Tag: Travel
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Truth Political
The link at the end is to a song shared with me by Jonathan Rockey. I met Jonathan on a ‘coincidental’ Divine Appointment over a decade ago. One of my trusted and much needed spiritual mentors, the Lord, brought him into my life to help navigate my wandering life’s journey. Cross country skiing across a…
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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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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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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…
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Rainbow Promise Prints
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…
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Dolly’s Legacy
Along with countless others, my wife and are grieving Dolly’s passing, only eased by knowing someday we will be forever reunited. Ellen and I are blessed to be able to snowbird between two awesome corners of Creation … the vast Greatland of Alaska, and the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains of TN. Our TN home is…
