Welcome to another installment of the ‘Alphabet Photography Project’ and the letter T. Today’s installment will be short and sweet . . . T is for ‘territory’. Years ago, during our first season in Canada’s Central Coast, we spent a few days in Laredo Inlet (Princess Royal Island) in hopes of seeing the elusive Spirit Bear. We still haven’t seen one, but I did find this First Nations’ pole transitioning back to nature during one of my trips to shore with Sally (the Dog). I don’t know anything about it, but it would have been carved by a member of the Kitasu Band (I think) as a way of marking their territory and either welcoming strangers or warning them to leave. It’s the only such pole I’ve seen and it’s difficult to describe the emotions a discovery like that evokes. Over the years we’ve seen dozens of signs of man’s early existence along the coast – from petroglyphs to middens – but this was quite special . . . and eerie.