Not sure how this will work- I don't want to make a separate post for each of these short #videos, so I'll try one post with 5 links!
These are short #vlogs with me jabbering about #weather while out in the bush- you can watch them in order to be horrified by the dropping #temperatures day by day or skip ahead to see me talk into the camera- rare- or skip to the last one for near #sunrise glow! Okay, description is so long, links to follow! #Alberta#January#ColdSnap#BorealForest#selfie
In the woods on the farm today where I was harvesting deadwood for firewood. Light #snow all day and around -22 at that time. Luckily inside this wood, no wind (outside, another story, slight, but still deadly). #SnowMother has been getting us caught up, bit by bit-- still less than usual, overall. #Alberta#BorealForest#CountryLiving#January#WinterPictures
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14 Since reading more about her by chance, recently, I've been thinking a bit about the #Baltic#Latvian#goddess#Ragana She seems more to stem from the primordial nature worship of Old Europe (the ancient pre-Indo-Europeans). (more to come on this some day soon). She's associated with birch trees in particular, so now I think of her whenever I see them! Next year's catkins on this one, I think? #pagan#BorealForest#CommuneWithNature#WinterPictures#Alberta
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17 that was Sunday, so, a work day and so the pic is from the moving car on the #commute#BorealForest#Alberta#WinterPictures#landscape#CountryLiving I was talking a little to @richardgrant a while back when an earlier photo in this thread showed some Tamarack / Larix laricina ( I had a question mark on the id then, just because with snow/frost/ice covering the trees, it was hard to see what trees were there). This view shows Tamaracks again--continued:
#FotoMontag#PhotoMonday Tomorrow is the #CrossQuarterDay between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice- this is the real reason for all the end of October/ beginning of November cultural/religious celebrations that have developed in various places. Traditionally for northern Europe this is the beginning of #Winter. It's been pretty accurate here in recent years- late Oct or early Nov has seen lasting #snow for us. this year it started Oct 23 #pagan#animist#Alberta#SeasonalRhythms#BorealForest
From The Conversation: If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband wrapped around its ears, covering large portions of Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia. Now, the forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward. Here’s more: https://flip.it/3Uy8e9 #Science#ClimateChange#BorealForest#Arctic
Around 25-30cm of #snow yesterday- probably a bit settled by now with some warmth coming from the soil melting it a bit underneath (making for heavier shovelling- I did an hour or so last night, my friend did as much this morning + cleaning the car- and there is probably another couple hours worth to do). It was #sunny this morning with forecast of clouds, so I went out for a few shots with #blue sky. #winter #Alberta#GetOutside#ShareYourWeather#BorealForest#garden#GrandmotherSpruce