Well over a thousand miles separates Barrow from Juneau. It’s enough to make the place as different from Barrow as either place would be from much of the lower 48. I imagine many of my friends and family must themselves imagine the sights Moni and I have been enjoying here this last few days are common experiences. But we don’t have eagles in Barrow, nor trees or mountains. We don’t have glaciers either, unless you count the whole ocean as a glacier for part of the year. (Jokes aside, I’m pretty sure that’s not how glaciers work.) Southeast Alaska is a truly beautiful place. It’s one we don’t often get to enjoy.

Still…

Travel happens!

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This guy was a little ways off, which is why Moni and I weren’t immediately sure what we were looking at. I was busy snapping stills of this eagle with as much zoom as I could. Moni scooped me with a vid.

…the persistence of seagulls pays off.

A needlessly hurried spin around Mendenhall Lake.

…and a short photo gallery (click to embiggen):

Chilkat Weaving demo at the Alaska Native Studies Conference

Form Line Art on a Utility Box

Dancing at the Folk Music Festival

Mendenhall+

Mendenhall Glacier

Blues

Downtown Juneau

Sunset at the Anchorage Airport

Nugget Falls

Denizens of the University of Alaska, Southeast

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay

Juneau

A Bit of Street Art

Shore of Auke Lake

Mountains Overlooking Mendenhall Lake

The Visitor Center and a small Pond at Mendenhall Lake

Couple friends walking under a rainbow

Mendenhall Lake

Mendenhall Lake in the evening

This was Auke Bay as seen from the University of Alaska, Southeast (taken through a chain link fence)