Marty’s photo of the day #3440: Deb and I keep talking about repeating our trip to the top of Canada. We couldn’t do it during the last several years, because our dogs were too old to come along. Now that we have our young Lab-mix, Nellie, the temptation to go again is even greater. She […]
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Even Canada . . .
Marty’s photo of the day #3379: Deb and I had talked about going to Bonaire this fall, but Donald Trump decided that 200,000 COVID-19 deaths were a small price to pay if he could fool enough people into thinking things were fine and reelecting him. As an alternative, my wife and I also thought of […]
Fall in the Yukon Territory
Marty’s photo of the day #3359: Fall is almost here. While many of you have mixed feelings about that, here’s a preview of fall from the Yukon Territory of Canada.
Tundra plant life
Marty’s photo of the day #3258: This is a close-up of tundra plant life, somewhere in the Yukon Territory of Canada.
Yukon colors
Marty’s photo of the day #3236: I shot this photo somewhere in the far-northern Yukon Territory. I love all the deep colors!
Dall sheep
Marty’s photo of the day #3072: Dall sheep (also known as thinhorn sheep), photographed along a river in the Yukon Territory.
Fall in the Yukon Territory
Marty’s photo of the day #2954: I haven’t posted a scenic shot for a while, so here’s fall in the Yukon Territory.
Fall in the Yukon
Fall in the Yukon Territory
Building on permafrost
Marty’s photo of the day #2606: Here’s your visual lesson of what happens when you build on permafrost. When the permafrost melts, your building sinks. (Photographed in Dawson City, Yukon Territory)
Village in the clouds
Marty’s photo of the day #2479: I took this photo in the Yukon Territory of Canada. If you look closely, you can see the village of Faro among the clouds.
Will they be migrating to oil wells?
Marty’s photo of the day #2401: I took this photo in the Yukon Territory. This is a small section of the Porcupine caribou migration. Traveling more than 700 miles between Canada and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in Alaska, it is the longest terrestrial migration on Earth. Of course now that the sinister Republican tax […]
Dempster Highway
Marty’s photo of the day #2336: This is the Dempster Highway, in the Yukon Territory. One of my favorite adventures, working on my book “”Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents,” was traveling to the top of Canada on this scenic dirt road.
The top of Canada
Marty’s photo of the day #2263: When Deb and I look back on all our adventures for my book “Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents,” the one we most frequently talk about repeating is our drive to the top of Canada. Someday, we will go there again! This photo shows the tundra in […]