A new gaggle of snow geese, maybe fifty in all, has just landed. I walk wide past their feeding area over a knoll and onto the beach.
Snow Geese
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Covid crisis
It was really just a trip to buy flowers and maybe pick up a newspaper. First the bright orange Cheetos package caught my eye. But my inner food filter yelled, NO!!! So I wandered past. > I was looking for coffee when I stumbled into the cookie aisle. Just a small...
The Wisdom of Puppies
Yesterday I received this photo from my son. He managed to capture a bear with very little brain.
“when I am silent”
"When I am silent, I fall into a place where everything is music." Rumi In the stillness, raindrops, bird song and shuttering spruce boughs sing with wild abandon. Squirrels toss cones to the ground with a loud thud. Waves lick the sand with their erotic salty kisses....
Mama Mendenhall Mountain Goat!!
The last day of sun took me to the waterfall by the Mendenhall Glacier. It is enough to witness the glacier, the surrounding peaks and the pussy willows just emerging. But today there was a bonus. A one horned mama goat was teaching her kid to step carefully along the steep rocky cliffs.
Easter Stars
The ocean pulls back into herself revealing secrets. Starfish, anemones, mystery egg sacs and a pink and blue worm wriggle in the mud. If you really want to discover the intertidal world, follow a three year old. They?re closer to the ground, have super eye sight and...
Good Friday
Following a ?bad Thursday? as snow tumbled out of a gray sky, Good Friday appeared with a warm sunshine. There was also a minus tide allowing us to access shaman island. I drove to North Douglas, hiked the beautiful rain forest trail and emerged on the beach. Puddling...
Dear “Toothfairy”
Today we are entering our third or fourth month of the ?coronavirus?. We are mostly staying at home. We are learning how to zoom around the internet for yoga, classes, meetings, and family visits. Fortunately, we are ?allowed? to go for walks in our beautiful Alaskan...
Baleen Ballet
Sound of bubbles the perfect sphere Then at the center eleven whales appear Gulping krill wide mouthed they lunge Skim the surface submerge and plunge We hold our breath as they exhale A bold burst of sound then a tail An echo lingers in the still and waiting day...
Message from Tenakee
Hello friends and family far and near. May you be well and calm during this global pandemic moment in our shared history. Love from Tenakee Springs.
Taking A Bath
Part 1: Getting in, I stand naked staring at the hot water. gingerly placing one foot into the tub. Bending over I brace myself on porcelain. Lifting a second foot over and into the tub. I grab both faucets and try to squat. Down, down, down, drop and splash!
Mask Up!!
There once was a girl from Alaska Whose mom said "you must wear a maska" There is a health crisis We'll eat beans and rices You'll home school and do all your taskas!
Two year old eating blueberries
June 12, 2020 In the midst of a global pandemic, climate crisis, and racial injustice, this image showed up today. This little two year old LOVES his book, ?The Bear in the Blueberry? and listens to it every night. He took the ?bear fact? about how the bears eat...
Friendly Fathom
I wandered lost in the wonder of the indomitable spirit of spring when suddenly a handsome man with shoulder length curls and a wide smile opened his arms and said, ?friendly fathom!”?
Mother’s Day Week-end in Tenakee Springs
I flew out to my cabin in Tenakee on a beautiful 70 degree spring day. The pilot and I were masked up and ready to go. Shortly after I arrived, turned on my well water and unpacked, I put together a light supper. I took my smoked salmon, red wine, garden salad and...
Snow Geese
A new gaggle of snow geese, maybe fifty in all, has just landed. I walk wide past their feeding area over a knoll and onto the beach.
Covid crisis
It was really just a trip to buy flowers and maybe pick up a newspaper. First the bright orange Cheetos package caught my eye. But my inner food filter yelled, NO!!! So I wandered past. > I was looking for coffee when I stumbled into the cookie aisle. Just a small...
The Wisdom of Puppies
Yesterday I received this photo from my son. He managed to capture a bear with very little brain.
“when I am silent”
"When I am silent, I fall into a place where everything is music." Rumi In the stillness, raindrops, bird song and shuttering spruce boughs sing with wild abandon. Squirrels toss cones to the ground with a loud thud. Waves lick the sand with their erotic salty kisses....
Mama Mendenhall Mountain Goat!!
The last day of sun took me to the waterfall by the Mendenhall Glacier. It is enough to witness the glacier, the surrounding peaks and the pussy willows just emerging. But today there was a bonus. A one horned mama goat was teaching her kid to step carefully along the steep rocky cliffs.