Happy New Year! 🙂 Right now we are surviving temperatures that are about -35 C. That's pretty cold although I have experienced colder. When it's this cold, it's hard to remember that summer existed. It's just a dim memory. I pass this bush every day on my way to work. And yup, I walk to…
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Meltdown
I first published this post in 2012, not long after I started this blog. I was particularly annoyed about how pushed I felt to participate in the buying of stuff and produced this rant. I've made a few changes to it but otherwise, here it is again, in all its grinchy glory. Ahhh ... Christmas.…
Twisted Seasonal Songs
And now ... the moment that no one has been waiting for! It's Twisted Seasonal Sing-Song Time!!! Good King Donnie T (to the tune of Good King Wenceslas; arr. L. d'Arty-Cross) Good king Donnie T looked out On the Feast of Stealing, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone Till's head…
Northern Sunset
A recent flight to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories produced this airport photo of the setting sun. Fabulous colours. In this northern clime, the position of the Earth relative to the sun produces these spectacular, angled sunsets. A few days ago, I took this photo as part of a series of shots. [caption…
Winter Skies
Here on the edge of Great Skave Lake, where I am north of 60 degrees N latitude, I feel like I am living inside a winter post card. The light here is diffused by the sun's angle. We are only getting about six - seven hours of daylight now but the…
Enjoy the Fabulous Humour of Brian Lageose
1. Thelma and Bleu Cheese An unhappily-married woman gets fed up with, well, everything, so she hops in a car and decides to just drive places and see what happens. All of her girlfriends have mani-pedi appointments that they don’t dare break, so Thelma is forced to take along a bottle of salad dressing to […]…
I Awoke to This
North of 60 degrees N latitude, winter starts early and spring starts late. Yesterday, I awoke to this: Winter is coming. It had rained during the night, and then the temperature had dropped enough for it to change to snow, at about -1 celsius. Much different from this recent experience: [caption…
Happy Thanksgiving
Great Slave Lake I have much to be grateful for. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. 🙂
Don’t Leave Home Without It
A couple of nights ago, I took this photo of the Aurora Borealis. See anything? You might see a little something, but you will have to enlarge it - a lot. Living north of 60 degrees N latitude means that the Aurora is spectacular. From the south, the Aurora assumes a…
