Yellow Ice

***********************************************************************************
Yellow Ice was taken at the Lakes main gate right after the first snow .....The plants were still covered with ice and were just beginning to thaw......trying to get down to the level the plant....

************************************************************************************
Main computer with all my programs was hit by a bad program( new upload for a protection program) and we have been working on getting it fixed ..looks like a new computer is on it's way to our house....
so I am working on laptop for the next week ...
But there is some good news we managed to save all photos Yeah but so far only half the business info for taxes ,,,looks like a lot of midnight work to bring all business info back to normal....and life goes on as normal .....

**********************************************************************************
**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...


More Photos can be viewed at FLICKR

B*U*T*T A S*E*A*T

Please take the time to sit and think upon your life on this little bench
read my poem
think about life


B*U*T*T A S*E*A*T
It is butt a small wooden bench
made to sit and rest for butt for a while
Butt through the years it has aged with waiting
waiting for lessons of life of those whom sit and rest for butt a while
For what is a bench butt a place to sit your tired and weary butt to butt contemplate the life of butts
....my little poem of the lonely bench in North Pole Alaska ...Rebecca Weatherford 2009
It has been a long week and it has just began,,,,When I went to pictures my attitude was one of lonely sad and over burdened with life ..this looked like a place to sit for a while and think ..

what does one think about on park benches ?

Please do visit my Flickr Pages

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

Today in Explore

Today one of my photos was again in Flickr Explore ...after the big glitch a few weeks back ...nothing of mine appeared .....as silly as this sounds ... I felt as if I was being punished for something....picture after picture...nothing ..then there it was this morning another photo in Explore with a great high number....then bam it was gone ...oh well at least I felt happy for a few minutes
the above photo was taken on a trip across Alaska to get wood for our business and it was a beautiful fall day here in Alaska

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...
Please remember to visit my Flickr

Play time on a rainy day

Today I got up in a rainy day mood ...played in Picasa3 for a little while and these photos are what i cam up with ....Trying to get out of this mood of rainy day blues


Delightfully Frilly


Delightfully Frilly taken in Alaskaland Park On my walk about with a Flickr friend ......
did this in black and white because there seems to be a mood for that lately in my life .....

Hidden Bud

Just a little photo play with the different tools in Picasa3 ...its a rainy day here today in North Pole and we are very bored with things in general.......above shot is center crop of Delightfully Frilly

Golden Bud

Just a little photo play with the different tools in Picasa3 ...its a rainy day here today in North Pole and we are very bored with things in general.......above shot is lower edge crop of Delightfully Frilly

Hidden Bud
Just a little photo play with the different tools in Picasa3 ...its a rainy day here today in North Pole and we are very bored with things in general.......above shot is lower edge crop of Delightfully Frilly
Please remember
**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

Also vist my Flickr page

Can not keep up '

Went on a Walk about yesterday with a really great group of Flickr Friends...went to a local park ..walked a trail and saw birds and reflection ponds,,,a tree that a beaver had chewed on .....
Again I feel like a real dumb bunny ..get everything ready and forget water ...over weight people(ME ) for sure ..should never leave home for a hike with out water....you can survive off your fat but die from lack of water ......

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

The flowers shown tonight are from months and months of taking a photo here and there ..The Calla Lilly was taken in Front of the green house in North Pole,,,It is yellow in full color but I wanted to see it in Black and white .....the Pink flower is a macro of a wild rose that grows in my backyard.... the last flower was on a sale rack in front of LOWES.....hope you enjoy tonight's log..I really must learn to use all my cameras and take more photos..i always carry the cameras but get excited and rushed and forget them....why? i plan everything down to recharging batteries and carrying extra disks but then i forget ...or can not be bothered why? tonight i went searching for tree sap to shoot but could not find any low enough to shot ...Now I know I am going off deep end here searching for sap......
Be Sure and visit my Flickr Site

Hectic Week

Sorry I have been off and on in my post ..It is that time of year..things medical with husband a daughter... garden is finished ..just have to turn the soil and add fish bone ... now to get lights up around the place before the first cold ......No one wants to hang lights for Christmas season once the temps are 30 below ??????????
Here are a few new pictures ..I will try to keep a daily post coming ...still learning new computer ,,,,,,,

#1 Picture*****Clearwater creek, Alaska Stream along the highway between Paxson and Cantwell Alaska ...great fish stream ....

#2 Picture*******Wood carving in Valdez Alaska
#3 Picture*******Info On above Statue...
Been here and there for over two weeks,If not me being sick someone else was..We manage to take a break a few days ago and go across the highway between Paxson and Cantwell Alaska
Tonight I am sharing a few pictures from Valdez Alaska ..that I took when My grandson was here ..Hope you enjoy ..

All Better Now

Been out because of something that happen while I was coughing ...Seems i pulled some muscle ..It felt like fire and a knife sticking in my back,,after a few days of pain pills and lots of drug induced sleep I feel a lot better..I am so mad that I have missed posting but I guess there was a reason to rest ,,,,,
my two versions of the Sunflower
The florets within the sunflower's cluster are arranged in a spiral pattern. Typically each floret is oriented toward the next by approximately the golden angle, 137.5°, producing a pattern of interconnecting spirals where the number of left spirals and the number of right spirals are successive Fibonacci numbers. Typically, there are 34 spirals in one direction and 55 in the other; on a very large sunflower there could be 89 in one direction and 144 in the other This pattern produces the most efficient packing of seeds within the flower head.
**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...
Please visit my Flicker pages
..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

THE VIEW FROM HERE

THE VIEW FROM HEREwas taken on the parks highway in Alaska at the vets parks .....one of my favorite stops along the road way ..I am standing behind the statue shooting the photo ......
A place of rest and memory of those that gave their all.......REMEMBER THOSE THAT GAVE THEIR ALL Some Gave All

**Please don't use this image on websites,
blogs or other media without my explicit permission.
© All rights reserved **

Water Water Everywhere

When time comes for us to again rejoin the infinite stream of water
flowing to and from the great timeless ocean, our little droplet of
soulful water will once again flow with the endless stream.
- William E. Marks, The Holy Order Of Water

Droplet caught after many many many tries to shoot this ...I love shooting water drops it is all in the timing and i am learning I am slow very slow

visit my Flickr pages and see other water droplet photos

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

Sunshine through my petals

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld


Sunshine through my petals was taken at the mission ,,,,it was such a bright day .....was really trying to capture the filtered light that is called angel light ( the light just on the edge of things )...took the bright yellows to black and white to see what would pop
Visit MY Flicker PAGES

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

MARRIOTT ANNEX

Taken at the KJNP radio station on Mission road in North Pole Alaska ....many little cabins in the station area
I love the Alaska people and all the adventures they afford the lens
**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

Yesteryear

This little photo Yesteryear was taken up the road from where I live...What an adventure to get this photo ..the land is fenced off ....they have 8 watch dogs ... a triple fence with and electric fence on top ....so I am standing on road way trying to get photo through the fences ....out comes the owner screaming because I am making the dogs bark...what a fun adventure ...Question to the world "If you don't want people to view your art what is the use?"

All the photos were blurred because.. I was shaking so hard with laughter...so I took it into my little workshop and blurred it more and deepen the color ,,,Happy Friday and weekend to all

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

In search of Angel Light

Took a little trip around the block looking for photo shots ...ended up in a field of grass near the slough ...early morning sunlight over head ...love Alaska wild grass seed head in fall ...they are so beautiful

Hope you enjoy

Little Spy

This is little guy was curled up in the leaf just waiting for me .....

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.
Today was very busy ...putting up veggies from garden ,,,quick triparound block looking for photos to shoot....all in all a great day

FlickrFightr.com - Contest for 8/12/2009

FlickrFightr.com - Contest for 8/12/2009

Shared via AddThis

TeaTime

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

I truly love black and white as that is where I was going when I first got my hands on a 35 mm years and years ago ,,,,,,use to develop in the kitchen after everyone went to bed ...had a darkroom and everything but life happen and it all went by the way side
***************************************************
Very early frost along highway between Paxson and Cantwell Alaska causes these daisy to go to seed long before their time...but i was really wanting to find things to take shots of,plus they did not move ....Hope you enjoy
Please to visit my Flickr Pages

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

August Christmas

August Christmas was taken this week on our day trip around the heart of Alaska ..35 miles in from the Cantwell side of the Denali Highway sitting beside the road ...some brave soul decorated a tree still growing on the tundra with all this beauty..It was a real surprise on this long gravel road ..Hubby and I laughed the whole trip ..just thinking of the person fighting mosquitoes, black fly as they hung the pretty balls and other decorations ..what a joyful thing it was to behold Christmas wishes of someone in August
***Notice they did not destroy the tree by cutting it down ***
**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **

Sunday Eve

*********************************************************************************
**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

**********************************************************************************
Tonight I am just going back into file photos and share a few Macro shots...
This has been a really slow day ..everyone has the blues ....or sleepy time not caring ....the smoke has lifted out and the rain has really greened everything back up ...
these macro were taken a few months back
Hope you enjoy

Please do visit my Flicker page

Home Again (missed yesterday )

We got up yesterday and both hubby and I decided we needed a break..loaded truck ,got gas and off we went ..on the trip we saw moose , eagles , squirrels,hare,and out on
the tundra we saw a decorated tree( another days story )..someone in fun had brought decorations miles and stopped and decorated a tree....we laughed about it for the rest of the trip tomorrow I will post some pics of the tree but for tonight i wanted to share a little fun photo I did with a reflection picture hope you enjoy them...at the end of a long ride in the late even we began to see reflections in the many very still ponds along the road .....we stopped an I took many different shots ..these are fun play by turning the photo on it's side and look at the results ....

Days of the Cats

***********************************************************************************
**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...
***********************************************************************************
First Photo Is Little Miss Two Bits was born out in the wild and came to us at 50 below zero and was captured by us ...she was so close to death even the vet was crying when she moved on the table ...the cold made her lose her ear tips and half her tail ...

Second Photo is Theo the man ..is a kitten that was born of a stray in our house in the closet ..His mommy just appeared at door one morning came in and made herself at home ...

Third Photo is Mr.Tips came walking out of the woods last spring half dead ,,,he had been walking a long time ...he had worn the pads off his toes...he is Little Miss Two Bits buddy

Today has been a little better air wise ..It began raining last night and is still raining at 3:30 this afternoon,,,,,,,,
I am sharing a few of my friends today ...Here is Mr Tips. Little Miss Two Bits and Theo the man ..all three picked us ..they all three come with long tales of woe and excitement ....we could not think of life without them ....

Yellow Skies in Alaska

***********************************************************************************
**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...
************************************************************************************

wow it is already midweek and today I am so blue in spirit ..it does not help that we now have another five spot fires around us ..the sky is so yellow with smoke and everything and I mean everything is covered with ash .....

been up and awake since 4 am ..some idiot in lower 48 thinks everyone is up if they are at work...I HATE telemarketers ..they called three times in a row ..I unhooked phones all over house but by then I was awake....

here are a few photos from weeks back hope you enjoy theses were taken back in early spring when air was clean and skies were blue ......

Feather Fantasy

Found this feather outside in the yard .. loved the way the dew and sun were working together ,,,,not having my camera with me... picked it up and brought it in the house to try to get the same thing later in the day ...well lesson learned ..when one finds a jewel in nature ...go get the camera you paid for and take the picture ..leave nature to nature and do not try to be mother nature ,,,here is my try ...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>note to Self....self always go get the camera...<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

Rain ...Please send rain

**************************************************************************************
**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.
*************************************************************************************
we washed the car,truck and even the mailboxes and still no rain ,,,,,we really need the rain ..grass is dying, garden is burning up ......trees are turning ....please send some rain,,,,, old wives tale ..need rain just wash your car on a sunny day .....oh my can we say we did that ..is anyone paying attention up there in the rain department ...helloooooooooooo....
photos are from a green house visit in the early spring ...even now the water drops are on the edges of the strawberry plant leaves..yes each morning in the green house the plants are covered with drops of dew....I love black and white photos they make one have to think .....
wishing i had a better education

Good Morning Sunday Viewers

Good morning today I read the paper ( not good ) they are so party led ...watch the morning news ..Hummm makes one scared ,,,,, drank few cups of coffee and worked with photos on Flcikr ...wondering why I even try...bought the Glenn Beck book Common Sense ,,,another thought about why ???

Here is today photo pick ..took it a few days back ...hope you all enjoy
Going now to finish bowls in shop and maybe take a break and shoot some good things(photos that is )))):)today such be fun still lots of smoke ...but it has cooled off ...last night when going to Fairbanks the sun was so red from all the smoke and dirt in the air ...reminded me of the words of a song " the sun was red and going down .....

Weather Vane of the North

The weather vane of the cold north
read about this in the following article ...
Fireweed
seagrant.uaf.edu/news/01ASJ/07.13.01fireweed.html

Some here in Alaska weep at the last bloom at the top because they know all to well what comes next ....
view large to see the little bugs......

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

Friday ....YEAH

Friday and the skies are still filled with smoke and heat and heat.....can we please have a little rain????????????
The locksmith came in a record breaking 20 minutes and we had both sets of keys..