This is an image from early afternoon, looking out on the Mackenzie River delta in Aklavik, NT Canada. What do you see when you look at this image from out the window? What do you see out your own window?

When I look at this image I see a connection between land and sky and I get a sense of quiet and peace. When I look out my window here at the University, I see contrasts and a sharp distinction between land and sky. It’s interesting the colors of our world and what we see and percieve out our own windows.

The Ayles ice Shelf, one of a number of key ice masses in the Arctic, has been found to have broken free from land; as noted in the wikipedia:

“The Ayles ice Shelf was one of six major ice shelves in Canada, all located on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. The ice shelf broke off from the coast on August 13, 2005, forming a giant ice island 37 metres (120ft) thick and measuring around 9 miles by 3 miles in size (approximately 66 square kilometers or 25.5 square miles in area). The oldest ice in the ice shelf was believed to be over 3,000 years old. The ice shelf was located at (83°1.5′N 77°33.5′W), approximately 800 kilometers (497 miles) south of the North Pole.”