Whitehorse pics...just a couple

The Assistant Stage Manager's house

the icy lake I walk by on the way to work

me walking in the snow

beautiful rock formations

eagles are as big as three year old children...that could kill you

haines junction

My friend Charlie's dog Shadow

and her other pup...can't recall this guys name...

...and more pictures

ice-y

cloudy day out the cabin window

this is my face about 10 seconds after seeing a glacier for the first time

beautiful yarn for knitting

this is a thingy out front of this guys fish shop

More Pics...

more view from cabin

mountain

me buying extratufs

beautiful happy pup

me playing with beautiful pup

Pictures At Last: My Trip to Haines Alaska

Snowy Kluane National Park





















Roaring Fireplace













View from Cabin Window













No Alaskian Adventure is complete without Neil Young...
Or DB Cooper signs...

Hey All,

Sorry for the broken blogging..things are getting busy busy round here. Not much to report. The cast went out and we all had many beers last night, I ended up trying to play experimental sound music on some dudes guitar...everyone looked at me like I was a wierdo, tried to get people playing pots and pans and such. I guess no one's heard of John Cage in this town.

So I have a camera now and I will post pictures. Hope these pictures intice...Miss all of you soooooooo much. Can't wait to see you all,

Tanya

Pictures Coming soon...Week Off April 8 - 15th

I am downloading some pictures that will be coming soon, then I'll tell you about my amazing week off in Haines Alaska - think eagles, think big inviting fires, big dogs and great beer...

Workshop done, Day 10 - 14

The last legs of the workshop were pretty grueling, not much changed, just building stamina. Really getting to know everyone here, a lot of really wonderful people to work with and work for. We had a staged reading of Carnival this week, with one audience member who was pretty mesmorized. We read the scrip aloud and then did some physical work. I like the audience of one, I felt pretty grounded.

Today and tommorow are the last days I am in my apartment alone, alas...but Veronica our set designer and found object artistian is coming from Toronto so I am looking forward to some company. The solitude was welcome but also a bit lonely. Although if one ever wanted to find a place to do some soul searching, this would definetly be the place.

It's Easter weekend and the streets are barren, moreso than usual. However, Spring has arrived after a mild snowfall and so I think over the next few weeks I'll see more folks out for a rare chance at B12 rays.

Our director had a petite mal seizure this morning so rehearsal was cancelled. He has epilepsy, but I just saw him and he's doing ok. We're all going to have dinner together later...soon my camera is coming and I'll try and put more pictures up on this site.

Day 10...Whoa

A long couple of days. Excited by the rehearsal process, but very very tired. It was snowy and cold this morning. I moved into my new apartment, and I have the place to myself for the next week which is lovely to have my own space. Must stop working now...

Day 8...The All Natural Led Zepplin Laser Light Show

Last night was our night off - went to cast member Brian's cabin out of town for a bon fire and some amazing food. Ate steak, bison burgers, salad, baba ganoush, chips. Then the fire and smores. It was a Whitehorse feast.

Sat around chatting for hours and hours, got a tour of Brian and his wife Emily's esquisite cabin. It was built by an artistian before they bought it - Emily, a potter, has her own studio outside and they're going to build a work studio for Brian as well. An atrium and a garden is also on there 2 1/2 acre plot of land. It made me want to cry with envy.

Emily is 3 months pregnant so we didn't get to into the drinking which was great because I was drinking cranberry juice and soda water. I found out the hard way not to drink a glass of wine from the local pubs - I think it comes out a box that's been fermenting in some back room somewhere.

As we sat under last nights full moon, I saw the most amazing fucking thing I have ever seen: The Northern Lights, but not just the Northern Lights. It started off small at first, strange looking cloud formations that we identified as the Lights, then the formations turned into columns and then waves of white light. The waves kept lapping up against the shore of the moon, as all the formations looked as if they were coming straight out of the moon's glowing face. Then the waves became the entire ocean on an incredibly windly day, eddies and tributaries in pink and green and purple and blue, the entire sky full of light and colour. At one point the sky turned a brilliant pink and then glowed with white, the stars barely audible behind the scream of colour and movement. I wept - it was so awe inspiring. None of my words can do any justice to what I saw. I can understand why the Lights were worshipped as something to behold and also something to fear. It looks like both armegeddon and some goddess raining down well-wishes. Beautiful, in the real sense of beautiful. Not a hallmark card or a box of chocolates beautiful. But life-affirming, alarming and full of silent sound. Even the old timers hadn't seen anything like that for a long long while.

I went to bed dreaming of the sea and the sky making love.