Sunsets in Juneau – wow! A rare experience!
We Alaskans know we gotta catch a sunset while we can!
Sunset Close-up
The same sunset!? LIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING!?
Fly with it while we can!
Medicinal Alaskan Native & Domestic Plants
Devil's Club has many healing properties
A forest of Devil's Club can stand 10 to 12 feet high!
Yarrow
Plantain
Many of these plants are used for medicinal purposes. There are a few folks in Alaska who make healing tinctures, balms and salves. Visit my accupuncture friend, Jan Parrish’s website: www.alaskanabotanicals.com for more information on the healing properties of these plants – she has products that could help make your healing adventure a bit smoother – check out the site!
Mint
Berry Benefits: Enjoying Natural Surroundings While Berry-Picking
A big salmon berry on a big hand! - last of the crop is still out for picking' - pick 'em while you can!
We have a bumper crop of berries this Summer here in Juneau! The first of the berries to ripen at the end of June are the Salmonberry, of course, yet they are still around for the harvest, along with the raspberries, blueberries and huckleberries!
Summer is here on Salmonberry Land!
A fine sight to see a pair of Chilkat boots in a nagoon-berry patch!
Berry-picking Amongst the Sitka (Rugosa) Rose and Fireweed
Occasionally, there's a fellow berry-lover in the raspberry patch: a young porcupine
Appreciating the Beauty of Juneau, Alaska
I’ve temporarily moved back to my hometown of Juneau, Alaska. When I lived here year-round until 18 years ago, from the time began a family in 1977 until the time I moved away in 1993, I rarely hiked or beach-combed. I was too busy running self-employed businesses in art, landscaping and sign-painting, while raising a family. I’m still busy with running a business, but I don’t have a family to raise full-time. So, I’ve actually made time to go on walks in our beautiful surroundings. Juneau is one of the most beautiful Capital cities in America – even when it rains! From time to time, I will post photographs of various walks in our city. Here are a few photographs of our Mendenhall Glacier taken at the end of July during our drizzling rain around 10pm:
Mendenhall Glacier at 10pm in July, 2010
Mendenhall Glacier's Icebergs
For the entire month of July, we hadn’t any sunshine; the temperature remained pretty steady between 52 – 55 degrees. Yet, we still had enough warmth for the Mendenhall to calve off and create icebergs like I hadn’t ever experienced before. They say the Mendenhall is receeding 120 feet per year; maybe this is that time of year – and as I mentioned earlier, I hadn’t gone out and enjoyed our surroundings for a number of years until recently, so how would I know if this is the largest number of icebergs ever?
Mendenhall Glacier on a Sunny Day(!) taken from 10-mile North Douglas Hwy