iceberg in the background. Inuksuit be damned. She had, moments before,…
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Wooly Lousewort
One of my favourite, funky, flowers… the Wooly Lousewort Pedicularis lanata
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Just desert?
The area I live in is a part of the High Arctic Desert. Long term average precipitation is something in the neighbourhood of 9 inches per year, divided roughly half and half between rain and snow. Although it varies, the last few years have shown a big increase in our rainfall, something in the order…
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Bad photographer. Bad!
A few days ago the sun once again showed itself briefly late in the day, about 11pm or so. As I had seen what I thought was a Red-throated Loon on a nest on an island I decided to head out that way and try my luck. Sure enough, the loon was in the same…
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Flower season
… is upon us. It's timing is a little off kilter this year. I would have expected to see more flowers blooming by now, yet at the same time some seem to be finishing already, a little early. I've grown a little frustrated by my switch over to RAW from JPG, as it has added…
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Dramatic sky
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Drop The Pop
I may have mentioned this before, but pop (or as some of my friends in the States refer to it: Soda) is like crack cocaine up here. Seriously. The stores in Arctic Bay ran out of the pop that came up on Sealift in May, which basically means the community is out of pop for…
