Month: January 2015

There are some special places in BC that tease me. Places that I see just enough of to want to see much more, but the timing is never right to see it all. In 1985, some Smithers locals took me for a brief look at Twin Falls, long before...

I’m sure that you’ve all heard some of the quotes that say that when you get older, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the things you did do. The list of things I didn’t do seems quite small, so I’m okay with that, but a couple...

We continue to have an extremely warm winter with little snow. To say that it’s been an easy winter so far is an understatement, despite a few days of deep cold that brought with it great photo ops 🙂 When I saw these forecasts yesterday, it looked like a...

Just a few hundred yards from my quiet property is an abandoned stock car race track. The K.M.A. Speedway closed permanently in 2004, but this 3/8 mile semi-banked dirt oval provided Whitehorse residents with a lot of fun and excitement for over 30 years. Races were held by the...

I really like it when Mother Nature drops the temperature to bitterly-cold levels. It’s exciting. While I may not like every aspect of deep cold, recent posts by Yukoners on various social media sites show that many of us consider the cold to be more exciting or at least...