Tag: beauty

Scenes from Alaska 6

October 8, 2012 | No comments yet

The weather was not cooperative in Juneau, lots of rain and clouds. But what’s new! Liquid sunshine they call it up here. On to Icy Strait Point… Icy Strait Point Meeting Center Learned more about muskeg, an acidic water-saturated patch of forest

Scenes from Alaska 5

October 5, 2012 | 1 comment

Alaska is beautiful everywhere we went. There are so many stunning hills and mountains, trees, greenery, waterfalls and glaciers to see. Also lots of clouds, fog and mist from all the precipitation, so picture taking was not always easy! But we captured a

Scenes from Alaska 4

October 4, 2012 | 1 comment

More pictures from our trip up the Tracy Arm… The ship’s path was a slow deliberate journey by a captain on the constant alert to keep his ship safe from icebergs and other underwater dangers. Tracy Arm waterfall Aw, a

Scenes from Alaska 3

October 3, 2012 | 2 comments

I’ve never seen a glacier promenading into the ocean before from the deck of a ship. Many glaciers are on our trip’s itinerary, but Tracy Arm is the first. Headed up the Tracy Arm fjord… Tracy Arm mountain   Tracy

Last pictures of Australia

March 22, 2012 | 7 comments

I finished lecturing a week ago, last Friday evening, in Melbourne, and Kathy and I hopped on a plane Saturday morning and spent the weekend in Sydney before flying home Monday morning.     We attended First Church of Christ,