Some recent AK photo's

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by ruffcutt

Oh yes.

Is that what I think it is? Could it be? A rare sighting of the ever-elusive... SKY?

[ruffcutt]

Well Xa'at, I believe so.

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by ruffcutt

Well Xa'at, I believe so.

My, you are indeed a lucky photographer!

[ruffcutt]

Originally Posted by Xa'at

My, you are indeed a lucky photographer!

Yes indeed, it's snapshots like this that make trying to bring my camera with me every where I go so worth it.

I'd also like to thanks God, and my family for helping to make this possible.

[rotorhead]

Is it true that every time the clouds accidentally clear for a few moments over Juneau, young children run indoors screaming about that "burning light in the sky"? My guess is that they've never seen it before...

Anyone seen these guys around your house yet? We visited some folks up at the end of Lutak Inlet and there must have been forty or fifty of them hanging around, it sounded like a hornets nest at times.




I'm wondering how the heck they even made it up here, I haven't seen flower one open around here yet.

[Barkingowl]

Great Hummer pics!

[Rance]

MAn we used to get humming birds out on Kuiu Island all the time. The first few scared the heck out of me because they looked and sounded like giant bumble bees when they flew by. It's been years since I've seen one. Great shots.

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by rotorhead

Is it true that every time the clouds accidentally clear for a few moments over Juneau, young children run indoors screaming about that "burning light in the sky"? My guess is that they've never seen it before...

Well, there's a story in my family that we went on vacation a long time ago somewhere down south... San Diego maybe, and my cousin who was just a baby at the time said, "momma, what is that?" and pointed to the sun. Now, I was pretty young myself and I don't remember it, but everyone seems to love telling the story so it must be true!

[rotorhead]

They used to joke about that when I was stationed in Germany too, how kids would go on vacation to the states and cry when they finally saw that thing up there behind the clouds.

"mommy, it burns, it burns!"

An amusing aside....today the preschool kids took a fieldtrip to the local greenhouse. The smell inside was like going to Hawaii (perhaps better, no volcanic "vog" here!). We weren't there two minutes when a hummer went zipping in through a vent, threaded the maze of support strut from flower to flower, and zipped right back out through an open door. Those things must have the reflexes of an over-caffinated ferret, I was half expecting to hear a "thunk" and find it embedded in a roof beam but it breezed right through like it was nothing.

[ASpilot2be]

Originally Posted by rotorhead

Is it true that every time the clouds accidentally clear for a few moments over Juneau, young children run indoors screaming about that "burning light in the sky"? My guess is that they've never seen it before...

Anyone seen these guys around your house yet? We visited some folks up at the end of Lutak Inlet and there must have been forty or fifty of them hanging around, it sounded like a hornets nest at times.




I'm wondering how the heck they even made it up here, I haven't seen flower one open around here yet.

Awesome pictures

I think one almost hit me today. I saw a blur, and heard something whizz by