"Think of journaling as baltering with pen in hand." ~ Terry Hershey

Saturday, July 27, 2024

Grassroots '24








     

      Good times and no rain. 

                                     Just sunshine,

          with great friends and music.  



Making Memories

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Words




This morning I'm reading a review on the ballet, Woolf's Works. I'm as far away from going to a ballet as I am from opera, but the reviewer's language was so perfect I could be persuaded. If the ballet is anything as good as the writing, the debate whether words are needed in ballet is moot. The production sounds amazing. 














I guess I should finish the article to see the answer to that.




With a Definition


Thursday, July 11, 2024

My Thinking

 

The filmmaker Steve McQueen











Sometimes (with the emphasis on the effing)

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Alaska II

Skagway

Morning: beer and music
















Then, rock climbing, a rock face! Amazing!!


More amazing? Rappelling!
The step off the ledge: the scariest thing I've ever done!!

















Icy Strait

History













and a hike 
















Hubbard Glacier

The glacier, one mile, nearer and half-mile
And the joke: See the bear? That black dot!



Denali

We're not in Kansas anymore.
86 miles away!


Elk in snow, Denali from the park, we of the 33%
Flowers and elk stalking




From the wild, going home



Ps.   From Northern Exposure, a tv series we watched back in the day that was set in Alaska, "It's not the thing you fling; the fling's the thing," I say, it's not the scenery we saw but the people we saw it with. That's the thing. But of this blog of a lone woman  there are no photos of others, even though those are the best photos I have.

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Alaska Trip: I

Vancouver

Taken from the plane and at the museum














Morning time: my view and our walks













The Cruise

Breakfasts, dinners, lallygagging and drinks













Ketchikan

Musings (Patrick: "I can't see my forehead!") and moss.











Juneau

More moss, bear and whales (none here; all videos)













Best of Show (and I took it!)

View from our deck 11:35 pm