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Tag: Landscapes

  • Lucrative Fishing Fun

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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…

  • Last Frontier Father’s Day

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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…

  • Driving Through a Postcard

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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…

  • Home

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    Each of us has that special place where we may leave, but it will always claim the place our heart calls home. “Hey, it’s good to be back home again.” John’s Denver’s quote echoed in my mind as we touched down in Anchorage last Sunday. I suspect another oft mentioned quote echoed in John’s mind…

  • Nature’s Healing Touch

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    “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” – John Muir Such was my Lost and Found therapy wandering the Great Smoky Mountain forests. Shinrin-yoku (‘forest bathing’) is the Japanese practice of immersing oneself in the wilderness for mind and body healing renewal. John Muir expressed it as ……

  • Hawaiian Vacation

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    Traveling through 6 time zones with a couple hundred folks packed in a high-speed aluminum tube for 10 hours was the only part of our Hawaiian vacation that wasn’t total fun 😊 A definite Bucket List destination, our time in Aloha-land had our bucket overflowing with lifetime memories. Beginning in Honolulu on Oahu we visited…

  • But … Amazingly!

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    On Kona, the largest of Hawaii’s six islands, over 90% of is covered by lava less than 1,500 years old.  Driving around the Big Island, the vast expanses of lava conveyed an aura of desolation.   But … Amazingly! …  growing through the lava, small twisted trees with bright red flowers dotted the bleak landscape.…

  • Paths

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    Shinrin-yoku, ‘forest bathing’, is a Japanese term proclaiming the peace of body, mind and soul found in Nature. Today mine was found wandering mile-high paths along the TN/NC border in the Great Smoky Mountains. Immersed in mountain vistas wonder, my journey was shared with a lone Cervus canadensis. “Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your…