Holiday Season 2011

Cape Ferillo . . .





































































Cresent City - - -



















Sea Lion

















Leggett Drive Thru Redwood

Redwoods along route 1 outside of Fort Bragg

Glass Beach glass . . .

More Glass . . .

Fort Bragg Glass Beach

Anchorage outside BP Tower looking east . . .

Deleware River from New Castle . . .

Fall into Winter . . .

Winter is here . . . we have a bit more than a foot of snow on the ground and the moose are finishing up their rutting season . . . so the boys are all decked out . . . here is an angle, just for Pat's butt collection . . . ;)









He was all over this little tree getting what he could . . .












just a shot of my driveway . . . with the snows coming down . . .











and a week or two earlier . . . the skies clean and clear . . . bright moon shot . . .












A little girl visiting in the fall . . . think she was looking for oscar, as she stayed there on the end of the driveway quite awhile looking up at my window.









Midnight moon shot . . .

End of summer in my backyard . . .

Oscar was here all summer . . .watching for moose . . . and look what shows up the day after he leaves!

Here is Mt. McKinley / Denali, Mt. Hunter
and Mt. Foraker from Pt. Woronzof across
Cook Inlet south of Anchorage Airport.

Near Earthquake Park . . . Mt. McKinley/Denali on an August Day . . .











Backyard pool . . .










Young beaver in the pool . . .











a couple kids in the new family . . .











Reflected Duck butt . . . just for Pat! :)

















The Duck family is getting bigger!










Some nice reflections on the pool . . .











9pm in August . . . nice place to walk.

Musk Ox Farm

Very interesing creatures . . . total of 66 at the farm on this day. Combed for Quviet in April each year . . . Quviet sent to Rhode Island for processing into yarn, then the yarn is sent to local villages in Alaska for knitting into products.

Goliath - 4 year old male in rut

Farm is 57 years into a process for making the oomingmak into a domesticated animal. They live to be 12 to 20 years old . . . eat about 10 lbs of vegitation per week and use all the nutrition, thier excriment has no nutritional value . . .





Eve - 4 year old female















Yearling female












Yearling Male

Gorgeous Day in the neighborhood . . .

Anchorage was in the haze, but some nice fluffy clouds over the bowl . . .












A view of Flat Top in the summer . . .












Looking up the valley from Glen Alps trail head













Glen Alps . . . on a summers eve . . .
















Three Baron's RenFest in Anchorage . . . a couple of weekends in early June . . . has a long way to go to contend with Crownsville, or many others!













Battle chess tournament













trying to be in period . . .

A trip to the interior - Fairbanks 2011

The Alaska Range from the North side . . . couldn't get around the haze . . .


































new young caribou . . .














Musk Ox holding her winter coat










Some wild life at the hot springs . . .




























Looking toward the front and the work room area . . .
















Drinking an appletini from an ice glass, i.e. more wild life at the hot springs!










The mirror is about the only thing not made of ice.










Chenga Hot Springs Ice Museum from the outside . . .











Chenga Hot Springs Ice Museum, yes, there are roooms in the ice museum you can stay in!












The adult pool at Chenga Hot Springs - no kids allowed! . . . ahhhh the true wild life at the hot springs . . .











Quite a few of these guys hanging out at Creamer's Field.










Here are the birds that are expected at Creamer's Field . . . we had plenty of Canadain Geese while there.











Musk Ox at the Universtiy of Alaska Fairbanks












A couch on the side of the road about 20 miles south of Fairbanks on the Parks Hiway.












Hiway rest stop in Denali State Park . . . still a bit early to try to use this stop! . . . it is like the Denali overlook pull outs . . . both north and south still packed with snow . . .









Spring and Mt. McKinley makes an appearance . . . haven't seen it much this past year, or maybe I'm not looking as much these days.