Schadenfreude

Mizzou was admittedly overrated this year from the start. But when KU fans wear these kind of outfits, then cry when they lose to a team that didn't actually get selected for the tourney? Forget it Jack, it's Schadenfreude.

Tugg Speedman

First cell phone camera post from my office. But watching a tugboat steam out through the waters of Cook Inlet, which otherwise would appear to be a snow field a couple months ago, was just too cool. I wonder if I could walk to Russia from here?

I See A Bad Moon Settin'

I'm digging through the scrapbook. This is December 23, around 10:30 in the morning, two days after Winter Solstice. The pale colors of sunrise directly behind the camera bathe Sleeping Lady (aka Mt. Susitna), as the moon slowly sets.

Proof Through The Night

Thought I'd share this - I drive by it every day on the way to work. I finally stopped to get a close up look. We have a park the length of 9th Ave downtown, and this is part of a memorial for Alaskans who have given their lives in service to Country. Dedicated in 1959 by the good people of Ketchikan, the original 139 foot Sitka Spruce flagpole is no more, now replaced with this 110 Sitka Spruce beauty.

It is inscribed "Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one Country, one Constitution, one Destiny." Daniel Webster 1837.

'Rod Bless America

Iditarod Time!


You know it's a big event when the (now duly elected) Governor comes out. You may have heard he originally became Governor when the last one quit - but maybe that didn't make news outside these parts...


Look at the guy in the picture to the left of the Guv in the fur hat, then the guy in the background in the fur hat. Doppelganger?

Anyway, the dogs were out in full force. Tie-dye dogs....


Sleepy Irish Dogs.....(he really was falling asleep on his feet)


Of course what would Irish Dogs be without a kilt-wearing musher? They even had bagpipers during the start!


Outside of Red Square I don't think there's a greater concentration of men in fur hats anywhere in the world than at Iditarod. I snapped a picture of this particular guy, but there are fur hats on dudes EVERYWHERE each year. There was even a guy in a black bear fur hat, which was most definitely homemade.


Some of the women have a different approach....


Some folks have nothing better to do but complain about the Iditarod. I of course beg to differ. But seriously....


PETA, where are you on this one? If I was a dog I'd rather risk my bacon 1000 times on the trail than endure this!

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