North Slope Trip

The Yukon River . . .
















Toward the Arctic












Musk Ox












Caribou












I'm ready for my closeup . . .











Toward the pipeline . . .










Arctic Red Fox











Process piping . . .









my jungle gym . . .










Heavy equipment











Radar dome in Deadhorse






Endicott Island summer/winter
















Musk Ox















Curious cubs . . .


















The Alaska Pipeline












Share the road . . .












Arctic Red Fox . . .













North slope tundra . . .










Modular facilities . . .














Arctic Fox














Hi there . . .












drill rig . . .













caribou















Mt. Readoubt . . . erupting . . .

more London . . .

Westminster Abbey . . .

















Wandered down to the Thames . . . looking toward London . . .












The London Eye . . .















Big Ben . . .













The St. Paddy's Day Parade down off Picadilly . . .
















Saw the guards at several locations . . .

















Buckingham Palace . . .





























Um, what was the name of this Arch . . .

Where was I . . . round pond outside of Kennsington Palace . . . many swans . . .
















Kennsington Palace . . . from the back side . . .





















The Albert Memorial . . . across from Royal Albert Hall!



Royal Albert Hall . . .











Marble Arch . . .

and Then there is this . . . interesting . . .













Still working my way through my first day in London . . . I'll be back with more later . . .

Wecome to London! . . . What do you mean you can't turn off the alarm clock? . . . and the lifts aren't working? . . . hum, I wonder why? . . . oh, and they want us all to go stand out and enjoy the sunrise this morning! . . . hum, a clue . . .


Well I'm up, and the day is getting started . . . might as well make the most of it . . .

Now, how in the world do you know which one is yours? . . .













Ah, of course . . . each one has a different door knob! . . . well the numbers differ too, but . . . some of the door knobs are pretty distinctive!

On my way to Hyde Park, f rom Paddington Station . . . just took the London Express from Heathrow . . . lots of flat, rather featureless land along the rail route . . . predominantly industrial on one side, and housing on the other . . . all along the tracks . . .

Ah, once in Hyde Park . . . some interesting and fairly old trees! . . . spring is springing, but not quite there yet.















See . . . its trying to get colorful! . . .

Well, I'll be back . . . much more to come . . .

Return to Anchorage . . .

Fur Rondi . . . a week of winter festival with all kinds of activities throughout the city. This was the start of the dog sled finals . . . watched a few of the teams take off, then went down to the snowshoe softball game . . .
















More of the dogs . . .


















and anther team . . .









Campbell Creek . . . outside my window . . .





Sunsetting from my office window . . . looking south
across midtown Anchorage.

Mt. Rainier . . . southeast to northeast side . . . on a normal, foggy . . . cloudy day! Yeah, there is a mountain in there somewhere!


Glacial scouring . . .

Southwest of Mt. Ranier . . .


Glacial water flow . . .

Serene scenes . . . water flowing down . . .
Top of Christine Falls on the way up Mt. Rainier . . .

Feeding into Christine Falls . . .

Flow above Narada Falls . . .



Nisqually river looking up toward Nisqually Glacier . . . and the fog . . .


June on Rainier . . . yes, there is still quite a snow pack near the visitors center.

Falls at White Pass . . . upper Tieton River . . .


From White Pass looking East . . .

PNL - Richland, WA . . .

My current project . . . a fairly quick job on a Department of Energy Site, the Pacific Northwest National Lab, which is connected with the Hanford Site in Washington State.

Looking up the Columbia River in Richland Washington.

Looking Down River at Richland, WA
From the PNL campus looking toward the river.

ISB2 on PNL Campus . . . pretty campus, lots of green mowed grass and trees . . . which is odd since there aren't many trees beyond the campus!

One of the dividers between the parking lots and roadways . . .

The Guest House at PNL . . . where I'm living for a few weeks . . .