I missed Wordless Wednesday but here's a picture for Thursday ... of a sunny Okanagan day in July. And another ... of the snowboarding venue for the Arctic Winter Games for 2018. We are starting to collect a lot of snow. Greetings and happy November from the Northwest Territories. 🙂
Tag: travel
Crossing the Mighty Mackenzie River
The Mackenzie River is the largest river system in Canada and the second largest in North America. It is so big that in places it looks like an ocean or huge lake. It even has a vanishing point. Driving across the bridge that spans the Mackenzie going south from Yellowknife doesn't capture that effect. However,…
Yellowknife
Yellowknife is pretty famous among tourists as a great place from which to see the Aurora Borealis. But a sunset is also quite wonderful. Yellowknife at night. A land of light within the dark.
Inuvik
For the past few days, I've been working in Inuvik, NWT, which is at 68° N latitude. It's very much the home of the all-night sun. I found these pretty cotton plants. And purple fire flowers. And the Mackenzie River, which is so wide that it looks like a lake. Greetings from the summery far…
A Drive through the Rockies
We recently left British Columbia to return to the Northwest Territories. We took a more northern route through the Rockies and past Jasper National Park. Before entering Jasper, we came up to Mount Robson. It's the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies. Although there was still some snow on the ground the temperature was two…
Yup – It’s Spring
I've been taking a break from the northern -20° climes ... Site of the juvenile snowboarding venue - 2018 Arctic Winter Games, Fort Smith, NWT ... and experiencing much warmer weather in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. 17°C to be exact. This is the NK'Mip First Nation winery and resort…
Bison on the Horizon
Last week M and I drove to Yellowknife for a conference. Six hours of driving through some pretty spectacular scenery - the best the Canadian Shield has to offer. Near Yellowknife Yellowknife has a sort of rugged prettiness about it. Sitting as it does on the edge of the world's 10thlargest…
Great Slave Lake Yields to Spring
At 60 degrees latitude, I am very far north here, but spring has now definitely arrived. The icing is disappearing from this cake. The sky is clear and so is the lake, achingly pristine ... Like MacArthur Park, it's melting in the dark. ... very different from…
A Few of the Blogs I Follow
Happy New Year! 🙂 I hope 2017 is off to a good start for you! To begin the year with the right winter flavour (Yup. I know. Some of you are in much warmer climes, and yes, I'm jealous), here's a seasonal winter picture that I took in my former hometown: …
A Day at the Museum
Recently, M and I spent a day at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, looking at the work of some of Canada's most famous artists. If you click on the pictures, you can get a better view of the paintings. I realise that they're not the best photos; I took them with my cell phone. Here…
