Look at what we have been collecting in our backyard!
This is the second pound of raspberries we’ve collected so far, and only from the smallest of bushes in a sea of larger ones.
If only we had Smell-o-Net on the interwebs, these berries smell fantastic! Who wants raspberry jelly for ChristmaChannuKwanzaYule?
Yes, that Jewel. She’s from Homer, and she’s coming to play a benefit concert for the Artists in the Schools program. I’m going to photograph the concert, and while setting up the media pass, I was given the opportunity to setup a phone interview. So I took it.
The interview will be published in next week’s paper.
I was a bit nervous before she called, this being my first journalistic interview and all, and her being famous and all. While waiting, I kept myself busy by working on the new website. One minute I was working on php code, the next I was talking to a pop/dance/country music star.
In the short 20 minutes I had to talk to Jewel, she was very friendly and easy to converse with. I recorded the conversation, so maybe we’ll post it, or pieces of it, to the Trib site.
And now back to your regularly scheduled pictures of Alaska.
I have to admit, I’m not really looking forward to the approaching winter months. The darkness and piles of snow are a little less exotic after experiencing it once already.
Last winter was rough, what with the short daylight hours and hard work out in the dog yard, so it will be interesting to see what this winter will be like. We will definitely be investing in some happy lights, plus I have a paying job, and the drive into town won’t (hopefully) be so treacherous, so maybe this winter won’t be so bad.
Having a scenic surrounding is a timesink. How often is too often for stopping to take a picture of something pretty and/or cool? I stop a lot less than I’d like, but enough to warrant some extra budgeting on any ETA I give out.
Today continues the string of overcast, rainy days that will apparently extend into the future indefinitely. At least ocean, mountains, glacier and clouds make for some dynamic scenes! I saw this in my rearview mirror on the way home from work, and I had to stop.
I found, while exercising last night, that my right knee is not well. When doing squats, it sounds more or less like pulling apart a wad of plastic wrap under my kneecap. It’s a sound I’ve never heard a body part make before. I stopped doing squats.
The fireweed has started to bloom en masse, which is apparently depressing a lot of my fellow Alaskans. It seems the fireweed bloom signifies the imminent end of summer. At least, I think so. When I tried to get the Tribune to put one of these pictures in the paper, all I got was “Aw, we don’t want to depress anyone with fireweed yet…” and some mumblings about summer ending soon.
Who knew beautiful, fuchsia-colored flowers brought pain?
In other news, I’ve updated the photoblog to post a different picture everyday through the end of the month. Most of them have been seen here before, but I’m building up my stock of available photos so you can order all those prints you’ve been wanting!
