While walking Hamilton Loop in Craig, Alaska the other day, I saw an old friend. Here it is in the background: St. John or San Juan Batista Island, so named in the 1700’s by the first Spanish explorers to the area. And here’s another friend, known to science as Port Bagial, but known to me […]
Tag: southeast alaska
Golf, Southeast Alaska style
These two pictures represent Craig, Alaska’s answer to a driving range. We are crammed onto two tiny islands joined by man-made causeways (see the picture in my right-hand widget column), and there is no flat ground anywhere to be had. There was a time when I laughed at golf, declaring smugly that it couldn’t possibly […]
A-gardening we will go
Recently I started growing lettuce in window boxes. Now, of course I could put together a garden box or a greenhouse, or both, and grow my lettuce that way. But here’s the thing. I am too lazy to go outside to pick my lettuce. Actually, I am trying to set things up so that I […]
The weather gods have a sense of humor
Well, sometimes it does snow in Southeast Alaska, despite what I have been saying these many years. I went out this morning to dig out my mother-in-law’s van, scraping wet-cement-style snow, until my nephew, as kind as he is strong, came from down the street to help. I was scraping as loudly as possible, so […]
Close encounters of the curious kind
I’m remembering that one time, in my little cabin in Kake, when I heard something on the porch. I looked out the window and found myself nose to nose with a fellow mammal. This also makes me think of a time while I was at school. One of the kids, Timmy*, came galloping down the […]
I live in Alaska but it isn’t cold.
I spent my first ten Alaska years in Anchorage where we got some A-for-effort winters, but even there the Gulf Stream is a tempering influence. My only visit to Fairbanks was at high noon, so to speak, when the flowers were just everywhere and the sun hardly went below the horizon. So the odds were […]