July 2017

Lady Slippers by the side of the road

Hand games ( a traditional Deneh game ) in Fort Smith. I love watching hand games. This is the only time form my experience when Deneh people who are usually so stern actually show passion

June 2017

TJe big thing in June was going to Lutsel k'e for Hide Tanning Camp. It was an awesome experience.

Making toast the bush way

Lutsel K'e the town

Madeleine Drybones, one of the elder there, an awesome woman!! She taught me how to tan beaver hides.

May 2017

I guess not a lot of photos taken in May

April 2017

This is the month when snow disappears

I made bread in a dutch cast iron on top of the fire for the first time

And I went to Fort Smith fishing derbies. Since it is way out of town in the bush and I don't have a skidoo it was a fly in for me

View of Fort Smith from the air as we get back into town

Before it all went there was quite a bit of snow....at least I thought so but this year it is way more

Redpole singing away

Even in April they like seeds

March 2017

I went to Fort Chipewyan fishing derbies

The mink being cute

The redpoles on a cold day, all fluffy and with ice crystals on their heads

February 2017

Since crossing the river requires making sure that the ice is strong enough where you cross after I find a path I mark it. This is the way everybody does it.

A fisher came to visit at night..... to look for food of course

Smaller creature: a mink

Squirrel: this is what they look like from underneath

Pine grossbeaks

January 2017

I'm going to try to put a few pictures foe each month of 2017.

The usual random stuff.

I did walk across the river (about 700m where I am) and here a view from the other side.

Me crossing.... with a long pole in my hand in case I go through the ice so I can use it to bridge across the hole to pull myself out. Just a safety measure.

Wow

Wow, it has been a long time.
I am going to try to get back to it

One New Visitor

The latest visitor, right in my yard, in fact at the bottom of my front steps.

Random Animals of this Late Fall, Early Winter

All those photos were taken at the cabin, not miles away in the bush apart from the coot.

Black wolf.

Boreal Chickadee

Coot

A fisher. I had  never seen one before, than I saw one in my yard and then later in the same morning I saw another one. Two the same day!!!

A fox

A ptarmigan

And ravens