Abba's Art

Category: Photography

  • Silent Soul Stirrings

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    Deep early morning’s shadows draping the river valley, and mystical mountain mists silently stirred tranquility in my soul. A hen turkey suddenly peering in the kitchen window silently stirred a smile in my soul, and “The mountains are calling and I must go” yearning … so I went … up the trail to Castle Mt.…

  • Lucrative Fishing Fun

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    Fred D
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    The annual Sockeye salmon run in the Kenai River is peaking.  Huge schools are swimming upstream to their spawning tributaries. Sooooo …… Grant and I decided to make a 3 hr. scenic trek south in hopes of transporting some Sockeyes from the river to our freezer. Dipnetting is a favorite method of harvesting salmon in…

  • Planting Restoration

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    The emergence of fireweed blooms heralds the beginning of summer’s exit and the impending entrance of fall in the Last Frontier.  Much like the ubiquitous dandelion ‘Wonder Weed’, fireweed is edible and nutritious, possessing medicinal qualities attributed to mitigating migraine headaches, insomnia, anemia, delirium tremens, infections and colds. Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) is also one of…

  • Sustained … Carried … Rescued

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    This summer has found many in the Lower 48 battling oppressive heat, raging wildfires, and devastating floods. Gratefully we’ve been spared such maladies. It’s been cooler and damper than normal summer in the Last Frontier, with sunshine at a premium. Being a sunshine fan, were it possible, I would negotiate with Mother Nature to restrict…

  • Wonder-Weed

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    It’s been a cooler than normal summer thus far in the Last Frontier. Today we awoke to a fresh dusting of snowflakes on mountains peaks, and ‘seed-flakes’ on the ground. A single dandelion plant can bloom multiple times each season with multiple flower heads producing over 15,000 seeds. Every puffy whitedandelion blowball seed head contains…

  • Sanity is Ageless 😊

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    Fred D
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    As my previous Happy 4th blog post proclaimed, “It’s OK to be a little nuts”. To substantiate that statement, below are a couple gamecam vid clips of both a young and an old Alaskan bull from two different species … one completely normal … one totally nutso! … Smile … I’m aware I need some…

  • Happy 4th!

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    Fred D
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    From our Last Frontier abode to yours we wish y’all an extra-special 4th of July together. This little guy showed up on our deck this morning with some squirrely life advice 😊. . . “Look both ways before you cross the road Stay active Eat plenty of fiber Confuse your enemies, change direction Be bright…

  • Last Frontier Father’s Day

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    Fred D
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    Hope y’all enjoyed a great Father’s Day. Yesterday Grant made the 70-mile trek from Anchorage’s ‘big city’ environs to the wilds of Chickaloon to spend the day together canoeing, fishing for trout, and 4-wheeling through the boondocks … a 5* Father’s Day! … (No, I didn’t actually bite into that trout 😊) “This is the…

  • Afternoon Art and Neighbors

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    Bright sunshine and balmy 72 degrees lured Ellie and I to take a short drive around our neighborhood. Our game-cam revealed Mr. Bullwinkle was also out strolling through our backyard.  Don’t know Mrs. and young Jr. were roaming. Here’s a few pics of some of the scenes of our Master’s artwork that held us ole…

  • Driving Through a Postcard

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    Fred D
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    Save for those who work from home on a laptop (some in PJs 😊), the average American’s commute time to work in is 25 -30 minutes. Many spend it weaving through expressway traffic; others brave crowded public transit; and some, like myself, are privileged to travel scenic rural roads. Here’s a scene from the creation…