This image “Grand Meander,” a Brooks Range river valley, is a great example of the magnificent landscape outside the window of the small plane on this day in late June: mountain peaks and braided streams in broad river valleys as far as my eyes can see. ...
Something about the quiet early morning sailing on the ferry, traveling home to Gustavus after a couple of busy days in Juneau, feels like a moment outside of time… We are suspended between the two worlds and my mind drifts. We make the turn around Point Retreat and...
It certainly has been a challenging summer at our house here on the Salmon River, for many reasons. The toughest task by far has been saying goodbye to our older dog Cassie as she left this life after contracting lymphoma. When I remembered that my very first blog...
It’s almost April! I look around me for signs of spring. Though the late winter has been rather mild (shhhhh, not too loud), sadly it’s not exactly spring busting out all over. Not yet anyway. But the short eared owl featured in this episode’s...
This winter morning, I’m grateful to have some sky to read, instead of the news feed on my phone. I sit quietly with my coffee and watch as the clouds move slowly from Pleasant Island over the meadow towards me from the southeast. There are some blank spots...
Moonlight reflections… I’ve been thinking and scheming on how to move forward with my art as a goal for the new year. There will be some new marketing efforts, trying to up the exposure level, and also – I hope – some skill building. ...