Friday Morning Drive-Time

It's a dull, grey morning. Windy, with lowering clouds and a rainy forecast. The desire to do any meaningful work is even lower than the clouds, but one drags one's self to work (even if it is only a part-time job) and does what is expected. Staying home without the paycheck would have less than optimal results. 

Both the Old Farmer's Almanac and the National Weather Service insist that we'll have a warmer-than-usual summer. So far, that isn't happening. 58° again today, we're told.

Okay, so I'm over-thinking this. Fridays are like that sometimes.

We're truly entered the second (or is it first?) of our two primary seasons: winter and construction.

I'm afraid these pics don't do the scenery justice; that's what comes of using a cell phone instead of the Nikon.

Let's Play "Can You Spot the Dall Sheep?"

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Early Autumn

... in the Frozen North (what my niece used to call it).

I took this pic around 0700. 49 degrees, raining (both water and leaves). There's snow on the higher mountaintops around us. And AccuHunch thinks we'll be having lows in the 30s by the end of the upcoming week.

In other words, it's late August in southcentral Alaska.

Just Because: Alaska Scenery

"Super moon" rising over the Chugach Mtns, a couple of years ago.

Matanuska Glacier valley

Bald eagle on the beach at Homer, AK.

Moose's Tooth Mountain, Chugach Range

Me at the range after getting a new pistol for Christmas, some years ago.
Temp was around -5°, if memory serves.

Heading north on the Glen Highway, somewhere between Anchorage and Eagle River, AK.

Chugach Mtns, along the Glen Highway.

The Alaska Range, at extreme telephoto: Mt. Foraker (17,400 ft), Mt. Hunter (14,573 ft),
and Denali (20,310 ft) from left to right.

Mt. Spurr (active volcano) in the Tordrillo Range, 75 miles west of Anchorage. Last eruption was in 1992.

Chugach Mtns, from Anchorage

 

Standard issue grizzly bear, one each

Northern lights

Trans-Alaska Pipeline, somewhere in the Interior

Rainbow in the flats near the Talkeetna Mtns

Small boat harbor, Seward, AK

Pic from Fairbanks, AK, several years ago

Approaching Hatcher Pass

The Seward Highway, Kenai Peninsula, AK

A Little More Scenery

Sunday Scenery

The Drive Home, Today

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The Drive Home

I know it's my wont to go on and on about how beautiful this area is, but it's with some justification.
I rarely sit in the passenger seat, leaving my hands free, but today Older Daughter was driving. Here's part of our drive home.

Thanks to Blogger's ability to suck all the quality out of my HD recording, I don't recommend you enlarge the screen very much. Darn it.

Anti-Political Friday

It was 15° at our house this morning, and 12° down along the river. But the roads are dry & the morning commute went without incident.

I gave a few minutes' thought to a topic for the day, and realized I'm pretty much done with the all politics, all the time mentality ... at least, for now.

So here's some antipolitics to start the day:

Just a bit o' range time, for some much-needed recoil therapy & conversation with the local club.

Your tool of choice may vary.

The national organization, and the local group. :)

Mt. Spurr (active volcano) and the Tordrillo Mtns, visible above the berm.

Tools of the trade.

The view from my office (#1)

#2

#3

#4

And a late-summer view of the drive home