Category: Seasons

For many of us in Whitehorse, seeing the first Prairie crocuses is a big deal. I’ve hiked at two possible places for them recently – Hospital Ridge and the Lewes River Dam – with no luck, so yesterday went to the spot that usually results in seeing the early...

This post was spurred by Facebook Memories, which yesterday morning showed that I go out for Winter Solstice drives often, sometimes as far as the White Pass or Kluane Lake. With the temperature sitting at -38°C, I wasn’t going to do a long drive, but the city offers great...

We’re having a very gentle start to winter, but the skies are almost always cloudy, and that’s affecting many of us. Yesterday I fired up the Jeep and went looking for some sun. I went to bed very early the night before last because the skies had cleared late...

The e-bike ride on September 13th was excellent so I was really looking forward to getting on the V-Star (“the noisy bike”) for a lengthy ride out to Kluane Lake and back the next day. This is a fairly common ride for me – while the ride isn’t overall...

I’m a week late with this post – it’s now full-on Fall, and night-time lows have hit -5°C/23°F at least 3 times in recent days. A bit of snow is forecast by the end of this week. But on September 12th, our amazingly warm and sunny Indian Summer was...

I always get a bit impatient this time of year – we’re having a lengthy spell of spectacular days, but the nights are still well below freezing (it’s -6°C/+21°F at the moment and I just lit the woodstove), so few plants are in bud yet. There are a few...

That was a very easy Winter we just had, and I’m craving Spring now. But Mother Nature has gotten lazy, and the advance towards Spring has stalled out. For the past 2-3 weeks, and the 2 weeks ahead, highs are just above freezing and the lows just below freezing....

Each summer, Cathy and I try to have one special day tucked away to remember when it’s 40 below zero – Sunday, August 27th will be that day this year. The fireweed on our property are the first of the Fall colours to get photo-worthy, but others won’t be...

Just about the time I was going to just give up on Spring, it’s here. Well sort of… Now that the nights are a bit above freezing, the back yard is opening up quite nicely. Bella and Tucker are very happy to have a larger world, and grass. I...

This will be a significant first-afternoon-of-Spring today. Significant because I didn’t expect to be alive to see it. I was going downhill so fast that after my doctor asked if I had my estate in order (a year or so ago) and a few weeks later said we could...