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Monday Mutterings: Seward Mural Hunt Pt 1
April 03, 2023 - Seward is a very popular summer destination for those that visit Alaska. It offers great fishing, the Alaska SeaLife Cen...
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Monday Mutterings: Fur Rondy Snow Sculptures 2023
March 13, 2023 - Every year the city of Anchorage hosts a wild and crazy celebration in late February called the "Fur Rendezvous" or Fur...
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Monday Moose Mutterings: Eddie the Eagle
March 06, 2023 - On the way home from work one evening I spied a massive bird sitting in a tree above a parking lot. So I did what any ph...
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Monday Mutterings: Fun with Fungi
February 27, 2023 - I find small things intriguing, especially those that are often overlooked because we are usually too busy looking at th...
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Monday Mutterings: Top 5 Places I have Loved to Photograph
February 13, 2023 - In most areas of the world this week is all about love so I thought I would stick with that theme and show you some of t...
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Monday Mutterings: Prince of Wales Island (Southeast Alaska)
March 29, 2021 - Prince of Wales Island is a hidden gem at the bottom of the Alaska Panhandle. It is the third largest island in the Unit...
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Monday Muterings: Utqiagvik (aka Barrow), AK
September 16, 2019 - Last spring I visited Utqiagvik, aka Barrow, AK in March and to be honest I wasn't sure what to expect. Barrow sits abou...
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Monday Mutterings: Aurora Season has begun!
September 17, 2018 - My Aurora season has begun!! Just like any hunter, I look forward to Aurora season! To be honest there is no "season" fo...
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Monday Mutterings: Scout Ridge & Overlook Trail
September 10, 2018 - I had a little time to kill while in Wasilla and so I headed down to the Palmer Hay Flats and decided to take the Scout...
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Monday Mutterings: Yard challenge
August 27, 2018 - Living in Alaska gives me so many opportunities as a photographer to capture some impressive and vast landscapes and wil...
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Monday Mutterings: Flowers
July 30, 2018 - Every spring I start to go a little stir crazy, not because I have been locked up in a cabin or anything like that but I...
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Monday Mutterings: Day trip to Hatcher Pass
July 23, 2018 - If you are anywhere around Anchorage and want a stunning day trip I highly suggest driving through Hatcher Pass. Now thi...
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Monday Mutterings: Bad, bad Bart!
July 16, 2018 - Let me introduce you to bad, bad Bart. We found Bart when we were out kayaking at Otter Lake on Joint Base Elmendorf-Ric...
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Monday Mutterings: Amazing Aviation
July 09, 2018 - I decided to head to our local air show at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson called the Arctic Thunder Open House. They ho...
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Monday Mutterings: Introducing Frank the Moose
June 25, 2018 - I would like to introduce you to Frank the Moose. I found Frank at the Eagle River Campground where I was staying for a...
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Monday Mutterings: Exploring the Kenai
June 11, 2018 - My family and I were able to go down to the Kenai Peninsula and spend a few days exploring the area around Kenai and Sol...
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Tuesday's Trails: Rodak Nature Trail
June 05, 2018 - So I am starting up a Tuesday's Trail blog with the trails we decide to try out this summer. I am hoping they will be fr...
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Monday's Mutterings: Adventures of Bonnie & Clyde
June 04, 2018 - My family and went fishing on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on a little land bridge in between the Upper and Lower 6 M...
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Monday Mutterings: Baby Moose
May 21, 2018 - I love this time of year! The trees are starting to turn green and leaf out. The flowers are starting to show their buds...
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Monday Mutterings:Juvenile Antics
May 14, 2018 - Living in South Central Alaska I have plenty of opportunities to watch the Bald Eagles that nest all over the place. I h...
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Monday Mutterings: Midwinter Drive
February 12, 2018 - I don't know if I have made it known yet but I love Alaska. I love it during the summer with its abundance of sunlight,...
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Monday Mutterings: Super Blue Blood Moon
February 05, 2018 - So this last week we were all able to witness something that does not happen very often, a Super Blue Blood Moon. The na...
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Monday Mutterings: Textures
January 15, 2018 - Life is full of texture. For a photographer texture can take a boring photograph and make it extraordinary and to me lif...
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Monday Mutterings: The Alaska Zoo
December 11, 2017 - If you are in the Anchorage area and your looking for something family friendly to do, or if you are an animal lover, lo...
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Monday Mutterings: Changing the "clothes"
October 09, 2017 - It is amazing how different a place can look depending on the weather conditions and time of year. I have my regular pla...
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Monday Mutterings: Nothing but Bull!
October 02, 2017 - One of my favorite things about fall, besides the amazing coloring from the leaves, is that the bull moose are out in al...
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Monday Mutterings: Fall along the Glenn & Richardson Highways
September 18, 2017 - Good morning! Like many areas in the country we are starting to see the onset of fall. My family and I decided to make a...
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Monday Mutterings: Glaciers, glaciers and watery animals!
September 11, 2017 - So when we took the train to Whittier we caught a glacier cruise out of Whittier. We chose to go with Phillips Cruises &...
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Monday Mutterings: Traveling the Alaska Railroad
August 28, 2017 - Another great day trip from Anchorage doesn't even require a car!
An awesome way to get out and explore Alaska is the A...
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Monday Mutterings: Hatcher Pass- a great view!
August 21, 2017 - If you are looking for a fabulous day trip from Anchorage, look no further than Hatcher Pass.
Head north out of Ancho...
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Monday Mutterings: Fireweed Therapy
July 31, 2017 - This time of year provides one of my favorite flowers: Fireweed!!
This flower tends to line our roads, fill our field...
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Tuesday's Trails: Relfections Lake Trail
July 11, 2017 - I have decided to start a small series about the trails that my family and I venture on. We are just starting out on our...
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Monday Muttering: Black bears
July 10, 2017 - Bears are a pretty regular thing in Alaska, especially in the south, southeast and southwestern regions. In fact, it is...
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Monday Mutterings: Moose Mania
June 19, 2017 - I love moose! I adore how completely gangly they look with their massive main body, long spindly legs, oddly large head...
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Monday Mutterings: Spruce Tip Jelly- Canning season has begun!
June 12, 2017 - For the most part I love to photograph animals and landscape but all things in nature intrigue me both to photograph and...
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Monday Mutterings: Prickly Porcupines
June 05, 2017 - If you have been following my photos for very long you will notice quite a few that feature the bristly porcupine. I did...
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Monday Muttering: Exploring the Homer Spit
May 29, 2017 - My family and I were lucky enough to spend a weekend down on the Homer spit. This time we came down with our camper and...
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Monday Mutterings: Respect the Wildlife
May 22, 2017 - Now that the animals have started to come out of their winter hibernations and homes it has come to my attention that on...
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Monday Mutterings: They are back!!
May 15, 2017 - I am soooo happy to say that they are back! and by they I mean wildlife. In the last couple weeks our world has made the...
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Monday Mutters: Eagle River Campground review
May 08, 2017 - So we needed to take our camper out for a test run after a long winter. Actually, we look for any excuse to get out in o...
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Monday Muttering; Storm cloud scenery!
May 01, 2017 - We are finally in full springtime mode up here. The snow is almost completely melted in most areas, although because we...
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Monday Muttering: Denali National Park
April 24, 2017 - So I decided to do quick day trip up to Denali National Park this weekend. Denali is about 4 hours north of us. It is qu...
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Raven, a.k.a the Big Black Chickens
April 20, 2017 - Our first morning in Alaska was spent in the cab of our truck, we had come into port in Juneau at 4am and decided to get...
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Monday Mutterings: Quackers!!!
April 10, 2017 - During breakup it is sometimes hard to find the critters as they are dealing with the soft snow and sucking mud and that...
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Monday Mutterings: Alaskan style March Madness
April 03, 2017 - I know, I know, I have complained and complained about the weather that last couple months; but the crazy Alaskan weathe...
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Monday Mutterings: Early spring visit to Seward
March 20, 2017 - If you come to Alaska a great place to visit is Seward. It is a small harbor town on the Kenai Peninsula. It is surround...
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Monday Mutterings: bring on the ice!
March 13, 2017 - Well it is that time of year again. After spending almost 6 full months in a state of freezing temps, and most of that u...
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Monday Mutterings: Spirits in the Sky
March 06, 2017 - I am happy to report that last week Lady Aurora came on strong and South-Central Alaska's weather was finally clear and...
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Good morning visitors!
March 03, 2017 - This morning, when I went to let the dogs out, it looked like it was snowing off of my back porch. This would not be unu...
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Monday Mutterings: Visiting Alaska in the winter
February 27, 2017 - This last week I was lucky enough to have my sister and niece come and visit me, which I was stoked about. She has never...
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Birds of a feather
February 17, 2017 - This morning I happened to look out my window and it looked like someone was remaking the movie 'The Birds'. There was a...
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Monday Mutterings: Roadside Coral
February 13, 2017 - The weather here has been full of ups and downs and in January we received an almost record breaking snowfall for the mo...
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Day of the Dogs
February 09, 2017 - We were lucky enough to get to try a unique Alaskan adventure. We went for a dog sledding ride on our local military bas...
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Monochrome World
February 06, 2017 - First and foremost let me state that I love where I live. I love Alaska. I love the wildness of its nature, the wildlife...
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Our winter is finally here.
January 28, 2017 - Winter has finally arrived for those up in the Anchorage area. January has brought us over 2 feet of snow that has manag...
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Scottish squirrels
October 21, 2016 - So my son needed to gather rocks for a science experiment and me being me, couldn't just let him gather them from our ya...
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Just another crazy adventure
October 14, 2016 - When you get a prediction for a fabulous Aurora night you generally plan on staying out all night to get the shots you w...
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First winter storm
September 21, 2016 - Well we just weathered our first winter storm. This storm wasn't our normal dumping a bunch of snow on us storm but rath...
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Fun finds
September 20, 2016 - Spent another great evening tootling around the back roads around Anchorage. We managed to spy 3 moose, and 6 porcupines...
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Portage-Whittier
September 04, 2016 - If you are looking for a beautiful day trip from the Anchorage area look no further than the Portage valley. It is just...
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Hatcher Pass
September 03, 2016 - So in between naps this week the family and I snuck up to Hatcher Pass, which is just a bit north of us. The drive throu...
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The blur
September 03, 2016 - Life has become a blur around here, thanks to almost a full week of Aurora shooting. You wouldn't think it would make th...
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Lady Aurora
August 30, 2016 - So I have spent the last 3 nights staring up at the starry night sky while wrapped in a sleeping bag waiting for Lady Au...
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