Category: Seasons

According to The Weather Network, it’ll be darn near Spring, with temperatures hitting about 0°C (32°F). Given the accuracy of weather forecasts, I’m not going to hold my breath, though 🙂...

Sorry, the reds, yellows and oranges you were hoping for dropped onto the ground many weeks ago. The photo below was shot on the way home from Whitehorse at noon today. The colours of Fall are now black and white. I fired up my SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) therapy...

With the temperature forecast to dive to far-below-normal in the next few days, much of yesterday was spent doing some pre-winter maintenance around the house. The “must-do” job was the semi-annual water change and cleaning of the hot tub. It’s a pretty simple process – drain, scrub it down...

Winter can come now – I have 2 years’ worth of firewood in the yard, one year stacked and dry, and both cars are in the slightly-heated garage. The power outages that are becoming a regular occurrence are a minor nuisance, but the house will stay warm and we...

As colourful as our property is right now, yesterday was a good opportunity for a Fall Colours Tour. We decided to head west along the Alaska Highway for a change, and Burwash Landing would make a good turn-around location. It was a long day – we put just over...

What a glorious time of year this is. Despite the cool temps and the wet, it’s wonderful to watch the world sprouting in various ways. Sometimes it’s a nuisance – with the lodgepole pines letting loose clouds of pollen the past few days, everything from cars to patio furniture...

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....

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 not really Spring yet with well-below-freezing temperatures every night, but many folks in the North are digging their way into Spring, if not Summer. Up in deep snow country (the White Pass), the Yukon Suspension Bridge has the trenches dug into the property, now has to wait for...

When I posted last Saturday that Winter was over, I must have tempted fate, because Father Winter returned the next day and got the de-icing crews at YXY back to work. We’ve had a good run of days now where the temperature gets above freezing for a while now,...