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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  January 10, 20185:00 am| 15 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

Submit Your Photos

Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

You can, of course, send an email with pictures if the form gives you trouble, or if you are trying to submit something special, like a zipped archive or a movie. If your pictures are already hosted online, then please email the links with your descriptions.

For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

I tried to post a wonderful submission from Le Comte…. yet something about the post hurt FYWP’s precious feelings. Luckily, we have other wonderful submissions to offer!

Have a great day everyone, don’t miss the neat things to notice all around you, and do send in some wonders, be they from near or far.

Today, pictures from valued commenter Ferd ofthe Nort.

OK. So I tried to send this out in October, up there where the land is cold and the internet does not really work. This was a planned set of photos for you introducing me and where I live (lived! I hope). I also am showing you some additional photos that you might enjoy.

Ferd of the Nort

Taken on 2017-10-20

Taken down the road some. The road ends out on the tundra at about 30 km from town. It was taken on the crest of an Esker (Wikipedia is your resource). Many communities in northern Canada do not have road access to any other town.

Hi!
This is me with my Honda. My Honda (actually all ATVs are called Hondas) is a Yamaha Rhino. Driving it in October requires protection. Photo is looking west.

You can see the town in the distance. Well, not really.

Taken on 2017-10-20

This is the road back to town. The bride in the distance is a road going another direction. We have three roads, going northwest, west, and south. The dark sky is over the open water of Hudson’s Bay.

Why m I out in the middle of the Tundra? They want Run-Run.

Taken on 2017-10-20

These are my three dogs. They love the Tundra for the smells and running.

And now for something completely different…

Taken on 2017-09-04

Same area as the first photos, but earlier.

We get leaves that change colour. The tundra can show amazing colours. This photo looks west towards… the Barrenlands.

Tundra Rubies – Arctic Cranberries

Taken on 2017-09-04

This is what we harvest in September.

The Wonder of the Tundra

Taken on 2017-09-04

Looking west towards the Barrenlands. This is the colour of the fall tundra. In late summer (August to you), it is all dusty brown, grey or dusty green. Then the reds and oranges burst out.

I just must say – wow! My father spent some time working as a petroleum geologist on the North Slope and I’ve always wanted to see the tundra with my own eyes. Seeing “tundra” in Alpine climates is different, he assured me, and was an expert, having grown up in Switzerland and spent many years in the mountains of Bolivia.

 

Thank you so much Ferd ofthe Nort, do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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15Comments

  1. 1.

    Sab

    January 10, 2018 at 5:23 am

    These photos were amazing. Thanks so much. Yesterdays were from where my ancestors came from and from where I had visited. Today’s not so much. Outside of my experience but beautiful.

    Cats are tropical, but dogs are definitely Nordic. Cold outside is where they want to be (except bedtime.)

  2. 2.

    Sab

    January 10, 2018 at 5:29 am

    That man has a very cold-looking nose. I assume the nose was as cold as it looked in the photo. Yikes. Thanks for braving that cold for these pictures.

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    p.a.

    January 10, 2018 at 5:35 am

    Great stuff!

  4. 4.

    Sab

    January 10, 2018 at 5:38 am

    Ferd ofthe Nort: These were fascinating. Please send more. I am stuck in Ohio, and I would love to see more of the gorgeous country to our north.

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    Amir Khalid

    January 10, 2018 at 5:44 am

    My Honda (actually all ATVs are called Hondas) is a Yamaha Rhino.

    It must annoy Yamaha that their product is in a category nicknamed after a competitor. Imagine how GM would feel if all cars were called Fords.

  6. 6.

    Sab

    January 10, 2018 at 5:48 am

    @Amir Khalid: I love my Honda cars, but I understand and agree with your point. I have never had a Yamaha. I thought they only made (exceptional) musical instruments.

  7. 7.

    Sab

    January 10, 2018 at 5:53 am

    @Sab: OK, also exceptional motorcycles. Forgot about those, since I am not nuts enough to ride bikes.

  8. 8.

    Quinerly

    January 10, 2018 at 6:00 am

    Love the pictures today! Thanks posters and Alain. Have a great day!

  9. 9.

    rikyrah

    January 10, 2018 at 8:15 am

    I have traveled around the world in these posts. So lucky that the readership is in all these different places.??

  10. 10.

    Betty Cracker

    January 10, 2018 at 8:21 am

    The summer tundra has an austere beauty!

    @Amir Khalid: Where I’m from, all sodas are called “Cokes.” People will say, “Do you want a Coke?” And the reply is sometimes, “Sure — an orange one.”

    One time the University of Florida put up signs designating some type of Coke (maybe even actual Coke) as the “official pop of the Gators,” and there was outrage that they’d let a Midwesterner write that ad copy!

  11. 11.

    Bg

    January 10, 2018 at 10:10 am

    this is gorgeous stuff. Thank you so much!

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    Tenar Arha

    January 10, 2018 at 10:15 am

    Great pix Ferd ofthe Nort! Thank you.

  13. 13.

    Mary G

    January 10, 2018 at 10:38 am

    Thanks, Ferd. Love the happy dogs and the cranberries, and every other picture. If that was October, I shudder to think of what it looks like now. Hope you and the bride are bundled up in front of a big fire.

  14. 14.

    eclare

    January 10, 2018 at 1:59 pm

    Photos are gorgeous, thank you for letting me travel in my living room.

  15. 15.

    eclare

    January 10, 2018 at 2:00 pm

    @Betty Cracker: What kind of Coke do you want? Do you want a Sprite Coke?

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