2014 Nearly Over

Last night I went through all my photos for 2014, and there was a lot. I picked a few to post, it is not really meant as a summary, but nearly. Though some things that are important to me happened but did not make it to this photo blog, and some things of no importance are shown.

2014 started with me on the road, and indeed there was a lot of driving done.

Shadow of grass on rock.

A vulture taking off.

Seminole Canyon State Park.

The coast of Texas which was a big surprise to me.

Louisiana was not particularly on my bucket list but still a nice place to visit.

Mostly I wanted to see the Mississippi River, and here I am.

Seeing armadillos for the first time was great. They are truly very neat creatures.

... and then from swamp back to desert and the second time around Big Bend was in bloom when I went through.

Three Rivers Petroglyph Reserve... I took over a thousand pictures there

Airplanes are everywhere and go pretty much everywhere

Which can be pretty handy since I ended going to Malaysia

Then back to the Four Corner area.

 Just a sun-bathing lizard. I noticed last night that I took a lot of pictures of lizards.... and birds.

Monument Valley, which was also a bucket-list item.

And a long drive back to Canada.

Canada Day in the Rockies as I started my trip to northern Canada

Fall in the cabin.

Traditional moose tanning course.

Snow

Not a lot of snow really but snow, and some cold days.

some pretty cold days. This is a photo after a 8 km (5 miles) hike at -27C (-17F)

Random Pictures of early December

Where the river is still open you can see steam rising.

My Christmas tree, given to me by 5-year-old F. I love it.

The trees outside are all decorated with frost so no need for Christmas decorations.

Noon sun on December 18th, at latitude 60 degree North.

 One of my neighbors screen door with a little Canadian loon

Another cabin in the are where I live.

Details of a neighbors cabin.

Wishing you all very merry end of year celebrations and a very happy new year from the cabin in the woods.

Santa

I told Santa everything.....

Cooking at the Cabin

To cook the pumpkins from Halloween which were frozen outside and had never been carved I had to chop it with the wood axe.

Then I added some frozen goat I found in a store in Yellowknife.

And then on the wood stove, next to the big pot where I melt snow water and the pot with ginger and lemon always going.

Random Pictures of November up Here

I love the colours of the trees in the snow.

Birds prints. Somehow they seem to really like gravel that come out of the snow, or lie on top of it by the side of the road.

More buffaloes

The frozen Slave River

The freezing process is not entirely smooth so big chunks of ice are all over.

The junctions of the rivers

Before the Slave River froze, the edges had neat ice patterns.

 Ice crystals on top of the now frozen river

Ptarmigan prints in the snow

 Ptarmigan in winter plumage

Winter sun halo due to ice crystals in the air. Sun dogs are basically the shorten version of sun halos.