On my way to visit "gramma", I took the back road to Porter Creek (the road to the golf course) and snapped this picture. That small strip of white is the Yukon River. If you take time to look at the scenery while golfing, this is the type of views you'll see. As well, the ravens catch the up-draughts off the banks and it's fun to watch them playing.

My friend sent me this shot of the Llewellen Glacier. This is her job! She was scouting out film locations for future movies that may be filmed here. This glacier flows into the southwestern tip of Atlin Lake from the Juneau Icefields, one of the larges icefields on the continent, spreading from the Atlin, B.C. region almost to the salt water at Juneau Alaska.

Easter's a time for visiting and luckily I had my camera during a couple of visits. Had the traditional ham dinner with all the fixin's. It was very good. Now I'm ready for spring to come full force. I'm tired of winter - snow, below freezing temperatures, ice - yuk. My birder neighbour must have all the birds in the Yukon in his yard. Their chirping is music to my ears, although it does bring back memories of being in Lesvos, Greece (Skala Kaloni, I think it was) during the bird migration and their lovely little songs were driving us mad - thousands upon thousands of birds chirping from 4AM to 10PM non-stop...chirp,chirp,chirp,chirp,chirp,chirp,chirp,chirp,chirp,chirp,chirp,chirp ... we thought we were going to go crazy. Now I just have to see my first robin, then I know we're home free.

Hey Will, look what I found while I was walking. I thought of you right away and wondered if you had packing snow yet to make a snow man and either send me a picture of it or a drawing of it. I would love to have either.

Even walking through suburbia here, one can follow a wee path and end up overlooking an expanse of land that can take your breath away. I picked up a small pocket camera (in cobalt blue, my latest favourite colour) so am testing it's abilities during my walks.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everyone. It couldn't come much earlier in the year than this. Easter always reminds me of sunny days with birds singing and flowers blooming -- new spring dresses and Easter bonnets (too bad they are out of style, they were so much fun). Not this year. Although hovering around the "0" mark, the wind, snow, and ice make the outdoors unpleasant (especially that wind). This morning it is snowing nice big fluffy flakes under a grey/white sky. Nice weather for the beginning of winter. On the brighter side, it won't be -40 again for a while. And I am having a wee Easter dinner, so I am looking forward to that. And I have a lot to be thankful for, so slowing down, enjoying the holiday, sharing it with good friends and having time to reflect are appreciated. Hope the Easter Bunny found you!

In case you've forgotten what I look like, here is a portrait painted for me by my son (when he was 3 years old). Notice my long flowing hair - it is now short.

Cruising around doing chores, I stopped to take this picture of a totem pole which is downtown in Rotary Park . I took this especially for Will (age 7) who fell in love with totem poles when he visited the west this past summer. Sorry Will, I forgot to show you this one.

Saw "I'm Not There" on Monday. It is the Bob Dylan movie that has 5 actors portraying different periods in Dylan's life - starring Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and many more. A very long, but very interesting film. I enjoyed it.
Also saw "Juno". The adults liked that film as much as all the teenagers in the theatre. Wow, the good movies just keep on coming. It's like a monsoon after a drought.

Ontario

We're pretty luck here way up north. Our temperatures have been hovering around the "0" mark, sometimes sunny when the snow melts like crazy and sometimes overcast (which is a bit dull, but warm). My sister email this picture to me on Sunday after their snow storm in Ontario. That's quite a bit of snow to shovel!

Just a quick blog to let you know I'm still kicking. My flu only lasted the weekend, so am back to normal now. Trying to do income taxes and as you can see am not doing very well -- I'd rather be blogging!
It's been a movie month for me. The Yukon Film Festival is currently on - that is an excellent movie every Monday. And there are also excellent movies currently playing in town (we have only two theatres with 2 movies each). Sometimes there is nothing of interest to watch and now there is a lot. So, see 'em while you can. The weather has warmed up, thank heavens. Not like Toronto and the east coast. My good friend has gone off to Hawaii (can you hear the jealousy?) and my sister invited me to vacation with them in Dominican Republic, but I think I will just hold off for now and enjoy WINTER some more.