Above are some close up shots of the dominant flora around town at the moment. Right and left are the common willows around here but the center two shots are of a new species, I call it the goose willow.

During our walk yesterday we must have witnessed a couple dozen ski doos, some with komatiks, heading up Nain Bay way to ice fish, plus north and south to cabins. The center photo I have named "canoeski".

The noise some of the newer machines make is something to hear, sound like jet planes, especially in the relative quite of a Sunday.

With the provincial election slated for October social media has finely become part of the election strategy for northern Labrador.

Randy Edmunds of Makkovik is the Liberal candidate and is using Facebook to garner concerns and questions.

The incumbent member, Conservative Patty Pottle. who has not announced her intentions yet, is ramping up her friends list on Facebook as well but not much political stuff as yet.

Like others before her Patty prefers to either phone or the personal conversation. I have always thought there was a so called 'method to that madness'. Don't leave a paper trail.

Evening time: Now the white stuff is accumulating again.