Ok you birders, what kind of bird is this? This is an easy one :) Taken on the Noatak River 9/15/11
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Name That Bird
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Ok you birders, what kind of bird is this? This is an easy one :) Taken on the Noatak River 9/15/11
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Ok you birders, what kind of bird is this? This is an easy one :) Taken on the Noatak River 9/15/11
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Wolfsbane
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This is Monkshood. It is also known as Wolfsbane.
It grows wild in the northwest arctic region of Alaska.
It is very beautiful....and very poisonous.
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This is Monkshood. It is also known as Wolfsbane.
It grows wild in the northwest arctic region of Alaska.
It is very beautiful....and very poisonous.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Sunrise
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We have been having some beautiful sunrises the last couple of days. Please excuse the iPhone photos....it was the only camera I had with me at the time.
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We have been having some beautiful sunrises the last couple of days. Please excuse the iPhone photos....it was the only camera I had with me at the time.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Drying Caribou
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Last winter I had some caribou quarters that I had stored outside in the shop because I did not have room in the freezer. During May when the days were getting warmer and that meat started to thaw out I decided to make panaqtak, aka dried caribou.
I cut the caribou into thin slices, put lots of salt and pepper on it and hung it out on the back porch to dry.
It takes about 3 or 4 days for it to dry enough to be ready, depending on the weather. May is a great time of year to do this because the days are cool and sunny and the flies haven't quite woken up yet so you don't have to worry about them laying eggs on your meat.
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Last winter I had some caribou quarters that I had stored outside in the shop because I did not have room in the freezer. During May when the days were getting warmer and that meat started to thaw out I decided to make panaqtak, aka dried caribou.
I cut the caribou into thin slices, put lots of salt and pepper on it and hung it out on the back porch to dry.
It takes about 3 or 4 days for it to dry enough to be ready, depending on the weather. May is a great time of year to do this because the days are cool and sunny and the flies haven't quite woken up yet so you don't have to worry about them laying eggs on your meat.
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The Error of My Ways
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Forgive me readers for I have sinned. It has been 40 days since my last blog post. I have a hundred excuses and no excuses at the same time. It is what it is. I received a comment on a post the other day that said...
Anonymous said...
so is the blog officially dead?
September 9, 2011 12:01 AM
I have mixed feelings on this comment. Part of me sees it as a valid question, part of me is aggravated by it, and part of me is hurt by it. Over the years that I have done this blog I have put thousands of hours into it. Thousands of FREE hours...well free for my readers. It definitely wasn't free for me. I pay for time, gas, camera equipment, photo hosting etc.
I'm not sure that a lot of people, except other photo bloggers who post regularly and have a lot of readers, understand what that is like. I got to the point where I was stressed out if I did not post every day because I knew that hundreds of people came to this blog everyday to read a new post. I was probably spending roughly three hours a day doing something related to this blog...taking photos, editing photos, writing posts, etc. That's while also working eight or more hours a day, doing subsistence activities, parenting, housework, volunteering etc. That's A LOT of work. It's not surprising that I burnt out. I even burnt out on reading blogs.
Do I miss blogging? Sure, there are times when I miss posting every day...mostly because I loved reading comments and interacting with people who read the blog.
So is this blog officially dead? It ain't over til the fat lady sings and I don't hear any singing. When you come to this URL and you find nothing there then you will know it is dead. Until then it will move along at it's own varied pace, here and there, now and then, in fits and starts, as my time allows. That's all I can promise.
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Forgive me readers for I have sinned. It has been 40 days since my last blog post. I have a hundred excuses and no excuses at the same time. It is what it is. I received a comment on a post the other day that said...
Anonymous said...
so is the blog officially dead?
September 9, 2011 12:01 AM
I have mixed feelings on this comment. Part of me sees it as a valid question, part of me is aggravated by it, and part of me is hurt by it. Over the years that I have done this blog I have put thousands of hours into it. Thousands of FREE hours...well free for my readers. It definitely wasn't free for me. I pay for time, gas, camera equipment, photo hosting etc.
I'm not sure that a lot of people, except other photo bloggers who post regularly and have a lot of readers, understand what that is like. I got to the point where I was stressed out if I did not post every day because I knew that hundreds of people came to this blog everyday to read a new post. I was probably spending roughly three hours a day doing something related to this blog...taking photos, editing photos, writing posts, etc. That's while also working eight or more hours a day, doing subsistence activities, parenting, housework, volunteering etc. That's A LOT of work. It's not surprising that I burnt out. I even burnt out on reading blogs.
Do I miss blogging? Sure, there are times when I miss posting every day...mostly because I loved reading comments and interacting with people who read the blog.
So is this blog officially dead? It ain't over til the fat lady sings and I don't hear any singing. When you come to this URL and you find nothing there then you will know it is dead. Until then it will move along at it's own varied pace, here and there, now and then, in fits and starts, as my time allows. That's all I can promise.
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Friday, August 5, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
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We are in New Hampshire visiting my family until the 16th. This is the most free time I have had in a long time. Here's some more fishing pics....
In Kotzebue we fish for chum (Keta) salmon with set net.
These photos were taken in Sisualik, about 12 miles north of Kotzebue.
There are about 290 fish in the boat in this photo.
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We are in New Hampshire visiting my family until the 16th. This is the most free time I have had in a long time. Here's some more fishing pics....
In Kotzebue we fish for chum (Keta) salmon with set net.
These photos were taken in Sisualik, about 12 miles north of Kotzebue.
There are about 290 fish in the boat in this photo.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Vic and I spent a couple weeks commercial fishing. I would work from 9am to 3pm at my regular job, go home and take a two hour nap, get up and get ready and then fish from 8pm to 2am or 4 am depending on the period, go home and get a couple hours sleep and do it all over again. It was an exhausting two weeks. Here are some photos....
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