Category: Art & Artists

This is blog post #14 from our tour of Europe. On Sunday, July 6th, we cruised through spectacular fjords to and from Alta, and visited the UNESCO-listed prehistoric rock art site near Alta. My day began early as always – the first photo was shot at 04:25 ater I...

This is blog post #13 from our tour of Europe. On Saturday, July 5th, we were docked at Hammerfest, Norway, from 08:00 until 23:00. We had no plans, but I ended up having a very busy day with some excellent hiking. Located at 70.4° North Latitude, Hammerfest has a...

This is blog post #5 from our tour of Europe. After 7.4 km of walking to experience a bit of the Louvre Museum the morning of Thursday, June 26th, we had a walking tour of Île de la Cité, where Paris began, booked for that afternoon. It was a...

The Louvre Museum is overwhelming. Unless you’ve led a very different life than I have, nothing you see or read with prepare you for it. The onslaught of information, the sight of some of the world’s finest and most famous works of art, is an experience I can’t yet...

Sunday, November 24th – Day 10 of my trip, and the last full day away from home. The warm sun was gone but I had a day and a half to spend with family. Neither Andrea nor I were pleased to see this… …but she suggested that we head...

Ajo was a surprise to me. I had never heard of it, and it didn’t look like much from a quick search while I was planning this trip. But I wish I had had 3 days to explore, because it’s got a fascinating history and the surrounding country has...

One of the most iconic and beloved buildings in the circumpolar North is Inuvik’s Roman Catholic church, Our Lady of Victory, commonly called “the Igloo Church” because of its shape. I told my friend Tyson that my #1 wish was to see inside the church again and photograph it...

In this post I’m going to assemble three little tours of downtown Inuvik, starting at 9:35 pm after getting back from Tuktoyaktuk, with a look at some of the public art downtown. First is a mural painted by Brian Macdonald in 1994 – it shows the Rec Hall, constructed...

I wrote this post and had it basically ready to post on January 5, 2021, but just didn’t know what to do with it. But today is the third anniversary of the day the glass trolley was delivered, and looking at the draft version of the post anew, I...

Dealing with death is a very personal experience, handled in an infinite variety of ways. People thinking about dying, and those dealing with the death of a loved one, have their own ideas about what to do with the body. Some choose burial, most of the others choose cremation....