Springing . . . the icicles waning . . .

losing mass quickly . . .














they started getting spindly . . .














and longer . . .

Not uncommon . . . here . . .

Moose traffic jam . . .

Fun with Icicles . . .

The icicles have been persistent this year . . . and interesting to watch them change through out the winter . . . following are about the same icicles over time . . .









and different times of day . . .

The backyard with the latest snow . . .

This little girl was back and hanging about . . .












My Icicles . . .


























It has been interesting watching these icicles grow and change through the winter . . .

Headed back to Alaska . . .

Sunny day after another foot or so of snow . . . about three in the afternoon, it will be dark soon . . . looking north











and out to the Cugach Mountains . . .









and back at work . . .











Off Cape Farello . . .














and sportsman beach . . .













and a bit further south . . .

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 . . .