Alaskan Summer
 Anchorage, from Earthquake Park, with a backdrop of mountains. |
It has been a year since I moved out of Alaska, but I still consider myself an Alaskan and hope to return often. These are some of the photos I took while I was there last summer. As anyone who has lived or visited there knows, Alaska is a photographer's dream and unbelievable scenes abound. |
| I had a lovely Alaskan
summer Some of my highlights were my
trip to Homer with my friend, Ken, and my trip to Chena
Hot Springs with my greatgrandson, Brian, and his mom and
uncle. Workwise, my highlights were getting my dream started by giving a couple of seminars here where I'm known. And I'm developing a professional webpage which I will be putting on the net when I get "Outside". When it is up I'll include the url here so you can check it out. |
 This big guy ran past me while I was at Chena. Of course this tourist had her camera and used it! |
 Ninilchick, on the way from Anchorage to Homer. A quaint village with old cabins and tv dishes, traditional fishing boats and modern RV's. |
Alaska has always been kind to me and this summer was no different. I will especially remember all of my 'angels'…. people who were there for me when I needed them with what I needed at the time. You provided this nomad with places to stay and this budding entrepreneur with ideas and contacts and helped me to get my business up and running. Many of you are Alaskans, but not all…..my angels are spread from Alaska to California and from Oregon to Florida. Bless you all! |
But when, in August, the trees started turning a bit brown and it was no longer light all night and the sunny weather was beginning to have that fall bite to it, I knew it was time time for the geese and the tourists, including myself, to leave...so I did. I went back to Portland and caught up on things and then I went to Wenatchee to visi my daugher, Leanne and play Grandma to my two grandsons there. We went to the fair (my third fair this summer), and made homemade bread and picked tomatoes off the vine for lunch. |
 Mountain sheep along the Seward Highway between Anchorage and Ninilchick. |
 Mt. McKinley (on the right) seen from the road on the way to Clitheroe, where I worked. |
My latest adventure has been selling my house and buying a condo in Vancouver WA, just across the Columbia River from Portland OR. Such a lot of bureacratic paperwork! I'm fortunate that my renters want to buy my house, so it should be just a matter of time. I'm looking forward to having my own home again. It's been over a year! As for traveling, Sue and Randy are planning to be in Spokane for Christmas and I want to be somewhere in the vicinity then. And I'd like to spend some of the coldest months of the winter in the Riverside area. |
