Weekly Photo Challenge ~ From Above

From above; high up in a tall pine tree, higher than it appears in this zoom lense photo, she checks for the possibility of awakened bears in Lappland, in the faded light, with still a lot of work to do

A Writer’s Lair ~ Lappland

When I used to teach Creative Writing I sometimes would have the students troop of out of classroom or lecture hall into a nearby forest or field, just after the first snow had fallen, or at least a good frost,

The Saami People of Lappland: Shamans, Nature and Auroras

The Saami people have lived in northern Scandinavia and the Kola peninsula, in Russia, since the beginning of time, in an area called Sápmi or Lappland. Saamis are traditionally reindeer herders much like Mongolians, or Yakuts from Siberia are, though they share