Tag: Photography
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Waves and Winds
Mailboxes crammed full of political, mud-slinging, glossy flyers; angry left/right journalism fueled by vitriolic TV commercials; and the awkward avoidance of ‘all things political’ discussions among friends hopefully will now begin to fade in our Nation’s rearview mirror. The recent ‘Blue Wave’ election finds American citizens ambivalently optimistic/pessimistic, uncertain about our Nation’s future. One thing…
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Backyard Beauty and Bulls
Even on a cloudy day, Fall in the Great Smoky Mountains is a breathtakingly spectacular season. It’s one of the attractions which enticed nearly 12 million visitors last year, making it our Nation’s most visited National Parks. Yesterday Ellie and I traveled upward through this awesome color-fest to Kuwohi (formerly Klingman’s Dome), rising 6,643 ft.…
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‘Thin Space’ Stones
An inspiring blogger I follow recently posted about a poignant, mystical presence of her deceased father as her children and friend beach-combed for agates. Wynne prefaces her post, “There is nothing scientifically provable in this story. But it’s still 100% true.” (https://wynneleon.com/?s=Agate+Magic) I too have been blessed with such unscientific, magical ‘thin space’ moments .…
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Elvis, Romeo and Me
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…
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Anti-aging AI Inhibitors
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…
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Beauty for Ashes
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…
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Labor Day Guests
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…
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Labor Day Levity
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…
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Uncertainty Therapy
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…
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Cycle of Life
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…
