Tag: Alaska
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Alaska 2007 – Ice Climbing
The way up is almost perpendicular to the frozen ground. The glacier looms over me like a white predator, silent, and patiently waiting for a victim to wander into its steel jaws. Snow anchors are set at the top of the glacier. I am roped in with my harness, helmet on, goggles, and an ice…
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Alaska 2007 – Ice Climbing
The way up is almost perpendicular to the frozen ground. The glacier looms over me like a white predator, silent, and patiently waiting for a victim to wander into its steel jaws. Snow anchors are set at the top of the glacier. I am roped in with my harness, helmet on, goggles, and an ice…
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Reading and writing
To help with my writing funk, I’ve been reading a lot more than usual. And that advice is always given to writers: read more. Read different genres or subjects than what you are writing about. This helps to expand your mental awareness and give a larger pool of ideas and images to the mind and…
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Poem – Ghosts of Adak
An island named Adak served the military, a distant outpost, aging, succumbing to the wind and the sea. Inhabited by people clinging to their past or starting over they share the land with Ghosts of Adak. Photo and information below from: http://a-great-small-big-world.blogspot.com/2011/08/cities-between-175-west-175-east.html Adak is the westernmost municipality in the United States and the southernmost city in…
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Back to writing
A lot in the world is going on, and many events or significant milestones have passed. Ideas and snippets pass through my mind like water, and it is difficult to choose which to fish out and write about. What kind of tone should I take, and what, at the end of the day, do I…
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Nature
“We speak of nature, of the natural world, as if that were something distinct from ourselves and the social world we appear to have made, seldom noticing that we are in nature and never out of it…” – John Haines, “Fables and Distances”
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Photography update
New galleries have been added to www.williamricciphotography.com
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Alaska – Photos of Moose
The following are all of the moose photos that I took in Alaska, near Fairbanks.
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Alaskan Blue should be a new Crayola color. I would buy that.
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Poem – Spirit
Staring at light green painted walls adorned with maps of Alaska nostalgia creeps within my fingertips and like exposed light free of dust, pure it permeates any wall I have erected and hits my heart. I see the places I have not seen. I taste the earth I have not touched. I breath the air…
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Alaska Random Photos
Here is a selection of random photos form the 7/4/12 to 7/9/12 trip to Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Post Traveling Thoughts
Now that I am settled back at home and my customary headache from traveling and flying has subsided, I have a few thoughts and observations. This was my third trip to Alaska, and the first with Patricia. My first two were with guided services (Exposure Alaska, and Alaska Mountain Guides) and involved hiking, kayaking, glacier…
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Alaska, Day 5
The day started with breakfast at the Cookie Jar. Amped up with enough coffee, we spent the rest of the day moose hunting along the Chena Hot Springs road, starting near Fairbanks and winding its way east for 55 or so miles. Along the way, we hiked a couple of trails, one to the top…
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Alaska, Day 4 – Wildlife
We have been fortunate regarding the weather and wild life here in Alaska. Quite honestly, this has been the best trip I have taken here. We made it to Denali National Park yesterday and had an awesome hike along and above the Tenana River. Moose and marmots are not shy creatures, and do not care…
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Alaska, Day 4 – Fireweed
Alaskan Fireweed is a beautiful pink and purplish color. It also makes for a delicious homemade jelly.