Reflections

Well another twelve days to home. It’s been a long year for some reason and I’m just going through some of the highlights in my mind.

In 2006 I experienced –40 degrees at dawn on the shores of Little Grand Rapids, struggled through 60 mile an hour blizzard winds walking a half mile to the store in Sanikiluaq, watched the caribou migrating through Salluit, fought the black flies of Inukjuak and spent afternoons on bear watch in Chesterfield Inlet. There was also a great double sunset in Thompson, once from the ground followed by the sun rising in the west as the aircraft climbed to its cruising altitude and then setting a second time a few minutes later. A seldom seen experience except for airline pilots.

Somehow though none of the sights and scenes match being on the deck of the house in Wiky, watching the sunrise, listening to the birds coming alive, enjoying the first coffee of the morning and waiting for the rest of the house to surface from their nights dreams.

Wonder what tomorrow will bring…