vacation

I am going on holidays!When you look at this picture you can find the moon. It's coming into it's first quarter. I will be gone till the next new moon.
For two weeks of that time i will be in Holland. And i am looking forward to it very much. It's just when i am scrounging around in the forest and definitely on a gorgeous day like this, this is were i am on holidays, my vacation destination is where i live.

To be somewhat useful on the second last day of my 'vacation' (today), i went to cut wood. Don found some big ones. Here you see the roots of some of those spruce we cut.

When the tree is blown over you see how the roots are shallow and wide.

Don didn't cut down the following one. It was still standing, and still had a little life in it. You can see how it was damaged (probably animals, not people, because there... were no people here in our backyard.) early on in it's life.

It's spruce pitch you see, and it is so old it turned grey.

And the last picture, hmmmm i spotted an interesting mountain
sometimes how the light falls, it brings out a shape i didn't see before. Now that's what i think is a good destination for a holiday, and will only take me a day, to hike up to it.

ps Don thinks its a bit of a mirage. Yeah sure, i be hiking towards an illusion (and that sounds eerily like a preordaination of my life:)

Alexander Chisholme

There you go finally a picture of Alexander.
By Tom Patrick, Yukon News

quote: “I think Alexander’s strength was that his amplitude was right up there,” said Binsted. “Amplitude and clean execution were extremely important for these judges.”

Mary Binstead is Alexander's coach. She is great!!! I just use exclamation marks for lack of vocabulary.
I had to look up what amplitude means: greatness of extent, the maximum displacement from the zero or mean position of a wave or oscillation.
(I suppose you also know what oscillation means:)
ahhh but i will write it's meaning here too, because these are just such wonderful words. I love words, especially if it means something to me. Like something i always knew , but didn't have the words for.
So there you go, oscillation: the act of oscillating:). fluctuation, instability, variation. etc.

I know were Alexander gets it from, from me. I am an oscillator having amplitude. I love it :) Why not?

green eyes

Susan came out today, and i was happy to go up the mountain again. It looks like she was dressed for freezing temperatures, but i am happy to say we were overdressed totally.
we could have been hiking in shorts :) My face is glowing and i know i got a bit of a sunburn.
And really even on a summer hike it is hard to dress for the mountains here, as there is often a cold breeze in places.

Susan wants to take a short cut bush whacking, which i love, and i am glad she does too. we go through this enchanted forest. The poplars (aspen) have little burls on them.
and we come across the fresh porcupine tracks. A porcupine leaves a love track, this one 9 inches wide. It is a continues wavy track, their footprints not clearly distinguishable, as it leaves a wavy line in the middle from its tail.
The moose tracks were fresh too, So they both live there at the moment, i wonder if they walk and talk together too.

Not many people know i actually have green eyes. They often look blue. But i love it when people actually see, i have green eyes. (Thanks Susan, for capturing it)

We had our lunch on the bedrock, a bird had been here before us, and left a little bit of down

I wonder what kind of bird, yesterday there where some chickadees and a bigger bird.

This fluff wasn't there yesterday, so i wonder who left it.

The chickadees are singing their spring song, both yesterday and today, beautiful!

photo journal

looking into Kluane Range

climbing exposed rock
trudging through snow

to get to the foot of the mountain
expecting it all quite hard

someone gave me wings today

wild creature

Finally, climbing again
once a week is not enough for me
as i walk there is coyote, lynx and moose tracks and maybe wolf.
they all come towards me
which means they are were i came from....

Partly due to my guilt, having no wild places to tell you about or show you, i came out of my inertia and.....

i will do another post tonight

but who do i meet; the innocent porcupine "free yourself of guilt and shame" is what the oracle cards tell me. Ahhh there you go.

in inertia

in inertia

eyes closed images

in the silence i hear

a blue yellow spiral

colors unable to mix

always hungry

non words come to me

a library for liberation

wanting to be austerized

i look in to clear glass

it is black inside

GOLD!!

Yes!
In the snowboarding competition, Arctic Winter Games, junior male,
5 contingents were competing...

slopestyle, gold for -Mikkel Olsen-, Greenland
banked slalom, gold for -Ellan Cohen-, Alaska
half pipe, gold for -Pierce Mimura-, Alberta North
snowboardcross, gold for -Joel Dragon Smith-, Northwest Territories
overall, gold for -Alexander Chisholme-, Yukon Territories

Way to go Boarders everywhere!

(and why not have this count as a flash 55, check out Galen onspeeding