On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
It’s been a busy day, with phone calls for a call series I’ve been participating, an informal conversation with Coast Alaska reporters and scientists (which I seemed to have qualified as in this case), and finally a talk about hydropower generation and the models used to help anticipate an prepare for situations where hydro capacity … Read more
Horned Grebes are not too hard to see in Sitka during the fall, but this is so far the best picture I’ve managed to get of one. They tend to be more frequent out Halibut Point Road (this one was off the SeaMart parking lot) and I don’t get out that way too often.
South Guibert Islet (downloaded from Alaska ShoreZone) Today someone on Facebook shared a link to the NOAA ShoreZone Press Release announcing all of Southeast Alaska had been imaged for the ShoreZone project. This project had the goal of flying over much of the coastline in Alaska, including all of Southeast, at extreme low tides and … Read more
This fall and early winter it has seemed like few days on the water very nice, and as a result I’ve been thinking that this year’s weather/sea state has been worse than last year’s which, for some reason, I remember as being reasonably mellow. After commenting on this, I decided to look up the buoy … Read more
Several snow showers moved through today separated by brief clouds breaks with some sun. It was interesting to watch the snow swirl around as the wind blew it over/off the house in various directions. Didn’t really get outside much to speak of today, though I did step out to enjoy one of the cloud breaks … Read more
Male Anna’s Hummingbird coming to feeder It was another wet day, though less breezy than yesterday. This afternoon just after 3, I noticed the juncos gathering in the branches of the trees east of the house. Several times this winter I have noticed juncos moving through those trees around this time (relative to sunset, rather … Read more