Abba's Art

Category: Photography

  • Peace on High

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    Fred D
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    ‘Invigorating’, below freezing wake-up temps have dramatically increased our wood stove’s log appetite; added windshield ice scraping to the car’s start-up routine; and nixed shorts and T-shirts as hiking attire . . . welcome to the Last Frontier 😊 From my admittedly, rural biased perspective, Anchorage, like all urban areas, is peacefully appealing . .…

  • “Hanging Out’ on High

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    Fred D
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    A couple decades ago, during my younger, more foolish days . . . now enjoying my older, still as foolish days😊 . . . I went hang-gliding at Alyeska Ski resort in Girdwood, Alaska . .  a  premier, adrenaline infused experience deserving a repeat performance. Covetously watching hang-gliders soaring among the clouds above Hatcher Pass…

  • Bullwinkle Wins

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    Fred D
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    This past month countless nimrods have been roaming the Last Frontier’s vast wilderness stretches searching for trophy antlers to to adorn the wall of their dens and stock their freezers full of Bullwinkle burgers and steaks. ]Moose season ended today. With a feral flair of arrogant defiance, looked who strolled across our front yard today…

  • Life’s Finale Choice

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    Fred D
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    In a chillingly pristine, flowing Matanuska River tributary, I watched in wonder today as spawning sockeye salmon displayed both this life’s genesis and finale . . . so like us. Conceived to life in an unfathomable act of co-creation with our Creator, we launched into life’s ocean. In a span of time known only to…

  • Last Frontier Dinner Date

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    Fred D
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    Sunday morning we awoke to an invigorating 30 degrees and the mountains coated with a fresh layer of termination dust. By afternoon temps had risen to a balmy 50 degrees and my permanent girlfriend and I headed up the road to Long Rifle. A rustic,  pure Alaskan restaurant, it’s perched on the mountainside overlooking the…

  • Oceanfront Splendor

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    Fred D
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    Like oceanfront property? Me too, and Alaska has 33,904 miles of it. Yesterday my son Grant and I were treated to a bird’s eye view of fall’s splendor adorning Turnagain Arm’s shoreline hiking the mountainsides south of Anchorage . . . God’s fingerprints imprinted the vistas we savored together. “He gathers the waters of the…

  • Glimpsing Eternity

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    Fred D
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    I’m often asked why Alaska is where my soul finds its Shalom. Watching in silent awe as my Abba sets the heavens ablaze at dawn is but one reason that overwhelms my senses in grateful wonder  . . . I glimpse Eternity “If I rise on the wings of dawn, if I settle on the…

  • Last Frontier Fall

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    Fred D
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    Summer has gone, Fall has arrived Awaking each morning, rejoicing alive “Weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning.” I M Blessed . . . May U B 2 Keep Looking Up ^ . . . His Best is Yet to Come!

  • Cyber Outage/Social Inage

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    Fred D
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    On October 5th a colossal, unplanned social and economic cyber-communication undertaking was launched in Sitka, Alaska, now labeled  The Great Sitka Outage of 2024.  For the past 5 days some 8,000 Sitkans have been forced to communicate without their computers and phones. A break in the sole fiber optic cable connecting the town to the…

  • Father/Son Hike

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    Fred D
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    Father/Son Hike A decade ago my son Grant and I hiked up Lazy Mt. in Palmer Alaska. He was 22, and I 71. It took us 4 hours. Yesterday we summited Lazy Mt. together once again. It took us nearly 6 hours. Either the trail somehow got longer, or a senior physiological hiking factor was…