my good friend is getting ready to cycle the #goldenCircle ride from Haines, Ak -> #Whitehorse#yukon -> Skagway, Ak - he’ll be in Whitehorse Thursday May 30th and has a half day to see sights by bike and is looking for recommendations or friends if anyone has ideas @McYukon@cjgyt ?
"Where the banks end, the land plateaus, rolling out under the sky with a cover of black spruce, their trunks narrow from the effort of growing in permafrost. The peak of Arctic summer in the north Yukon is just beginning to tilt toward autumn yellow and red." —Bathsheba Demuth for Emergence Magazine
Today is also International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day and I for one, appreciate the corvids. They are extraordinarily intelligent birds! Here is my murder of crows, part of my #termsOfVenery series of collective nouns for animals series of prints.
The raven is the official bird of the Yukon, in my print with the official flora, fireweed.
Lastly my crow print, inspired by a photo my husband took.
"We're Still Here" from the indigenous Diyet & the Love Soldiers, a band from northern Yukon we're bringing on tour through Lingít Aani/Southeast Alaska via Petersburg Arts Council! We just signed a contract to get Diyet to Petersburg Wrangell, Skagway, Haines & Sitka this coming November : )
#Movie: Dawson City -- Frozen Time (2016). #Documentary about a gold boom town in the #Yukon and the unique cache of silent #film on nitrate stock found in a permafrozen landfill there in 1978. No narration and almost no interviews, mainly just sound design and a really annoying dirge-like funereal score. Grade: OK.