On this same topic I just received these from my friend Dennis Zaki showing the termination dust on the mountains which alerts all of us that winter is just around the corner.
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| Lazy Mountain |
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| Eklutna Glacier |
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| Pioneer Peak |
Thursday, September 05, 2013
A little Alaska beauty for you to admire as I bid you good night my friends.
On this same topic I just received these from my friend Dennis Zaki showing the termination dust on the mountains which alerts all of us that winter is just around the corner.
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So gorgeous...
ReplyDeleteLove the pictures, Gryph - thanks Dennis! Alaska truly is beautiful and awe-inspiring. I remember landing (finally! after 3-days of trying) in Anchorage to see all the vegetation sparkling in the sunlight during/after an ice fog storm. Unbelievably gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteYes...I agree on the tough winter.
ReplyDeleteHere in the wilds of Wyoming (which is beautiful as well...and collects the ugly just the same)...we are down to one little hummingbird. Just one. After there were so many in mid-July I went out and bought two 25 lb bags of sugar just to keep up.
Usually they're around a bit longer. I'm wondering if they know something's up.
I haven't seen snow yet...but the temperature has definitely dropped. The wind has changed. Sadly...the shortest of all seasons here, the elusive summer, is quickly slipping away.
To answer your question, ask yourself what attracted you to stay there?
ReplyDeleteThanks for once again sharing Dennis Zaki's marvelous photography with readers here, Gryph.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what winter has in store for us, but the termination dust this year is about eleven days later than last year, two weeks later than late summer 2011. 2011 brought a long, moist and snowy winter. 2012 brought a rather mild one.
My animals are still shucking fur from last winter, not putting on new coats. Usually, if the winter is going to be tough, they are getting hairier by now.
O/T, but I have a question for the Alaskans in your audience. I've been teaching my dog the commands Gee and Haw when I want him to turn right or left when we're out walking (yeah, the locals here probably think I'm nuts!). Is Gee properly pronounced as in Gear, or as in Gee Whiz, or is this a matter of some dispute?
ReplyDeleteLast year this time, I was employed and looking good, making money, and had a freezer full of fish. Then I went to work one day and my boss stood in the middle of the office and announced that he is not a bigot, because he hates "blacks, jews, AND democrats". That was a Friday. I talked with my family and e-mailed a resignation on Monday. It was a difficult winter, because I spent several months unemployed, but my family helped with my bills. They were amazing, and every time I felt bad about taking help, they reminded me that these people were not ones that needed my help in getting richer.
ReplyDeleteI am now employed again, and working for people I can really get behind. They are working to do the job, but also to really support their employees.
I think this will be a much easier winter, and it is because I know that I am in the right place. I also know that my family helped me through a difficult time, and when the next goddamn republican comes accross my path telling me that democrats just want to take money frome the government, I can personally spit in their eye.
PS. I am talking about my family here. I do not mean my parents, and I am not 25. I am over 50, and my kids supported me financially through this last year. They do not live with me. It was not easy, they don't have a lot of money. But we made sacrifices.
I wanted to share this, because I do not think this will be a hard winter. I think this will be the 2nd best winter I have ever had.
Congratulations 1:54! You have raised a wonderful family! It isn't always the case.
DeleteAs for quitting, I had essentially the same situation. I was working for a man who had a vicious temper and was always looking for ways to screw his employees. This included lying to them about the law and such. He was not happy whenever I forced him to back down on the legal questions. (I held the required state license for the work he was doing, so firing me would have closed him down.)
But he went WAY too far one day when he told me "I don't want no damned "N***ers" working here!"
He REALLY got pissed when I told HIM: "I don't work for damned BIGOTS!" and walked out.
Later, he got a visit from the NAACP AND the Employment Security Commission! They fined him - heavily - because at the time the company was looking for more employees and discrimination is against the law.
They slammed him hard because when they walked in (half of the Commission investigators were black) he ordered them out by saying he didn't let no "N***ers" in his place of business.
Broke my heart. (LMAO!!!!!!)
Wondrous!
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