Month: May 2008

Darn, missed the May 3rd celebration of World Naked Gardening Day again. I just can’t think about gardening when there’s still snow on the ground, I suppose. This incredible weather, though, prompted me to check the date – and I suppose as with many special days, celebrating late is...

What a weekend that was! Yesterday it hit 27°C (80.6°F), a new record for the day (the previous record was 26.1 in 1947). You could practically watch the trees leafing out, and the snow melting from Golden Horn. The two photos below were taken from our breakfast table 24...

At the Carcross cabin, the arrival of Trumpeter and Tundra swans at Lake Bennett were always the first sign that Spring was nearing. At our new property, we haven’t had any clear sign yet – faint tree budding and some mildly energetic sprouting on the ground but nothing significant....

Driving down to Skagway with Cathy this afternoon (after 2 days of painting bedrooms), we met a fairly steady stream of Yukon RVs heading home after what had apparently been a pretty poor weekend weathwerwise. Check out the photo below to see what those folks missed, though – by...

Photographing your dream trip and sharing it with friends, as it happens or later, gets easier and cheaper all the time. Digital photography was the biggest change in that direction – where I used to always at least subconsciously ask myself if the photo I had framed was worth...

The wind has a bite to it, and most of the fence post holes I’m digging still get stalled when I hit solid ice a few inches below the surface, so today I took advantage of an opportunity to go to Skagway with my buddy Rob, who needed to...

It’s finally starting to feel like Spring, even though the wind still feels like it’s blowing straight off the glaciers. We’re in major renovation mode now. The wood I cut is almost all removed from around the property, though I have a lot of cutting-to-length, splitting and stacking to...

I had intended to post a fairly lengthy report about my trip home from Calgary, but there just aren’t enough hours in the day. I do want to show you a very special moment that happened during the trip, though. I left Stewart at 6:00 am (an hour before...