Month: December 2011

  • "Country Christmas"...

    Had a great break at Rocky Mt. House a "Country Christmas" camp with all the outdoor activities of riding

    at Millers, snowshoing and

    trying skating

    and cross country skiing I skied on Crimson Lake on Boxing Day half way around and back via the island...was sunny and clear....even left our jackets on a tree on edge. Here is the canoe decorated with lights in dining hall.

    The group was small under 25 and half were Chinese nationals and ESL students so much was done in Mamdarin as well as English.

    Good food and an outdoor Nativity scene in the barn on Christmas eve.

  • MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE


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  • Saturday lunar eclipse just before sunrise....

    A total lunar eclipse occurred early Saturday morning (Dec. 10), casting the moon into shadow and making it appear bright red and supersized.

    In North America, skywatchers located in western Canada and the United States should have had a great view of the eclipse, which started at around 7:45 a.m. EST (4:45 a.m. PST, 1245 GMT), when the Earth's shadow begins to creep across the lunar disk.

    Back porch, coffee and camera in hand...moving into total lunar eclipse!
    Backyard view...

     

     

    This was the initial phase about 655 AM

     

    About 705 AM



     

    Taken about 715 AM...the one I like the best 
     
     
    7:22 MDT the moon literally disappeared from view here in Edmonton.

     

    Totally disappeared by 725 AM as moon setting and sunrise an hour away....just a faint shape.


     

  • Aviva funds....vote for Nunavut's First Animal Shelter

    Glad to see this made it to the semi-finals.
    Having worked in the north the problem in isolated communities of unwanted dogs especially puppies is rampant.Not a total solution but certainly a beginning as iqaluit is a hub.
    Vote on Aviva if this touches you....

    www.avivacommunityfund.org

    Through the howling wind I could hear the whimpers of what sounded like a puppy. I bundled up and went outside. The wind was carrying the sound in all directions and the visibility was poor. After an hour search, I knew the sound was coming from a...

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An Albertan & Canadian, definitely a northern gal. Social worker by profession, this blog has included some of my work over 10 years in Nunavut from 2002 on. Passionate about slowing down & taking time to appreciate the beauty of the outdoors or kindness in relationships as gifts & blessings; injustices against children in situations beyond their control; my faith; Nature, experiencing the outdoors whether cycling, walking. x-c skiing or gardening, my dogs, capturing on film God's beauty, experiencing life intensely & with the senses, richness of late afternoon light, wind in my hair cycling with my dog on a beach road, couching inches from an arctic flower or alpine lichen to capture it with my camera, insight of a student's new learning, a good conversation over a coffee.

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