Alaska for real.
Ralphie under the tree, my 2 new ornaments added
my light from germany, marks the birth of christ and the start of 12 days of christmas... http://www.crivoice.org/cy12days.html read this whole thing given the findings or lack of i love it.
most precious alaskan gifts. Craftsman Paul and master beader, Lynn!
phoning home....
shane left alone with the camera, this is just one of his photos
here it is amy... christmas morning delivering gifts and hot apple bread!
shane opening gifts
Goodies from Maine! get real get Maine!
candellight service, was so wonderful it is so nice to have someone in town to play the piano!! and this is my candle...notice where the candel plate is made! love syracuse!
my chrismas tree base, nativity one of them, my christmas candle i will burn all day tomarrow, the candel light service candel, and my christmas present from last nights community party!! can you guess what it is?
so if you make it to cold bay for a visit, as with all of our guest you can see everything there is to see here in one afternoon GIVEN ITS A CLEAR DAY so we did just that with our guest, at the begining of the month. out to outermarker, about 8 miles to the north
out to grant point about 10 miles to the north west
and out past baldy to first bridge the the west about the same distance. this is looking towards lenords harbor and mt dutton
and a little fruther south some carribouin the forground.
isaac posted this photo on his face book, this is when he was here last year, and i was just thinking about him... it was a friday night and he and i were just sitting down to pizza, and we could see the smoke from isanoski (thats spelled wrong but i don't have time to look it up sorry) anyway the smoke was illuminated by the setting sun it looked like a neon light really cool, these are the times i wish i had my camera and big lens.. and issac back... miss you couz
about a year and a month later, believe it or not i've missed several much better sunsets but there is the good old volcano steaming just at the horizone to the right of the post office bulilding.
so the south winds i was talking about blow up all sorts of piles of treasures onto the cold bay beach, check out this deformed (healed) starfish, oyster shells, seaglass, a mug..and several pieces of it over a couple of football fileds away, ( i thought that was neat) and always lots of black fine sand...
Pam sent me a wreath from maine, i really didn't think it would survive..... it is on the south side of the house so it is protected from the north winds...
But meraculously it survived, 2 weeks of steady south winds, in the 30mh with gust up to 50mph, not a single item has flown off!!! wow now thats Maine Tuff, thank you Pam. i miss working at the green house so much this time of year, my fingers are thanking me, but my heart misses the smells and the festive feeling. 
King Cove, uptown looking back at down town and the harbor.
yard art, Bering Sea style.
looking out of the bay to the open pacific.
a trip to king cove our neighboring village for the weekend , below the two houses going up the hill is the church you may just be able to make out the steeple. such a pleasure to be able to visit with christian family, we were also able to go to church on sunday and worship and sing which was such a treat! the weather had picked up over night and we woke up to a winter storm, not that the wind hadn't woken me several times in the night. but hoovcraft couldn't run in the high winds, so we got to stay a bit longer and spend more time with the Lanhams.
we walked all over town, being late in the season and the fact that 3 problem bears just the week before had been delt with we were fairly safe. toured the cannery PeterPan they just finished their King Crab Season, these are some crab pots, Shane was glad to see his favorite crab boat that is on the tv show deadliest catch, time bandit, and we found a small fishing vessel in the harbor called the miss molly, on monday we planned to return to cold bay on the hovercraft but, they had maintenance problem due to the ice, so we were able to catch a ride on the crab vessel the Denali, a longer ride but we watched a movie and a half on the large flat screen in galley. that was fun. Mom was a little leary,(and everyone else for that mater) of the climb out of the boat onto the dock, which is a metal ladder covered in ice, and the reach and climb off the edge of the boat is interesting to say the least.
the boat Denali once in cold bay.
their time here is coming to an end so we will have them photo up at typical spots for fun memories... radar sight in the back ground
the bever moon up in the corner, we do have a few trees here, they aren't native, they were planted by the military during world war two time...
saturdays sunrise, a mixed day, sun, and snow showers. Missing home today, hope Chip had a good birthday.
last nights moon rise, i really need to get a camera that will take night photos cause it wasn't that dark out and the moon was amazing, we get very excited here when we can actually see the moon or stars...
these weren't too fresh so we followed them a bit... 
and not too too big.... but a nice size bear....
oh and these ones were fresh!! 
a large herd of caribou just out of town at the end of the run way, started the ride off good, dispite the rain and freezing rain pelting down.... 
no Napa stores here...
last year shane fixed my loud car.... and this year he made his to match!
This was fun to investigate....
we sent this off in the mail today to submit it in an Alaska Celebration by the Fiber Arts Festival.
