Bike on the highway

I just dropped Margie off to babysit for most of the rest of the week, and now I'm at the Carr's gas station in Eagle River. I passed this dude on my way here.

Walker, passed by Two on a motorcycle

As I do just about every day, I am taking a short walk. Walking is a part of the creative process for me. I cannot do my work right if I do not walk. These two just passed me. The image is blurry. There is no way to control shutter speed on the iPhone and I kept walking even as I took it. I don't care. Sooner or later, all of life's images become blurry anyway.

The road back home

Headed home. It was a short trip to Anchorage, but an important one. I am about to post this from the stop light at the corner of the Parks and Palmer-Wasilla highways.

Things seen while sipping coffee from Metro Cafe and the question raised - the answer came at Abby's

Yesterday afternoon, as I drove up Shrock Road sipping a cup of coffee from Metro Cafe, I saw a

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Charlie's raven show; Margie returns to Alaska; Thomas and the boys; biker in the rain; sky warrior remembered

I had to go to town to pick Margie up from the airport. I had not yet had a chance to see Charlie's raven show, so, an hour before Margie's flight was scheduled to arrive, I picked Charlie and Melanie up and we headed over to the Midnight Sun Brewery to take a look and have dinner.

I remain amazed at what Charlie has done with his raven photos. Everybody who reads this blog regularly knows that I photograph ravens when I happen upon them, but Charlie has gone beyond that. Some time ago, he gave himself a mission: to photograph a raven and a stranger every day.

He has done good.

Charlie had a little placard up and in it he gave me the credit for inspiring him to take up a camera and do what he has done. That was nice. He and Melanie should now be driving south, towards Homer, where they are going to join Rex and Cortney on a boat ride to Halibut Cove and then camp out in a cabin for the rest of the week. I hope they catch lots of fish and share with us.

Rex made a kayak and they are taking it, too.

I have written a few times before about how desperate Margie gets for Arizona during the winter, how badly she wants to go back. As always, when I picked her up at the airport, she was happy - no, thrilled - to be back in Alaska.

Of course, winter is over. The sun shines. She would soon greet her grandsons.

Big Thomas was on the go.

The sun does shine - today. But not yesterday, not when I drove to town to see Charlie's ravens and pick Margie up.

Yesterday, it rained.

Dad, top row, third from left, who died on Memorial Day five years ago. May you, your fellow B-24 crew and all the others who fought alongside you for this nation, in this war and others, so many to die in the fight, never be forgotten.