Aged Beauty
My first photo for this week is of my beloved dog, Nikishkka's Frosty Feet. She is long gone now, but not forgotten. In 2001 when I moved to Alaska from Wisconsin she went with me. She is buried there, underneath some Black Spruce tree's. If you look off to the distance on a clear day you can see Denali (Mt. McKinley). She was 15. I miss her every day.
My next photo is from last June. A friend and I flew up to Alaska for 2 weeks. We did a remote 12 mile hike across Kachemak Bay to Greywingk Glacier. Aged Beauty? Can't get much older than a glacier...lovely blogger won't let me enlarge the photo so please click it.
We stopped and had a lite snack on the shores of Greywingk and while we were sitting there I spotted this cool, cool rock. If you look with an open mind you will see it has a Salmon on it! I was so excited to find it. Salmon, as they get old and are spawning, their nose hooks, and the grey spots are where the eyes would be. I can see it very plainly but then I've seen many different ways artists depict Salmon and this just jumped right out at me. I packed it out in my backpack and brought it home with me. I weighed it, it was 9 pounds and I didn't really need all that extra weight in my pack but there was no way I was going to leave it. I love this rock, it now rests on my fireplace mantle.
Thanks for stopping by and have a good week.
