I climbed this little mountain in order to take full advantage of the sunsets while we still have them down here. I was not disappointed.
Author: joelwitwer
Snowy & blustery with a dollop of sun.
Death has no country.
Love has no name.
– Mary Oliver
As though in a dream
we drive
toward the white forest
all day,
all night.
– Mary Oliver
For those of you who don’t know, I’ve recently taken up a contract at a US research base in Antarctica. I’ll be here through February working in the dining hall and taking photos which I’ll be posting here.
I’m calling this one “first look” and was taken from the C17 that flew us from NZ to Antarctica,
Pioneers! O Pioneers
Come my tan faced children
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready;
Have you your pistols? Have you your sharp edged axes? Pioneers! O Pioneers!
For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest depend. Pioneers! O Pioneers
– Walt Whitman
This city is just chock blocked full of bridges!
An exchange between my sister and her boyfriend.
Sister: I don’t think I’d want to live in a 17th century Canadian fort. I’d probably be stuck wearing a skirt and baking bread.
Boyfriend : But you like wearing skirts and baking bread.
Sister : Oh yeah …
Do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
– Dylan Thomas
I’m in Quebec City, Canada for the next few days and with the stress of finishing my master’s thesis past it’s peak, I’ll be behind the camera again and posting a few photos from my adventures up here!
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