Aerial of Seward, Alaska.
Well aside from the one to two feet of snow South-central Alaska received last Saturday, it is great to be home! I love that drive down the Seward Highway, through the mountains and along the coast – I think I counted five moose on the way home. I also love the fresh air, it hits you as soon as you step out of the airport terminal.
This photo was captured during summer a couple of years ago. Here are more Alaska photos.
This plant seems to have many names and uses. Some call it Thorn-Apple, or Sacred Datura, or even Jimson Weed. The entire plant is poisonous, but portions of the plant are used in modern pharmaceuticals for things like motion sickness medication and to counteract muscle spasms. Not surprisingly, Native Americans were also aware of the many medicinal benefits of this plant.
It is about the only thing blooming in Anza-Borrego right now, this plant will bloom most the summer. We should be back in Alaska Saturday night, it will be a little while before flowers begin blooming there.Read More
This photo was on the card in my back-up camera, a camera I didn’t need on this trip. I do remember taking this photo before leaving on this trip. This is a snow storm raging outside our front door; you can see the door frame on the edges. Normally I keep a path shoveled down to the street out front, but the snow was filling it in so fast that I said forget it and took a picture instead.
Finding this photo kind of reminded me of my film days when a partial roll would get left in a camera after a trip, only to be developed weeks or months later. It would often be a nice surprise.
I must admit, after a couple months in the warm desert, this scene looks completely foreign to me right now. I have often said that during the summer in Alaska, I have trouble even remembering what winter is like, and in the winter, summer seems equally inconceivable. I remember enough to know I am very excited to be heading back to Alaska for summer! Here are more Alaska photos.
Actually this is a jackrabbit, so maybe I should have titled this Silly Wack-wabbit. 🙂
Seems like at the end of a trip we start evaluating our travel plans and methods. Our trips outside Alaska to the Lower 48 have typically been fairly long trips for a couple of reasons.Read More
These cool elephant looking animals are actually metal sculptures of gomphotherium. These guys actually used to roam in the Anza-Borrego area 3.7 million yeas ago – the gomphotherium, not the sculptures. 🙂 Read More
Back-lit ocotillo against a shadowed hillside. These guys were really getting bright red!
A Gila Woodpecker tends to a nest cavity in a Saguaro Cactus – McDowell Mountain Regional Park, Arizona.Read More
Owl’s Clover.
This Owl’s Clover really has nothing to do with our web server – we were adjusting a few photos from earlier in the trip for a customer, and I thought it was kinda purdy, so I went with it.
Our main photo website seems to grow in spurts, and lately it has really been spurting. According to Webalizer, we had over 336,000 visitors last month! This month is even busier. I believe Webalizer counts spiders and repeat visitors, so that number is probably a bit overstated , but even if you reduce it by a third, it is still a lot of great activity.
That’s the good news, now the bad. Read More
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