Life in Alaska — A View From Homer

I am really bummed I didn't have my digital camera with me the other day when I was out on the Homer Spit. Two bald eagles were sitting...

Mail generally seems to take 3-5 days to get to or from Alaska (or at least to us, in Fritz Creek). Packages sent by USPS standard shipping...

Something we have noticed is that just about every school in Alaska seems to have an ice skating rink, and a large number of them have swimm...

This picture was taken Dec. 5 at noon from the Homer Spit. Obviously, the sun doesn't get very far off the horizon! At 3:00 the sun wa...

We have done many things up here that we would never have dreamed of doing in Michigan. I'm not sure why that is....except that life is ...

(I am adding this picture of the canyon quite a few months later. The picture of the house across it is the neighbor with the gun, who took...

The first big snowfall has brought out an unsurpassed beauty beyond what I could have imagined. Even the unsentimental, pragmatic Doug oooh...