Spring Birding in Anchorage, Alaska

In late May, Vilis and I spent six days based in Anchorage, on Alaska’s southwest coast. As our jet approached the city, gaps in cloud revealed range after range of snow-capped peaks and snow-st...

King’s Point, Twillingate, and on to St. John’s, Newfoundland

This morning, the early March sky is nearly as white as the snow blanketing our yard. The air is still, damp, cool. Thin,  nearly invisible rain falls in streaks, leaving droplets of moisture suspend...

Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula: St. Pauls to L’Anse aux Meadows

Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula points northeast toward Greenland like the index finger of an otherwise clenched fist. Vilis and I spent three days exploring it at the end of last June, drivin...

Newfoundland’s Southwest Corner: Channel-Port-aux Basques to Trout River

Last Friday, I met with Donna Morrissey, Canadian author of a quartet of novels set in Newfoundland, where she grew up and lived for many years, although she now resides in Halifax. We discussed a pie...