We visited Shames Mountain this November long weekend. It is about an hour drive away.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
ROCK STAR DIVA
ROCK STAR GROUPIE
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Fall in the Nass Valley
Last weekend, we took a bit of a road-trip out of rupert to explore. After spending a rainy evening in the cedar motel in terrace, we awoke to semi-clear skies and snowy peaks and took a drive up to the Nass Valley, home of the Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds, home of BC's most recent volcanic activity - just over 200 years ago. Amazing scenery up there, with fall colours, lichens growing everywhere on the lava rock (learned a bit about plant succession), far-away, massive peaks and surreal weather. Nisga'a legend has it some children were making fun of spawning salmon by sticking burning twigs in their backs as they were swimming up stream and laughing as the smoke poured from their backs. The eruption was punishment for forsaking the gift of the salmon and resulted in many thousands of villagers losing their lives in the lava flow.
Here's some shots of the scenery, and the trusty old toyota van that took us there.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
THE MUSHROOM GAME TIME
Spore Print/ Art School Project
Caterpillar or Funky Eyebrows
BUCK OFF!
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Sunrise on the Babine
A couple weekends ago, my class went on a field trip east from Prince Rupert to explore some of the salmon enhancement and management facilities in the Skeena River system. In Kitwanga, the Gitanyow use a counting fence to track movement of salmon upriver, in Moricetown, a tag and re-capture program is in place, and at Fulton River, there is a massive spawning channel for sockeye. Never have I seen so many sockeye in one place - except maybe at the Adams River when I was a kid. We were treated to an amazing sunrise over Babine Lake - that's one of my classmates trying his luck with his fly rod.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Springy Thing
Friday, September 21, 2007
New Port
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
My Magic Pink Rubber Boots
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
At the Cannery
Pacific Mariner's Memorial Park
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Don't be Crabby!
Oona River
Oona River
Oona River
Views from our House
Our house is located on Ambrose Avenue which overlooks the ocean and forest. Yesterday i found a footpath to get down to the water instead of walking though town. In this photo you can see it is sunny out and that my aloe vera plant and my spike (guzmania plant) are doing very well in our living room.
Neighbours
Corner Store
Neighbours
BEAR AWARE!
Even if it isn't real?! We saw this bear at the great roadside stop in Hope. We had to stretch out a big blanket under this bear and have a 30 minute nap before driving some more. We were just so tired from packing up our places and from the past two weeks of such whirlwind lists of stuff to do, people to see, jobs to quit and finish up, packing to be done and goodbyes to be made!
Spawn On!
Caravan of Love
The move up to the north was quite an adventure. Vince drove a 50 foot caravan as you can see. We did the drive in three days and camped along the way. Luckily we had Trader Joe's Lime & Chilli peanuts! In fact I am also thankful that I have a new felted red purse, body lotions and shower gels, plants, sage aromatherapy, earrings, books, tea, pottery, writing paper and stamps, fish change purse, wine, african textiles, homemade soaps - WHEW!! Just some of the many going away/birthday gifts I received from the wonderful friends I am very thankful to have. I was sad as we left Vancouver but Vince cheered me up when he knocked over 50 bottles of windshield wiper fluid at the gas station on Burrard street as he tried to navigate the beastmobile. we laughed and peeled outta there as quick as a 50 foot caravan can.
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