Monthly Archives: November 2005

My mom

Rauha Elizabeth Siukola Green, 23 Oct 1928 – 29 Nov 2005 Please light a candle for her.

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Beaver dam on McDonald Creek

Glacier National Park, Montana. 13 Nov 2003. Just a little over two years ago, I was in northwest Montana visiting my family, & one day took off with my brother Dave & sister-in-law Linda to Glacier Park. We didn’t go … Continue reading

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Willow catkins & spruce

St Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Church, Arctic Boulevard, Anchorage, Alaska. 1 May 2005. In the dark of the year, it’s sometimes good to recall spring. I took this photo on a blustery Anchorage May day — on May Day … Continue reading

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Café Felix

Café Felix, next to Metro Music & Books, Anchorage, Alaska. 20 Nov 2005. Café Felix has become one of my Sunday writing venues. Great organic coffee, tea, & food — all their coffee is Fair Trade, too. Besides, it’s just … Continue reading

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Tracks embedded in ice

A sidewalk along Benson Boulevard, Anchorage, Alaska. 20 Nov 2005. In the past few days we’ve had snow, followed by freezing rain, followed by snow (lots of it!). And so our sidewalks are becoming… interesting. Sometimes impassible, at least for … Continue reading

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Monkshood

Near Glen Alps, Chugach State Park, just outside Anchorage, Alaska. 19 Jul 2003. This is Aconitum delphinifolium, a species native to Alaska. There are numerous monkshood species around the world. Also known as wolfsbane, monkshood is deadly poisonous — full … Continue reading

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Field mint in winter

Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, Alaska. 12 Feb 2005. Winter is not so spare a time of year as one may be tempted to think, when there is beauty like this to be seen. Follow this photo to the comments on it … Continue reading

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Snowflakes on glove tip

Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, Alaska. 12 Feb 2005. One very cold afternoon last February, Rozz & I took a long plant walk around Westchester Lagoon (the part between Spenard Drive & Minnesota). This is Rozz’s glove tip.

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Tattooed beachwalker

Homer Spit, Homer, Alaska. 3 Jul 2005. It makes me feel great just to look at this photo, because that’s me standing in that water, & I know what surrounded me on this beach walk, & I love my fireweed … Continue reading

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My mukluks

  Arctic muklukswith ribbon   Here, by the way, is a picture of the kind of Steger mukluks that I have, & if you click on the pik it’ll take you where you can order a pair of your own, … Continue reading

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