Abba's Art

Tag: Photography

  • Elvis, Romeo and Me

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    The thermometer registered at 28 this morning as I scraped ice off the car’s windshield and gathered an armload of wood to stoke the wood-stove.   Outside the wilderness has replaced its forest greens with golden-orange hues as summer exits and fall arrives. Once again its time to bid adieu to the Last Frontier and…

  • Anti-aging AI Inhibitors

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    Fred D
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    This past weekend my wife, son and I visited longtime friends who live and run a 5* resort  (denalilakeviewinn.com) on Otto Lake at Denali National Park’s spectacular doorstep. Unfortunately overcast, drizzly conditions excluded us from Denali’s (some call it Mt. McKinnley) 30 % Club … only 30% of Park visitors actually get to see a…

  • Beauty for Ashes

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    Fred D
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    In 2019 the Swan Lake fire devastated over 170,000 acres of Kenai Peninsula pristine forest. This past weekend my wife and I drove through that area on our way to visit friends … Nature’s restorative power amazed us! What was a barren landscape of charred, skeletal trees and smoldering ashes just seven years ago, now…

  • Labor Day Guests

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    Fred D
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    An overcast, drizzly Labor Day was brightened by a visit from some feral friends …a single mom and her youngun’. Fortunately, we didn’t have to prepare a large meal … strict vegetarians, they insisted on trimming the shrubbery 😊 “All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The…

  • Labor Day Levity

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    Fred D
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    Hope this Labor Day holiday proves to be an extra-special one for y’all. Thought perhaps some might enjoy some ‘laborless’ levity from up here in wilds of the Last Frontier. Yesterday our game cam captured a truly incredible incident right in our front yard … a mythological Bigfoot emerging from the woods chasing a wild…

  • Uncertainty Therapy

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    The Last Frontier summer is rapidly fading into fall, and this aging ragamuffin’s fall season of life has already experienced winter’s first snows.   Uncertainty is a certainty of life. Lately, life’s uncertainties have been edging into my ponderings. A comforting quote I recently heard helps mitigate the ‘worry’ of uncertainty … “Write your plans…

  • Cycle of Life

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    Fred D
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    Yesterday we awoke to 2026’s first summer/fall transition snowfall … after all … it is August here in the Last Frontier A short road trip to Hatcher Pass was in order. Here’s a few summer/fall transition snowfall scenes that delighted our eyes with wonder. While Ellie chose to stay in the car, I took off…

  • Rainbow Promise Prints

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    Fred D
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    A woods wander, interspersed with sunshine and rain, was graced with my Creator’s celestial watercolors. “Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and a rainbow occurs in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy…

  • Glacial Grandeur

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    Fred D
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    In the Chugach Range lies the magnificent Matanuska Glacier. Creeping slowly forward at a rate of 1ft./day, this 27 miles long, 4 miles wide colossal frozen sheet births the headwaters of the Matanuska River, and is the largest glacier in the United States accessible by car. Practically in our front yard just 25 miles up…

  • Who’s Roaming Your Digs?

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    Fred D
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    Urbanites utilize doorbell camera security 😎 to record whoever may be roaming their premises. Here in the Last Frontier we rely on game cameras 😊 Here’s a couple recent vid clips of wanderers in our backyard. Fortunately, Mr. Grizz didn’t decide to visit at the same time as Mama and Bullwinkle Jr. came by 😧…