Tag: north
North! To Prince George
I grew up in Prince George, BC. I’ve always described it as the place smack dab in the middle of BC, though it’s the capital of Northern BC. On a map, it’s pretty perfectly in the center. Driving, it’s about 10 hours north of Vancouver. Driving from Vancouver one first finds the Fraser Valley, then…
Spring in Prince George, BC, Canada
Those of us living in rainforests are fairly used to all year round green grass and tulips, but most of the rest of Canada and the northern hemisphere are just losing the last of their snow and preparing for the first blossoms to spring up. It’s spring after all! These photographs were taken in Prince…
University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC
Behind my parents house in Prince George is a hill. At the top of that hill is UNBC, the University of Northern British Columbia. When I was a younger resident of PG this university was built, and has since become one of the more respected universities when talking about forestry schooling. When I take the…
German Wind & Flour Mills
During my time I spent up in Schleswig-Holstein, in the Northern part of Germany, I was lucky enough to be there during the one day of the year when the local farmers who have a windmill or a flourmill open them up to visitors, kind of like a field day. I was also lucky enough…
An Early Fall Wandering
So, it’s early fall here in Vancouver, which means things are just starting to turn, but not much yet. Flowers are dying because it’s getting colder, and blue skies are becoming rare-er. So, Yesterday was a blue sky day, so I went a wandering: