Today I took out my new bicycle for the first time, to do errands, attend events, have coffee, and look at some sights. The Electra is wonderful: it rides well, but even more, the yellow background with orange butterflies and green tire rims delight not only me but others - as one young woman said: "That's the coolest bike I've ever seen!"
It's great to be able to bike about, especially in Yellowknife's beautiful weather as it was today: temperature in the mid-teens, a delightful breeze, one half of the sky with white clouds, the other the brightest blue.
First stop: the Book Cellar to buy a Saturday Globe and Mail and the most recent Yellowknifer. Next stops (no pictures): over to the Prince of Wales Museum to catch some more of the 8th Annual NACC Festival of Stories: first up were Michael Kusugak with some Inuit stories he had learned from his grandmother, and Scott McQueen about his father's adventures as a champion dogsled racer in the 1960s. Next a latte at Javaroma, to fuel the rest of the ride.
Both of these pictures are of the Old Town Community Garden, the first established of currently three community gardens in Yellowknife. Things are starting to grow! it's a much shorter and more intense season than it might be in other parts of Canada, although I do remember that in PEI, when I worked at a greenhouse there in the summer of 1976, serious gardening really only started in early June.
Final stop: Yellowknife Bay, with houseboats in the distance. Note the blue sky in the pictures above, and the clouds in the picture below. Pictures were taken only minutes apart, of different halves of the sky.
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