Category: Seasons

The roads were in fairly good shape yesterday so I thought that I might get one more ride on the motorcycle before putting it into storage for the winter. The photo below was shot a few minutes ago – it turned out to be not as bike-friendly a day...

The Labour Day long weekend is a rather manic time in the North. Everyone is doing something outside, knowing that this is the last good-weather long weekend we’re going to see until May. Whether it’s berry picking, hiking, boating, camping or just getting out for a scenic drive, it’s...

Yesterday was a fine Spring day in Whitehorse. Flower buds are poking out of the ground everywhere – crocuses, Arctic poppies, delphiniums and fireweed the most noticeable on our property. Kayla and Monty don’t even want to come in the house anymore 🙂 The snow is rapidly melting off...

In the southern Yukon, the arrival of migrating swans is the first sign that Spring is getting close, but the first sign that Spring has arrived is the budding of the crocus – the first hairy little bud has now pushed up through the forest floor a few feet...

The best of my Skagway trips each year is the one when the smell of Spring is in the air. Today I made that trip – oh how I love the smell of a coastal forest in the Spring! After the welcome Cathy and I got two weeks ago...

This has been the sort of day that you have to just laugh about. The forecast called for snow flurries with about an inch accumulation. What we got was fairly light but steady snow for hours, with about 2 inches in Mary Lake and almost 4 inches in the...

While out on our walk around the property yesterday, I spotted the first pussy willows of the year. It seems very early, but I’m certainly not complaining! This has been the easiest winter I’ve ever seen in the Yukon 🙂 This trail runs along our back property line. Through...

What a day that was! While not quite suntanning weather yet, it felt like Spring. The temperature hit +1°C here in Mary Lake, and I saw +3 on a Whitehorse report. We started really noticing the change in the light about a week ago – this is when most...

That’s what’s happening to the green part of my world – it’s rapidly disappearing under a blanket of white. And that makes me want to disappear under a blanket of wool for a few months…...

The rest of the firewood logs have now been delivered, and due to a breakdown of the trailer dump, the timing worked out very well. It was only possible to get 3 loads dropped out of the way – load #4 was going to block entry to the portable...