Lewis Rifkind🇺🇦🇨🇦
@biblioholic
Quite possibly the hardest working retiree in the Yukon. He does more over morning coffee than you will do all day. True story. Or not.
The resemblance is uncanny! #LongLake #Whitehorse #Yukon #LicenceToThrill
“We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze.” - Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
“Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost…” Run, don’t walk, run and go see the Odyssey at the Yukon cinema. It’s not perfect, but then neither are the Gods nor men #Whitehorse #Yukon
“But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?” - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
Ooh, looks like the City of Whitehorse, Yukon is a’fixing up the pedestrian and bicycle access between the Fourth Ave roundabout and the Millennium Trail #Whitehorse #Yukon #activetransportation
“If, somewhere, any possible world can exist, then somewhere there is any letter that could possibly be written. Somewhere, all those checks really were in the mail.” - Terry Pratchett, Going Postal #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
Just when I thought all SUV drivers were machismo testosterone-driven out-of-touch with popular culture louts something like this comes along #Whitehorse #Yukon
“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” - Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire #Whitehorse #Yukon
Big tree down on the Millennium Trail by Robert Service Campground. @wildswimmeryukon.bsky.social was most perturbed. Reported to the City of Whitehorse, Yukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
“Behind the wheel of their private mobile spaces, drivers are far less likely to mix and mingle than pedestrians.” - Yves Engler, Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
Butterfly hunting! - Northern Blue - Moorland Clouded Yellow #Whitehorse #Yukon …at the Whitehorse Nordic Centre
Seven dollars! For Weetabix! It’s an outrage! #Whitehorse #Yukon
Peach non-dairy ice cream at Half Baked Cafe & Bakery on Hawkins Street! It’s really good #Whitehorse #Yukon
As part of the Selkirk Street active transportation path the City of Whitehorse has paved this sweet but short connector between Nisutlin Drive and the Millennium Trail #activetransportation #Whitehorse #Yukon
Love me a good trolley ride. More info at macbridemuseum.com/visit/macbri... #Whitehorse #Yukon
“You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledgehammer on the construction site.” — Frank Lloyd Wright #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
Well, my morning was certainly interesting. Paths of desire, a Red-Spotted Admiral, the paving of the Selkirk Street bike path, but the pièce de résistance was a sighting of the RCMP M Division armoured car! #Whitehorse #Yukon
“I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.” - Al Gore #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
“Cars are everywhere, yet we don’t tend to see them. As big as they are, cars have become essentially invisible to us because they are such a deeply ingrained feature of modern life. So, start looking harder.” - Life After Cars #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
“A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.” - Renzo Piano #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
Huzzah! The #MayoRoadbananapeelflinger is still with us! #Whitehorse #Yukon
The prophecy has been fulfilled! The White Lupin has returned among us for another year! #Whitehorse #Yukon #lupines
Tough and rough customer at Baked Cafe & Bakery this morning #Whitehorse #Yukon
Snow on Grey Mountain…but Fourth Ave has been paved! #Whitehorse #Yukon #July2nd
“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.” - George Orwell, 1984 #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
“I Did a Thing” - Jeremy Clarkson, Clarkson’s Farm #radish #Whitehorse #Yukon
“It will not go out of my mind that if we pass this post and lantern either we shall find strange adventures or else some great changes of our fortunes.” - C.S. Lewis; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe #shoppingcartsoftheYukon #Whitehorse #Yukon
I love the look of Lewis Flax along the littoral #Whitehorse #Yukon