summer

here it is very cold, and one wonders if fall has sneakily started, a little too early, mostly the middle of August and then our fall time can be very beautiful, real winter doesn't set in till October.

ahhhhh our seasons very clearly divided.Yet Summer for me is a time, that first you can't believe that it is actually summer all the green and warmth. Today i know again that winter will come again, so now that is in the back of my mind, that winter will be here soon. Hardly ever is summer here totally, where it totally enters your bones.

I long for summer deep in my bones

Yet it is summer very much and i love it, even with the woodstove heating the house.

Selena

Selena, the first person i met in my life that is actually braver than i am to jump into to frigid Yukon lakes or rivers.
Dezadeash Lake July 13 2011,
Today she jumped into the even colder Kusawa Lake, on a cool cloudy day.
wow!

who is that singing in my garden

Is it Phoebe?

rosely

Artemisia furcata

Artemisia furcata
June 25 2011
Kusawa Ridge

new camera

Hi!
now after several beautiful trips, with the camera not working i bought a PowerShot Sx130 IS. I think it will do, i am quite pleased with two following photos


First i couldn't find the self timer, and was very upset about that, then i didn't like the macro setting.
But i think it will all be fine :)
So easily upset
Why?
hmmm but then there is my son, who is coming home but now stuck in Grand Prairie where his car broke down. That too will be solved somehow. That creates a deeper kind of concern in me, but nothing much i can do now, so i send him good vibes.

And then that my skype is not working, really, that doesn't bother me at all any more
yet i do have to deal with that some time too, because i like skyping with my family and friends.
And being in this space of what needs to be done, i don't like that
ahhhh there is always too much, somehow.

Now...
i will sit happily with my books, identifying the flowers i encountered yesterday on Kusawa ridge,
all from memory, no photos, not even notes

it was a most beautiful hike btw

have a lovely sunday!

list of flowers i saw today

My camera is not working

first the smell of wild roses
pink every where - prickly rose
then the bluest cobalt blue - yukon beardtongue
bright yellow - arnica
little saxifragas,(three different kinds)
pussy toes,
tiny white and purple mustards - Arabis
- Northern Jasmin
and probably more
this was on the way along the path towards
The mountain is the garden
flowers everywhere
a sea of cream - Mountain Avens
and when i look closely lilac in every shade - Phlox
blowing in the breeze the large (comparatively) cream/bluish flowers -an anemone, the wind flower
And there from far i see the dark pink from the douglasia
ehhh it is the douglasia not moss campion and it is fragrant
i have put my nose to it and it has the sweetest scent.
agggghr i stop because i lost it again, last month i spend days identifying douglasia
now i do not know......
What i saw was gorgeous a pink cushion sometimes a foot in diameter and it's fragrant
I am lost.....

Okay lets just continue
i saw fragrant fern (yes it smells too, very strong very sweet, lovely)
- for-get-me-nots
- blackish (purple) oxytrope (tiny tiny)
low laying but very dark purple -lupines
small with big flowers -bluebells
and then the deep pink amazingly big and standing up straight - woolly lousewort
and then there was bright yellow big flowered tiny plants - cinquefoils

more will come to me
it was wonderful, it was at Stony Creek

I believe this mountain has flowers that according to the literature do not grow here.

Glorious!

the little bells of various berries -vacciniums, blueberries and cranberries
- labrador tea
and oh my how can i forget the Lapland Rosebay! A wonderful looking out of place, yukon rhododendron bush (small nevertheless, maybe a foot high and not quite a foot high)

And i saw a fireweed blooming! (my first this season)