So you thought this blog had dried up and all but disappeared from the interwebs. Well, you're wrong....just happens that i can't be bothered to sit still and plunk myself in front of the ole desktop to post something to the interwebs. Sure, i post some images to instagram or facebook or flickr...but they're usually a one or two shot deal and they are quick, even without owning a cell phone. I realized the other day, that this blog platform has provided a pretty fun timeline over the years, even if it's just for myself; although i know a few of you get a kick out of it as well and can't be bothered with that other media crap.  So with that in mind and the fact that it's now winter, i'm going to make an attempt to post here, if only a little more often than in the past half a year. So stop by from time to time and see what's cookin in our world of fun and adventure.  As usual...these are all photo's i've snapped.

Lake Superior, November 2014. Overhead and glassy point break.

Brrrap

My cuz man getting all gnarly at deer camp on my new 9zero7 190mm fatbike.

A family's got to eat. I thank the woods, everyday.

Brook trout

The families shoes at rest well we played in the water at Redrock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park this summer.

Rogers Pass

Score

Either grown, foraged or caught.

Spent 4 months off work with my boys, getting up to all kinds of trouble, including rolling round town on this rig.  Surly Ogre, with Yepp Mini upfront and Trek Mnt Train in the back.

Because we always like a fun little project; we decided to rip out our front yard this spring and re landscape the whole thing into a raingarden.  Here we are just putting in some plants.  Being a cool wet summer, the yard flourished and should come back twice as nice next year.  Lot's of native species, berries, grasses, ferns, etc...

So yeah.  Now you're all up to speed...hahaha.

peace all
e

                                          Espresso break at Old Woman Bay Lake Superior

                                                        
                                                       Some canned organic apricots

                                                          Uh...token August sunset photo.

                                             Summers not over yet peeps.  Keeper real.


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e


photo's by eric berglund

Plenty of big changes afoot here at the fresh aspect headquarters.  Actually we moved the headquarters a whole 5 or so blocks ESE towards the lake.  So yeah, between the usual grind, family, running, bikes, moving and so on...time on the interwebs has been limited.   

Young hands loving the VW. 

 In fact he's requested to bring the van to bed several times now....the first time referring to it as his "D Double Van"

Hmmm... a perfect summer IPA....another creation a-la Northern Brewer.  'Chinook IPA', brewed outdoors on my Colman two burner stove in March. Not crazy hopped and super tasty.

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e

photo's by eric berglund

Felt so good to not touch a digital apparati for a week. Instead, it was family and it was sun and water and relaxation. B-logs and email can wait, when there's the outdoors to play in.

Here's my bros-inlaw showing his prowess when it comes to windsurfing. Not exactly rippin'winds, but having a good time all the same.

At rest

Good clouds.




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e


photo's by eric berglund

Foragetastic. Another weekend of blueberry picking yielded a nice haul. Not the number of berries we were seeing last year, but at the same time, nothing to complain about either. A scoop of blueberries on our cereal for everyday of the year.
We like berries!

Some strawberries we picked at the u-pick back in July. Not foraging perse, but foody goodness for the winter non the less.

Stemmed and ready for the freezer.


A lot with the food and plants these days, but that's just how we roll.

be well
peace
e


photos by eric berglund

some color

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e


photo by eric b.

I'll be honest. Throwin down b-log posts during the summer months just aint easy. On the go and enjoying the heat while we've got it. It's August...and us at the fresh aspect headquarters are foraging our little hearts out. And it's dam good.
Some nice redpines

Little hands filling little bellies with blue gold.

Some delectable fungi.



keep on keepin on.

peace e

photo's by eric berglund

Through the woods.


Oh brother, hot like summer this weekend. Perfect excuse for hangin out at the beach and swimming in lake superior with N and O. Windy as all get out, but all that cold air coming off the lake pretty much shuts down any good wave production. Strawberry picking followed by strawberry gorging. Leafy salads and a cold beer. Summer.

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e

photo by eric berglund

Happy Solstice friends. Summer is upon us. The days are long, the lake is flat, the garden is fresh, there's fish to be sought, canoes to be paddled, bikes to be ridden, adventures to be had and playing to be done.



Last year on this day, N and i were two days out from welcoming Oskar to the team and subjecting ourselves to the time honoured practice of parenthood. And now, after my first fantastic fathers day and countless days of reflection on being a dad over the last 363 days...i couldn't imagine it any other way.



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e

photos by: eric berglund

I've said it once, and i'll say it again...it's a bad ass blueberry bonanza out there. Got our forage on as a family again this evening and mustered up several liters of blueberries. Oskar managed to keep it together for the better part of the evening too. Tough life for a kiddo, when his parents are draggin him out in the bush and makin him breath the fresh air. Who says a 2 month old can't handle the black flies. That's life and it's good.
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e

photo by: eric berglund

Home from work, jam back a litre of water and a snack, put on the overalls despite the fact that it's the warmest day of the summer thus far. Nance and i load Oskar, and Lutsen and book it for the "secret" spot. It's that time of year when blue gold abounds, the thought of blueberries on your cereal every day for a year keeps you stoked on pickin, even when you might rather be swimmin. Bit of a recon mission this eve, just to get an idea of where things are at. Things are in fact lookin good and the potential is there to cash in on the motherload in the next week, provided Oskar continues to cooperate with dozing in the snugly and Lutsen avoids more skunk encounters...dam he still stinks.

headed in to the aforementioned secret spot

the booty

watch that you don't get these in the booty



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e

photo's by: eric berglund

hey friends...been a few days out in the wilds and somehow we are heading into the middle of august. just a couple shots for a monday. mostly deep shades of summer green.

not an unusual site these days.

green darner (Anax junius) dragonfly right after emerging on one of a few warm and sunny days we've had here in northwestern Ontario this summer.



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photo's by Eric Berglund

some good stuff.

Grab the wheels, time for a Monday night ride in the woods. The skies were looking black and menacing, but somehow we didn't seem to care. We weren’t so much disregarding the fact that it was about to pour; as we were not wanting to let a little rain stand in our way of some fun. Needless to say it was a wet and soggy mess. Fun, but a mess.

Rule of thumb: when in doubt, GO.

Didn't have the waterproof Olympus along, otherwise i would have had some good shots, pre, during and post down-pour on our ride. Definitely some nice light coming through the soaked and humid forest after things moved on.

mr. steed


And, always a nice monday surprise to find the latest SBC Surf on your doorstep at the end of the day. Plenty of great stories and photos, worthy of some quality mind surfing time. Especially if your in the summer doldrums like here and haven't had any surf in a long while.




Surf or no surf, a gorgeous summer evening is something you
can't argue with.



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e


photographs by: eric berglund

flaming ball of gas
watching it set



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e

by: eric berglund

Had a wicked countryside road ride over lunch hour today and then hit the dirt and the woods this evening with j. and Lutsen for some knobby action. Got to be takin advantage of these nice days when the opportunity arises folks.

single trackin

geeked out scenic bike shot while Lutsen cooled down in the river

and yeah...a bunch of fine steel for workin some greenwood.
A couple Hans Karlsson and Ashley Iles gouges, a Mora knife and
Gransfors adz.


Oskar tossin a fist in the air and looking cute and cool all at the same time.


peace
e
photo's by eric berglund

Plenty goin on, for the exception of surf that is...which is a pretty normal thing for this time of year. Windy as stink out there though, but mostly from the west and the north...no good. Meanwhile, been hit with some projectile baby excrement, some Tour de France-itis and scoopin the mantra of "run to surf" from Nova Scotia's Ku Yah! who continues to provide some of the interwebs more entertaining and progressive literary musings...at least a few folks think so.

Couple captures here from the other evening.



Oh yeah, and stay tuned, cause in the very near future there'll be a new and exciting surf publication hittin the wires. We'll keep you posted.

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photos by: eric berglund