• Good news... first I am back in Edmonton...

Cannot believe it is August already time for last hikes and packing up the carvings. My little carvings mostly from younger carvers… Different perspective on some quartz and mica pieces I picked up from my hikes. Picked some arctic cotton to dry above one of my wall hangings.

Cloud berries evidence of the progressing summer..soon the blueberries will be ready in mid to late August but after my departure. (Arctic Willow Salix arctica family Salicaceae) is a tiny creeping willow typically a low shrub growing to only 1–15 cm (0.39–5.9 in) in height but here about 2-3 feet tall. The next shot of tiny yellow flowers are lovely. Quite amazed I got the detail of this shot used zoom but on landscape setting Prickly saxifrage I think or ???? maybe Cinquefoil, common name for any of various hardy annual and perennial five-fingered plants and shrubs of the rose family, found in northern temperate and frigid regions of the world. Growing to a height of 61 cm (24 in), the plants generally have five small leaves clustered in a circle and bear yellow or white five-petaled flowers.

Description of cinquefoil, its habitat, medicinal uses, and other useful tips.
http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_cinquefoil.htm

This boat is the Misty Maid that goes out in August to near Cape Dorset to bring back rock and soapstone for the carvers.

Here I come! An evening hike with Koda and distant look at the sea entry with tide out, very calm. Low tide...my office is with pink roof and Coop Inns North to the left About 8 PM on July 28, tide out and calm ...on my walk from office. Boys in front of my house Rainbow about 8 P M  on bikes and mosquito netting Evening rainbow over Anglican church  Waiting for next season. Rusted tin cans, again evidence that the arctic is not pristine as we leave our marks and garbage. Tied canoe in front of old HBC building