Open Thread – Surveying the Kingdom
This time of year when it’s light in the morning, I love to take my first sip of coffee looking out the window at the weather and the view, and just enjoying it for a moment before the business of the day begins. I was doing just that the other morning, and suddenly I noticed… I wasn’t alone. Someone was, literally, ahead of me. Brian the moose after apparently dozing on the lawn near one of the last patches of snow, took a few moments upon waking to enjoy the same view and lazily survey his kingdom in the morning…
Open Thread – The Melt
Ah, breakup. No, it’s not the sad demise of a relationship, unless you consider it the dissolution of snow, dirt, ice, sand, salt and all the other accumulated byproducts of winter. It’s Alaska’s fifth season and usually lasts from some time in March to some time in early May when the temperatures start to crest the freezing mark and all the white stuff begins to melt, revealing the accumulated treasures beneath. A short hike today revealed these found objects by the roadside – a bible and a buck knife. Welcome to Alaska.
Open Thread: LKB’s Easter Fare
I hope all of you had a wonderful Easter, Passover or whatever spring holiday you celebrate! We had a wonderful family Easter Sunday dinner (“dinner” in the Mid-western sense of the word…1:00 pm) and I took a few photographs to share with you all: This is my version of a caprese salad that I made for the dinner. It’s sliced fresh Mozzarella, tomatoes and Basil leaves in Balsamic vinegarette on a bed of spinach and spring greens surrounded by fresh asparagus and different varieties of olives. Here’s a yummy fruit salad made by my sis-in-law. Here’s my plate of food,…
Open Thread – Happy Easter
Happy Easter, Mudflatters! Thought you’d all enjoy Brian the Moose bedecked in all his Easter finery. One man’s Peep is another moose’s Easter bonnet. May your day be full of lovely springtime traditions, whatever they may be.
Gate Raped
By Shannyn Moore We’re Alaskans. We fly. I don’t like it, but with 80 percent of our communities off the road system, flying is a necessary part of our lives. Last month, Rep. Sharon Cissna, a survivor of both physical abuse and breast cancer, refused an invasive TSA pat-down at SeaTac. Instead of flying, she returned to Juneau by ferry. I reported her story on my radio show with a lump in my throat. She’s an Alaska hero. I am not. I recently returned from Washington, D.C., where I’d celebrated Bristol Bay salmon, met Erin Brockovich, attended a reception with…
Open Thread – Clouds
Clouds from the topside. I snapped this picture out of a plane window trying to amuse myself as we flew over Montana. Not that the location for this particular shot is particularly significant, but somehow Big Sky Country seemed to work out from either side of the clouds. The photo doesn’t really do it justice but the clouds had a strange appearance that was both cottony and almost like lizard skin, and tightly woven so it looked like the plane might land on the clouds and skim off to bounce back up. And the sky? Blue, blue, blue.
Open Thread – Thursdays in the Mud!
Well it’s been a few Thursdays missing from my usual appearance on The Shannyn Moore Show for the segment “Thursdays in the Mud,” but today I’ll be back from 1pm-2pm Alaska time! You can hear Shannyn every day from 11-2pm Alaska time on KOAN 1020am in Anchorage, or on 95.5fm in Anchorage, and 1330am in Juneau. If you’re not in those areas, tune in for live streaming at 1020koan.com
Open Thread – Turn Again
~Beluga Point, Cook Inlet, Alaska It’s an interesting day in Alaska history for one of our favorite bodies of water here in the 49th State. On April 12, 1794 Captain George Vancouver and his ships entered Cook Inlet and discovered it was not a river. I know. You are thinking to yourself, “But April 12th was yesterday.” And technically, you are right. BUT, I am actually sitting here typing this way back in yesterday your time. So for me it’s actually April 12th. And all this is just a fancy justification for the fact that I’m a day late, but…
Open Thread – Brian Goes to Madison!
That’s right. It’s the Mudflats mascot Brian the Moose coming to you from the capital of Wisconsin! Believe me, it was just as much a surprise to me as it is to you when I got an email from Mudflatter Attagirl with a picture of Brian in Madison! Attagirl and her husband traveled to the uprising in their neighbor state, and did a great write up of what they found. Check in later today (Wednesday afternoon) to read all about it and enjoy some awesome pictures from the center of labor movement.