The wild Southeast gales are rattling the house and mountain ash leaves swirl past the windows like snow. I rue the passing of the last fall leaves, hanging by one fiery thread before the storm.I have loved the brilliant color lighting up a darkening landscape, as the days grow shorter and colder.
Autumn [...]
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When the leaves come falling down..
Posted in Fall, Life, community, radio on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When October Goes..
Posted in Fall, Grief, Life, Uncategorized on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I walked across a fresco of fall colors on my way home this afternoon. I am sad to see the fiery maple leaves plastered across the ground already, leaving skeletal branches to point at the darkening sky. The snow level has started moving down the Coast Mountains, as the line between fall and winter starts [...]
September Song
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I welcome Autumn this week, with all its flavors, like the taste of chanterelle mushrooms and Boletes, tart muskeg cranberries and smoked fish. When I ride my bike to work now, the air smells like woodsmoke and wet cedar. Gusty winds and rain alternate with molten low angle light. The nasturtiums are still trailing [...]
Git along, Little Joklhlaup!
Posted in boating, glaciers on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I grew up in New England, on an island carved by the last Ice Age. The shores and hills I loved so well were shaped 10,000 years ago and I often tried to imagine the forces that formed the landscape.
Then when I moved to Alaska, and discovered glaciers, I was hooked by the living [...]
At the Corner of Grateful and Amazed
Posted in Camp island, Fall, Life, glaciers on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Autumn blew in on the back of a Southeast storm. Now the geese honk across the tide flats at Camp Island and scarlet swords of curly dock have taken the place of Indian Paintbrush and lupine.
Scott and I took advantage of the huge tide this weekend to move a log off the beach. It [...]
Camp Island Journal For July 16th:
Posted in Uncategorized on July 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The first rain in weeks is dripping through the spruce trees. I can imagine all the plants singing the “Hallelujah Chorus” this morning, These weeks of hot, sunny weather have left the forest parched and moss crumbles underfoot.
Scott and I run the skiff up into LeConte Bay to check the shrimp pots.Climbing rocks to [...]
Walden at 57 degrees north latitude
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Camp Island Sojourn, July 12th, 2009
I have been trying to read “Walden” this week. It seemed like the perfect book to bring to the island. Like Thoreau, I have taken to the woods to live at some distance from my community. I am measuring my days against the rhythms of the natural world, instead [...]
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass, Sarah
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
July 3rd, 2009
The big news of the weekend was Sarah Palin’s resignation. We were shocked. Watching her naked ambition and lust for political power last fall never prepared us for this.
There have been all kinds of explanations and guessing and all that really matters is that in a few weeks she is done. Her [...]
O Say Can You See?
Posted in Camp island, politics, summer on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blog for July 1st, 2009
The Fourth of July Weekend is approaching. I plan to avoid the noise and the smoke and the crowds and head down to Camp Island. That is not to say I will not be celebrating. How could I miss the chance to celebrate Independence Day and the ideals of our Constitution?
I [...]
Sittin’ on the dock of the Bay
Posted in Life, Night Hours, boating, chartering, summer on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blog for June 25th, 2009
Sitting in the harbor on the Heron, I am staring out of the pilothouse windows at the boats moving back and forth between the docks. Summer is in high gear. The seiners are in town between salmon openings, and I am listening to the scream of hydraulics and the deep roar [...]
