Light on the hills

From the porch of our place, you can look across town to see Frobisher Bay. 

I know that maybe fuel tanks are not the most beautiful sight, but i like the shape of the hills on the other side of the bay. 

I particularly like how the light and clouds change the face of it, on nearly an hourly basis.



The hills tinged with pink at 10:30pm

Movie Time

I have work to do but am going to fall into bed.

I watched a fabulous movie today on Inuit facial tattoos with two women who had it done after 5 years of research.

We had both filmmakers there. Wow.

 Then dinner out on Frobisher bay. Beautiful. A bit overwhelming but beautiful.

Tomorrow I teach criminal law and Kikkik for the day.

Hopefully it will be fun.

Rebecca

Not the 'no trees' of the prairie

It is hot today, and the snow is melting and running off the roof like in a rain storm.

Weird... the sound of the rainstorm, and a gorgeous blue/white cloud swept sky, where the snow on the ground reflects the light in a blinding way.

And no trees. I don’t know quite how to describe that. It is not ‘no trees’ of the prairies, but one could do comparisons.

You can see forever!

Rebecca

A Picnic on the Rocks

arriving at the Iqaluit airport, noon on June 2

It all turns on a dime. The weather.

We arrived just after lunch on June 2.

By 7pm, we were having our picnic on rocks by Apex (on Frobisher Bay).

By midnight, my housemates Eloise, Rob and Darcy had gone to bed.

June 2, 1:00am <br/>Iqaluit

At 1am, I took a picture out the window. 

There were street lights on, but you didn't really need them.

By 7am, I woke to snowflakes swirling around: yep, a blizzard.

 And now the town is covered with an absolutely beautiful bed of white. 

... blinding beautiful ...

Beautiful and blinding. I understand how it is that sunglasses were invented by the Inuit. Put the pristine white together with the hours of sunshine, and it is blinding (blinding beautiful!)


Flying over land...



flying over land, on the approach to Iqaluit

Flying over the water was great, but so was flying over land. 

You can trace the striations cut into the rock from glacial movement.

 ... circles in the stone? ...

John Borrows (who had the aisle seat, and thus the responsibility for taking photos with my camera) pointed out the circle that seems carved into the land in the second photo.  

Cool. 

Also, notice that there are no trees.  It is an absolutely stunning landscape that is so unlike the landscapes of the south.

Rebecca

Flying over water and ice...



flying over the open sea

 It was an amazing flight in.

I did not expect the water to be so blue.

It was quite something to see the floe edge: the place where frozen ice meets the open sea. 

approaching the floe edge



... the blue is blue, the white, white ...



... a perfect view from above ...

Rebecca 

Picnic near Apex



bumps in ice from tidal movement of water below

I am here in Iqaluit.

The flight in was amazing.

We flew over water that was a gorgeous blue, speckled with white, until we could see the floe edge, the place where the ice is solid, and people can go hunt or fish.

Rebecca and Maata with the rest of the seal

After that, we flew over rocky land where you could see glacial striations scratched into the surface.

We are staying in a 3 bedroom place up on the hill.

The view out over the town and bay is amazing.

Tonight, there was a picnic: Eloise and Rob bought a seal (yes, a whole seal) and Maata and her boys cooked a seal stew for us out on the tundra.

The colours are gorgeous. I was SO mad that I forgot to take my camera out with me, but Rob took a few photos that I will try to upload.

So… tonight I ate seal stew and seal broth.

The Inuit students said (and I had already heard) that seal will heat your blood.

Oddly enough, 3 hours later, as I am getting ready to go to bed, I really AM feeling hotter!

 Lori Idlout did tell me to be sure to drink lots of water tonight. I will!