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The Longest Day

We made it to Alaska. Finally. We left the house this morning at about 6:00 AM — Eric was kind enough to take us to the airport — and arrived here in Sitka at about 6:45 PM. Remember, Alaska time is four hours behind Maryland time. We flew from Washington’s Reagan National Airport to California’s LAX. We switched planes there and flew to Seattle. We switched planes again and flew to Sitka with a brief stop in Ketchikan.

We didn’t have time for a real meal all day long. So as soon as we checked in to the hotel, we maintained a vacation tradition of ours and found a Mexican restaurant so Mike could try the fajitas. They were yummy.

Anyway… I am pooped. The next post will be more exciting. To see the pictures, click on the image below. NOTE: All of the aerial shots are from the window of an airplane, so they are not great photos, but they will give you an idea of what it looks like here.

Alaska Day 1
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A Walk in the Woods

RAIN has its pluses and minuses. The best thing about Spring rain is that it makes everything really green. I haven’t checked the record books, but this is definitely the wettest, coolest Spring I can remember. It seems like it rains every day.


But that really is okay, because everything is amazingly green. The picture shown above was taken this past weekend at our West Virginia house. This is a spot I don’t usually visit. It really isn’t our property, but it is a path of sorts (an old logging road) that leads to our property from Poland Hollow Road. Finding the green grass and scattering of wildflowers was a nice surprise.

That is one of the reasons I like wandering through the woods with my camera; I never know what I might find. And it really is very peaceful. I can certainly think of worse ways to spend a morning or afternoon!

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flickr or picasa?

For those of you who are not Web geeks like me, flickr and picasa are photo sharing Web sites. I actually have photos at both, but have decided that picasa is better. Mainly because it has more storage space–1 GB compared to flickr’s 100 mb.

So, since I take lots of pictures and wanna share them with the world, I am sticking with picasa.

In the future, after this post is long gone from the main Blog window, you can click on the “fave critter pictures” slideshow to the right to get there.

This is how I’ll be sharing our Alaska photos. I plan to upload some while we are away as long as we are in a location with Internet access, that is.

That’s it for now. I have to get to work. Happy Friday!