August 06, 2004

NOTE FROM ALASKA

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My Uncle Pete, (yes, the one who was in the paper posing with a potato he grew that was shaped like a moose), sent another e-mail from his summer homestead in Alaska. This time, it's a batch of photos that show everything from the relatively dormant volcanos he can see from his home to the 10-inch clams he's caught this year. He knows how much I miss living there, so these are like snapshots from home for me.

I've said it a million times: if you can't take a beautiful photo in Alaska, you really don't deserve to hold a camera. And Uncle Pete has snapped some beauties.

The one above is of Mount Redoubt, the volcano that spewed on Ash Wednesday in the early 1990s.

"As you know,'' he writes, "this is the time for hundreds and hundreds of miles of Alaska highways painted with beautiful Fireweed."

His other photos include:

Mount Illiamna in all its glory.

The Russian church in Ninilchik with Mount Illiamna in the background.

Razor clams found at low tide in - where else? - Clam Gulch along Cook Inlet.

Another view of the Russian church, Cook Inlet and Mount Illiamna.

Mount Redoubt looking down the street in front of his house, Aug 5th, 10:55 p.m.

For photos of the tiny fishing village of Homer and the Kenai Peninsula, click below:


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Posted by Jeff at August 6, 2004 07:21 AM
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