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Desert Rain
Wildflowers in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California in 2005.
The last two years in the desert Southwest have been bone dry. Fortunately that all changed late last week.Read More
2008 Alaska Calendar – gift idea
If you are looking for some last minute gift ideas, you might consider our 2008 Alaska Calendar. We don’t actually have any left, but I learned last week that ANHA still has a few left. Here is a link to the calendar at their on the on-line store; ANHA. They sell for $10.
Seward Boat Harbor
Seward Boat Harbor, Alaska.
Yesterday’s (Thursday) sunrise wasn’t limited to Seward, it was so spectacular in Anchorage that they did a story on it on the nightly news!
Today I was ready and went down to the Small Boat Harbor. The sunrise was very short lived and not nearly as spectacular, but it was still pretty nice.
Seward Sunrise
Wouldn’t you know it, a few hours after saying I wouldn’t be doing much shooting, I’m out photographing this sunrise. How could I not! With a good humored, sarcastic laugh, Janine mentioned how we really needed more photos of a sunrise over Resurrection Bay – I probably have 100’s. That’s ok, I will probably take 100’s more in the years to come, even if they are just for me. In reality, because of the surrounding mountains, sunrises and sunsets are relatively infrequent around Seward.
We traveled to some beautiful areas this fall including the Tetons, but in my opinion nothing compares to where we live. The Tetons are a household name in the U.S., but I think this range of mountains is equally dramatic, rising out of the ocean with near the vertical relief as the Tetons, and yet I don’t even know the names of these peaks – they may not have names. By Alaska standards, these are small. I feel very blessed and fortunate to live near such beauty!
Slot Canyon
This is a narrow side canyon to the main canyon in a place I posted about a few weeks ago. The three prior posts from the last week were from this canyon as well.
We are now caught up on all our print orders, it took a bit longer then expected, we had about 60 prints to prepare and send. Orders coming in now will be sent within a couple of days via Priority Mail.
The blog activity might slow a little during the next couple of months. I know, I have said that a few times before, but continued to post nearly daily. But this time not only do we need to get caught up on our recent travels, but we have tackled a little remodel project at home, and that is keeping us pretty busy. I probably won’t do much shooting, but I do have plenty to share from recent travels. In February we hit the road again for a couple of months, and then it will be spring, summer and fall in Alaska, so I should have plenty to share then!
Canyoneering
Janine bravely climbing a rickety make shift ladder.
While in Zion we totally got hooked on canyoneering. We hope to do much more next fall. We intended to take some training classes on the subject during this trip, but decided we would wait until next fall for the training since I would likely forget all I learned in the year in between.
Zion Area Waterfall
Well if you follow this blog, you know how excited I was to be back in Alaska for some great winter weather. Well unfortunately, highs in the upper 40’s and 6 inches of rain put an end to winter this week – we received 2 inches of rain on Thanksgiving day alone.
So we decided to take advantage of the bad weather and the holiday weekend to take our office down and paint it. Then we decided we didn’t like the new color, and painted it again. 🙂 It helps having a mom who is an artist to bail us out with color selection! So now we are back in business.
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