Hey everybody. So I think we have all met people who you would describe as being

attracted to a certain kind of place, a of landscape.

So I feel like everyone's met a beach person,

someone who is just naturally wants to spend all their time

at the beach.

Everything about the beach is just right for them. I am truthfully not a beach person.

I like beaches, they're just, I don't know, they're too sandy, whatever. You know, there are desert people, people who maybe they wait until they're in retirement and

then they go out to the desert and they say oh my god this is the landscape of my subconscious.

Georgia O'Keefe was a desert person.

Well, it took me kind of a long time

to figure out what my landscape was because I didn't know it had a

name but for years and years I have been just inextricably drawn to these certain places. I would see these

images of northern Scotland or some island way up in the north of Japan or bits of Canada and I would just think my God I have to go to that snowy forested lake it just feels so right. It turns out that all of these

places that I was so drawn to are part of one biome called a boreal forest.

It is like this giant donut, this giant band of forest that runs in a circle surrounding the Arctic.

And they're just these magical places, these enormous forests of

coniferous trees that are often filled with feet of snow for months at a time.

They are cold glacial lakes sitting like jewels in the mountains.

They are these fantastical, amazing locations.

And every time I see a picture of one,

it just calls to me deep in my bones.

It says, come home. I don't know why, I don't have an explanation.

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