It is late March in Hourglass Bay on Ellesmere Island. Temperatures are low to moderate but 24-hour light invests us all with energy and a tremendous urge to be outside after a winter under siege.
Spring everywhere is about growth and renewal.
Some of the growth apparent this spring was not in the script of the Otto Sverdrup Centennial Expedition, new life seeded in the winter and now, finally, breaking ground. Denial ruled for a couple of weeks. We sat on this reality and kept it to ourselves for a couple of weeks. Due August 4. So much for best-laid plans Hourglass Bay had apparently been more fertile than it seemed during the bleakness of last fall's storms.