The Chena River

On Sunday the 12 October , we woke up to more snow a good 3 inches in my front yard. the winter seems to stretch in from of us like long rail road tracks. I went for a drive down the river again.


just to photograph the ice forming. I did something i have never done before , something i have said to my self that I would never do. drum roll please......

Photograph ducks, Mallards to be exact. But they were just making themselves at home. having a good time. and of course came toward me as fast as they could expecting something.

The ice is forming rather well down the river. whats covered in snow is a sand bar, a very shallow river is the Chena. The temp the last few days has not been warm it s been down to 10, F ( that's -12 c ) it was 123 today, at least the sun was out.

Freeze Up aproaches

the river veiw from work. oct 9 , snow on the ground again, sunny day and the river still open , small amunt s of ice can be seen , just not with my camera. should have gone outside and got better photos. some of the last stuff nearly melted. we had a couple of nice days , everybody is running arround putting winter tires on the cars.

Snow, a crappy 4 letter word

September 30 and there out the window lies that crappy stuff, it s early enough it s only september, it wont stay....... well

The Ocean

I changed my screan saver today , i just felt like change. I choose a photo that refects what i miss , living in Alaska, the ocean. you know flat horisen , with just a little curve of the earths circle. I need to be able to view this .. hell every day would work.

i miss the Ocean.

the Rest of the photos, and car stuff

http://picasaweb.google.com/kiwijanet/Janet#

Practicing some skills for when I am away overseas and have limited computer access. see what you think
Today I am the proud new owner of some blizaks tires, 4 of them and $460 poorer, i know i should stop complaining. but complaining is fun. these are supposed to be supper tyres for driving in the snow / ice. my Friend and those that say they are good tyres but we shall see, its a long winter.
I also got to change my head lite bulb , i lost the low beam last week. you know on the side where you have to take the battery out to get to the head lite. My battery is kinda old, and it took some loosening, the spray stuff for loosening nuts is really good, got the battery out , got the lite bub back in and in the right place without touching the bulb, and everything back together all in 40 minutes flat. I'm rather proud of my self. I even had the right size ratchet in my little tool kit this helped.
yes there is still snow 0n the ground, it hasn't melted.

Janet

More photos

Photo day

Tony wanted to take some photos and i need to more decent recent ones. so for a couple of hours this morning i got to play. , the first photo session i ever ever had. if you don't count the baby ones.

it was a whole bunch of fun , the better part of 300 photos later we pulled about 50 for my preview. and you get some of them