You know what's missing from my yard full of dandelions. Absolutely no bees, no honey bees nor bumble bees. I do not remember ever seeing no bees. Just walked the whole 3 acres and none. Scary. I remember when they were few for a year or two, but not this. Can't be good.
Jim
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DISCOVERY OF THE 1st MT. MCKINLEY PAINTINGS BY ALASKA'S MOST FAMOUS ARTIST
After a decade in Alaska as an unsuccessful gold prospector, artist Sydney Laurence returned to painting at the encouragement of friends in Valdez who financed his painting of then in the news Mt, McKinley. They envisioned it being displayed to represent Alaska at the upcoming 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition to be held in San Francisco.
In 1913 an expedition was forming to attempt the first climbing of Mt. McKinley.
That summer Sydney Laurence travelled to within 10 miles of Mt.McKinley where he made some 40 color sketches. While there doing his sketches the first successful climb of the mountain was accomplished.
Upon his return to Valdez he painted two paintings of Mt. McKinley from the sketches. One was a large 6x8 foot painting that made it to the Smithsonian in February of 1915 and may have gone on to be displayed at the Pan-Pac Exposition with the Smithsonian exhibit that was at the World’s Fair. That painting titled “Top of the Continent” had been completed in 1914.
The second much smaller painting of Mt. McKinley was completed in 1913 qualifying it as Sydney Laurence’s first painting of Mt. McKinley.
In this video see the first, and smaller painting as it is today displayed in the Anchorage Museum. As I learned from an obscure document obtained from the Smithsonian, this painting had been given by the painter to a William Dickey whose payment towards the larger painting enabled the beginning of financial success for the previously “broke” Sydney Laurence.
Also of note this same William Dickey had been the geologist/prospector/explorer who in 1865 explored the Susitna Valley with its magnificent views of the mountain that he named “Mt.McKinley!”
As seen in this video taken at the Anchorage Museum is also my original printing of a color photograph of the now lost to the public “Top of the Continent” painting. This is a photograph of the 6x8 foot painting of Mt. McKinley that had been in the Smithsonian’s art collection for its first 50 years.
I acquired the photo after an extensive search and this is the first time Sydney Laurence’s first two painted images of Mt. McKinley have shared the same room since he painted them in 1913!
Link to Video at Anchorage Museum of Sydney Laurence's First Paintings of Mt. McKinley:
Sequel to My Saga Regarding Famed Alaska Artist Sydney Laurence’s 1st Mt. McKinley Paintings
-How an Obscure Document Just Received from the Smithsonian Sheds New Light on Sydney Laurence’s 1st Painting of Mt. McKinley that Hangs Here in Anchorage-
Previously I shared in some detail the history of the largest (6x8 foot) of Sydney Laurence’s first two substantive paintings of Mt. McKinley, the one that ended up in the Smithsonian’s art gallery for fifty years before it fell into private hands and became lost to the public. In my quest to attempt to find a photo of this lost painting titled “Top of the Continent” one of the places I had contacted was the Smithsonian.
Yesterday I just received copies of various documents from the Smithsonian which included documents confirming what I had come to conclude from my search with regard to “Top of the Continent.” In this sequel, however, it is not my intent to repeat what I have already reported regarding that quest related to the “Top of the Continent” painting.
This present reporting is to share some exciting information about the other 1st painting of Mt. McKinley that hangs here in our own Anchorage Museum. This new information was learned from an obscure document that only by chance was included since it was tangential to my search inquiry about the painting that had been in the Smithsonian.
This included obscure document that had been fortuitously preserved by the Smithsonian sheds new light upon the other of the first two substantive paintings by Sydney Laurence of Mt. McKinley.
While the document confirmed some of my assumptions about the second painting, even more importantly it revealed significant new information about this painting that hangs today in our own Anchorage Museum.
The subject second painting, while referenced to as “large” in the provided materials, is in fact small (26 1/2 x 38 inches), at least relative to its 6x8 foot companion, “Top of the Continent,” that resided in the Smithsonian.
The only name given for the smaller painting of Mt. McKinley is “Mt. McKinley.” It is consistently identified by its date of 1913 to distinguish it from all other subsequent paintings of Mt. McKinley by Sydney Laurence. [The document erroneously references the prior year of 1912 rather than 1913] This turns out to be the painting that arrived at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art just prior to Professor Keller Woodward publishing his definitive book on Sydney Laurence in 1990.
The document confirms Professor Woodward’s statement in his book about Sydney Laurence that this 1913 painting “is the first known Laurence Painting of the Mountain.” The document also confirms what I had concluded as to when in 1913 it was painted - concurrent with the painting of “Top of the Continent” which was not completed until 1914. It also confirmed that both paintings were painted in Valdez based upon the same color sketches of Mt. McKinley that Laurence had painted and brought back to Valdez from his travel close to the mountain in the summer of 1913.
(As an aside, since my previous posting I have heard from the author Keller Woodward who wrote, “I’m traveling back east with family, but will dig out my old files on “Top of the Continent” when I am home…. I’ll be back in touch. Congratulations on your great finds.” It will be fun to learn if it turns our there are even more revelations to share about “Top of the Continent.”)
The most exciting (at least to me) new information gleaned from the aforementioned obscure document is that this first of the two companion paintings was gifted by the artist to the man who named Mt. McKinley!
We learn that this 1913 Sydney Laurence Painting of Mt. McKinley remained in the possession of its owner throughout his life and was eventually sold by a Seattle bookstore, which receipted it from two of his children, in 1954.
The man who named Mt. McKinley, a Mr. William A. Dickey, was a geologist who as a miner and early explorer had ventured into the “Valley of the Susitna” in 1896 where the grandeur of Mt. McKinley (then known by the Cook Inlet peoples by its Russian given name, Bulshaia or Bolshaya Gora) became evident. His discovery was reportedly published in the “National Geographic” and/or a “New York Sun” article the following year which led to the name he had given to it of Mt. McKinley eventually being adopted instead of Bulshaia.
In the subject obscure document of February 6, 1954 which was published by the Seattle Bookstore regarding the 1913 Sydney Laurence Mt. McKinley painting the following was written:
“… this painting may be the most significant Alaskan painting in modern times.”
“This painting we are offering now is claimed to be the original of them [Mt. McKinley paintings] all, made by Laurence shortly after his trip into the Valley of the Susitna River in [1913] when he sketched the mountain with oils for the first time.”
“… this painting can unquestionably be classed historically as the prize Alaska painting of them all and one fully worthy to head the Alaskan collection in any large museum or library.”
Although it took approximately an additional three and a half decades for the 1913 Sydney Laurence Painting of Mt. McKinley to reach the “Alaskan collection [of the Anchorage] large museum,” it did begin its further journey in those early months of 1954 to eventually “head” here.
Related Photos beginning with Sydney Laurence' first two Mt. McKinley Paintings:
The 1916 Mt. McKinley now in the Anchorage Museum:
The "Top of the Continent" Mount McKinley once in the Smithsonian:
The Fortuitously Preserved Obscure Document I Just Received from the Smithsonian:
View of Mt. McKinley looking North similar to the view Sydney Laurence had when he made sketches in the summer of 1913 for his first two paintings of Mount McKinley:
Aerial View of Mt. McKinley looking North:
Contemporary (b. 1939) Artist Ernest Robertson's view of Mt. McKinley, also looking North, as seen in a painting at my office:
YESTERDAY'S Cook Inlet DAREDEVIL MUD CHANNEL NAVIGATION ATTEMPT AS I CAPTURED IT ON VIDEO.
TO THE SOUNDS OF "WATCH THIS." WATCH AN AIRBOAT ATTEMPT TO NAVIGATE A Cook Inlet MUD CHANNEL - AND THEN THE ATTEMPT HAS TO BE ABORTED WHEN A SWEEPER IS ENCOUNTERED - FOLLOWED BY A TURNAROUND THAT CAN ONLY BE ACCOMPLISHED BY GROUNDING THEIR CRAFT AND STEPPING ONTO THE QUICKSAND-LIKE GLACIER SILT MUD:
After having navigated through a channel in the mud flats that separate Cook Inlet from Anchorage’s shoreline, an Airboat has had to beach itself to avoid a sweeper as seen in the above linked video and concurrently taken photo.
Watch the successful escape after the crew avoided sinking into the glacier silt after they had beached their boat and been able to reposition it:
Watch as one Cook Inlet Tug Boat returns to its dock while the other continues to pull a fully loaded barge that looks like it might topple over in a storm.
They head past Magnificent scenic Mount Susitna and toward the expected to any day erupt Mount Spurr Volcano that is situated just 80 miles away from Anchorage.
DISCOVERY OF THE 1st MT. MCKINLEY PAINTINGS BY ALASKA'S MOST FAMOUS ARTIST
After a decade in Alaska as an unsuccessful gold prospector, artist Sydney Laurence returned to painting at the encouragement of friends in Valdez who financed his painting of then in the news Mt, McKinley. They envisioned it being displayed to represent Alaska at the upcoming 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition to be held in San Francisco.
In 1913 an expedition was forming to attempt the first climbing of Mt. McKinley.
That summer Sydney Laurence travelled to within 10 miles of Mt.McKinley where he made some 40 color sketches. While there doing his sketches the first successful climb of the mountain was accomplished.
Upon his return to Valdez he painted two paintings of Mt. McKinley from the sketches. One was a large 6x8 foot painting that made it to the Smithsonian in February of 1915 and may have gone on to be displayed at the Pan-Pac Exposition with the Smithsonian exhibit that was at the World’s Fair. That painting titled “Top of the Continent” had been completed in 1914.
The second much smaller painting of Mt. McKinley was completed in 1913 qualifying it as Sydney Laurence’s first painting of Mt. McKinley.
In this video see the first, and smaller painting as it is today displayed in the Anchorage Museum. As I learned from an obscure document obtained from the Smithsonian, this painting had been given by the painter to a William Dickey whose payment towards the larger painting enabled the beginning of financial success for the previously “broke” Sydney Laurence.
Also of note this same William Dickey had been the geologist/prospector/explorer who in 1865 explored the Susitna Valley with its magnificent views of the mountain that he named “Mt.McKinley!”
As seen in this video taken at the Anchorage Museum is also my original printing of a color photograph of the now lost to the public “Top of the Continent” painting. This is a photograph of the 6x8 foot painting of Mt. McKinley that had been in the Smithsonian’s art collection for its first 50 years.
I acquired the photo after an extensive search and this is the first time Sydney Laurence’s first two painted images of Mt. McKinley have shared the same room since he painted them in 1913!
Link to Video at Anchorage Museum of Sydney Laurence's First Paintings of Mt. McKinley:
Sequel to My Saga Regarding Famed Alaska Artist Sydney Laurence’s 1st Mt. McKinley Paintings
-How an Obscure Document Just Received from the Smithsonian Sheds New Light on Sydney Laurence’s 1st Painting of Mt. McKinley that Hangs Here in Anchorage-
Previously I shared in some detail the history of the largest (6x8 foot) of Sydney Laurence’s first two substantive paintings of Mt. McKinley, the one that ended up in the Smithsonian’s art gallery for fifty years before it fell into private hands and became lost to the public. In my quest to attempt to find a photo of this lost painting titled “Top of the Continent” one of the places I had contacted was the Smithsonian.
Yesterday I just received copies of various documents from the Smithsonian which included documents confirming what I had come to conclude from my search with regard to “Top of the Continent.” In this sequel, however, it is not my intent to repeat what I have already reported regarding that quest related to the “Top of the Continent” painting.
This present reporting is to share some exciting information about the other 1st painting of Mt. McKinley that hangs here in our own Anchorage Museum. This new information was learned from an obscure document that only by chance was included since it was tangential to my search inquiry about the painting that had been in the Smithsonian.
This included obscure document that had been fortuitously preserved by the Smithsonian sheds new light upon the other of the first two substantive paintings by Sydney Laurence of Mt. McKinley.
While the document confirmed some of my assumptions about the second painting, even more importantly it revealed significant new information about this painting that hangs today in our own Anchorage Museum.
The subject second painting, while referenced to as “large” in the provided materials, is in fact small (26 1/2 x 38 inches), at least relative to its 6x8 foot companion, “Top of the Continent,” that resided in the Smithsonian.
The only name given for the smaller painting of Mt. McKinley is “Mt. McKinley.” It is consistently identified by its date of 1913 to distinguish it from all other subsequent paintings of Mt. McKinley by Sydney Laurence. [The document erroneously references the prior year of 1912 rather than 1913] This turns out to be the painting that arrived at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art just prior to Professor Keller Woodward publishing his definitive book on Sydney Laurence in 1990.
The document confirms Professor Woodward’s statement in his book about Sydney Laurence that this 1913 painting “is the first known Laurence Painting of the Mountain.” The document also confirms what I had concluded as to when in 1913 it was painted - concurrent with the painting of “Top of the Continent” which was not completed until 1914. It also confirmed that both paintings were painted in Valdez based upon the same color sketches of Mt. McKinley that Laurence had painted and brought back to Valdez from his travel close to the mountain in the summer of 1913.
(As an aside, since my previous posting I have heard from the author Keller Woodward who wrote, “I’m traveling back east with family, but will dig out my old files on “Top of the Continent” when I am home…. I’ll be back in touch. Congratulations on your great finds.” It will be fun to learn if it turns our there are even more revelations to share about “Top of the Continent.”)
The most exciting (at least to me) new information gleaned from the aforementioned obscure document is that this first of the two companion paintings was gifted by the artist to the man who named Mt. McKinley!
We learn that this 1913 Sydney Laurence Painting of Mt. McKinley remained in the possession of its owner throughout his life and was eventually sold by a Seattle bookstore, which receipted it from two of his children, in 1954.
The man who named Mt. McKinley, a Mr. William A. Dickey, was a geologist who as a miner and early explorer had ventured into the “Valley of the Susitna” in 1896 where the grandeur of Mt. McKinley (then known by the Cook Inlet peoples by its Russian given name, Bulshaia or Bolshaya Gora) became evident. His discovery was reportedly published in the “National Geographic” and/or a “New York Sun” article the following year which led to the name he had given to it of Mt. McKinley eventually being adopted instead of Bulshaia.
In the subject obscure document of February 6, 1954 which was published by the Seattle Bookstore regarding the 1913 Sydney Laurence Mt. McKinley painting the following was written:
“… this painting may be the most significant Alaskan painting in modern times.”
“This painting we are offering now is claimed to be the original of them [Mt. McKinley paintings] all, made by Laurence shortly after his trip into the Valley of the Susitna River in [1913] when he sketched the mountain with oils for the first time.”
“… this painting can unquestionably be classed historically as the prize Alaska painting of them all and one fully worthy to head the Alaskan collection in any large museum or library.”
Although it took approximately an additional three and a half decades for the 1913 Sydney Laurence Painting of Mt. McKinley to reach the “Alaskan collection [of the Anchorage] large museum,” it did begin its further journey in those early months of 1954 to eventually “head” here.
Related Photos beginning with Sydney Laurence' first two Mt. McKinley Paintings:
The 1913 Mt. McKinley now in the Anchorage Museum:
I have just caught and corrected the date above the first of the above photos. It now correctly reads, "The 1913 Mt. McKinley now in the Anchorage Museum" (not 1916).
TODAY'S FRIDAY EVE VIEWS ALONG ANCHORAGE ALASKA'S Cook Inlet WITH SHIPS, MOUNTAINS, AND TRAIN:
Expected to erupt Mt Spurr Volcano, shrouded by clouds, is seen across Anchorage Alaska’s Cook Inlet while closer Mt Susitna appears along with Ships and Alaska Railroad Train
Link to Video of this Friday Evening overlooking Cook Inlet:
The Lake over which the Bald Eagle flew, once a set for an Arctic Ocean Whale Hunt in the opening scene of the Hollywood film (featuring Drew Barrymore/John Krasinski/Kristin Bell/Ted Danson) "Big Miracle:"
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You know what's missing from my yard full of dandelions. Absolutely no bees, no honey bees nor bumble bees. I do not remember ever seeing no bees. Just walked the whole 3 acres and none. Scary. I remember when they were few for a year or two, but not this. Can't be good.
Jim
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DISCOVERY OF THE 1st MT. MCKINLEY PAINTINGS BY ALASKA'S MOST FAMOUS ARTIST
After a decade in Alaska as an unsuccessful gold prospector, artist Sydney Laurence returned to painting at the encouragement of friends in Valdez who financed his painting of then in the news Mt, McKinley. They envisioned it being displayed to represent Alaska at the upcoming 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition to be held in San Francisco.
In 1913 an expedition was forming to attempt the first climbing of Mt. McKinley.
That summer Sydney Laurence travelled to within 10 miles of Mt.McKinley where he made some 40 color sketches. While there doing his sketches the first successful climb of the mountain was accomplished.
Upon his return to Valdez he painted two paintings of Mt. McKinley from the sketches. One was a large 6x8 foot painting that made it to the Smithsonian in February of 1915 and may have gone on to be displayed at the Pan-Pac Exposition with the Smithsonian exhibit that was at the World’s Fair. That painting titled “Top of the Continent” had been completed in 1914.
The second much smaller painting of Mt. McKinley was completed in 1913 qualifying it as Sydney Laurence’s first painting of Mt. McKinley.
In this video see the first, and smaller painting as it is today displayed in the Anchorage Museum. As I learned from an obscure document obtained from the Smithsonian, this painting had been given by the painter to a William Dickey whose payment towards the larger painting enabled the beginning of financial success for the previously “broke” Sydney Laurence.
Also of note this same William Dickey had been the geologist/prospector/explorer who in 1865 explored the Susitna Valley with its magnificent views of the mountain that he named “Mt.McKinley!”
As seen in this video taken at the Anchorage Museum is also my original printing of a color photograph of the now lost to the public “Top of the Continent” painting. This is a photograph of the 6x8 foot painting of Mt. McKinley that had been in the Smithsonian’s art collection for its first 50 years.
I acquired the photo after an extensive search and this is the first time Sydney Laurence’s first two painted images of Mt. McKinley have shared the same room since he painted them in 1913!
Link to Video at Anchorage Museum of Sydney Laurence's First Paintings of Mt. McKinley:
THE REST OF THE STORY:
Sequel to My Saga Regarding Famed Alaska Artist Sydney Laurence’s 1st Mt. McKinley Paintings
-How an Obscure Document Just Received from the Smithsonian Sheds New Light on Sydney Laurence’s 1st Painting of Mt. McKinley that Hangs Here in Anchorage-
Previously I shared in some detail the history of the largest (6x8 foot) of Sydney Laurence’s first two substantive paintings of Mt. McKinley, the one that ended up in the Smithsonian’s art gallery for fifty years before it fell into private hands and became lost to the public. In my quest to attempt to find a photo of this lost painting titled “Top of the Continent” one of the places I had contacted was the Smithsonian.
Yesterday I just received copies of various documents from the Smithsonian which included documents confirming what I had come to conclude from my search with regard to “Top of the Continent.” In this sequel, however, it is not my intent to repeat what I have already reported regarding that quest related to the “Top of the Continent” painting.
This present reporting is to share some exciting information about the other 1st painting of Mt. McKinley that hangs here in our own Anchorage Museum. This new information was learned from an obscure document that only by chance was included since it was tangential to my search inquiry about the painting that had been in the Smithsonian.
This included obscure document that had been fortuitously preserved by the Smithsonian sheds new light upon the other of the first two substantive paintings by Sydney Laurence of Mt. McKinley.
While the document confirmed some of my assumptions about the second painting, even more importantly it revealed significant new information about this painting that hangs today in our own Anchorage Museum.
The subject second painting, while referenced to as “large” in the provided materials, is in fact small (26 1/2 x 38 inches), at least relative to its 6x8 foot companion, “Top of the Continent,” that resided in the Smithsonian.
The only name given for the smaller painting of Mt. McKinley is “Mt. McKinley.” It is consistently identified by its date of 1913 to distinguish it from all other subsequent paintings of Mt. McKinley by Sydney Laurence. [The document erroneously references the prior year of 1912 rather than 1913] This turns out to be the painting that arrived at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art just prior to Professor Keller Woodward publishing his definitive book on Sydney Laurence in 1990.
The document confirms Professor Woodward’s statement in his book about Sydney Laurence that this 1913 painting “is the first known Laurence Painting of the Mountain.” The document also confirms what I had concluded as to when in 1913 it was painted - concurrent with the painting of “Top of the Continent” which was not completed until 1914. It also confirmed that both paintings were painted in Valdez based upon the same color sketches of Mt. McKinley that Laurence had painted and brought back to Valdez from his travel close to the mountain in the summer of 1913.
(As an aside, since my previous posting I have heard from the author Keller Woodward who wrote, “I’m traveling back east with family, but will dig out my old files on “Top of the Continent” when I am home…. I’ll be back in touch. Congratulations on your great finds.” It will be fun to learn if it turns our there are even more revelations to share about “Top of the Continent.”)
The most exciting (at least to me) new information gleaned from the aforementioned obscure document is that this first of the two companion paintings was gifted by the artist to the man who named Mt. McKinley!
We learn that this 1913 Sydney Laurence Painting of Mt. McKinley remained in the possession of its owner throughout his life and was eventually sold by a Seattle bookstore, which receipted it from two of his children, in 1954.
The man who named Mt. McKinley, a Mr. William A. Dickey, was a geologist who as a miner and early explorer had ventured into the “Valley of the Susitna” in 1896 where the grandeur of Mt. McKinley (then known by the Cook Inlet peoples by its Russian given name, Bulshaia or Bolshaya Gora) became evident. His discovery was reportedly published in the “National Geographic” and/or a “New York Sun” article the following year which led to the name he had given to it of Mt. McKinley eventually being adopted instead of Bulshaia.
In the subject obscure document of February 6, 1954 which was published by the Seattle Bookstore regarding the 1913 Sydney Laurence Mt. McKinley painting the following was written:
“… this painting may be the most significant Alaskan painting in modern times.”
“This painting we are offering now is claimed to be the original of them [Mt. McKinley paintings] all, made by Laurence shortly after his trip into the Valley of the Susitna River in [1913] when he sketched the mountain with oils for the first time.”
“… this painting can unquestionably be classed historically as the prize Alaska painting of them all and one fully worthy to head the Alaskan collection in any large museum or library.”
Although it took approximately an additional three and a half decades for the 1913 Sydney Laurence Painting of Mt. McKinley to reach the “Alaskan collection [of the Anchorage] large museum,” it did begin its further journey in those early months of 1954 to eventually “head” here.
Related Photos beginning with Sydney Laurence' first two Mt. McKinley Paintings:
The 1916 Mt. McKinley now in the Anchorage Museum:
The "Top of the Continent" Mount McKinley once in the Smithsonian:
The Fortuitously Preserved Obscure Document I Just Received from the Smithsonian:
View of Mt. McKinley looking North similar to the view Sydney Laurence had when he made sketches in the summer of 1913 for his first two paintings of Mount McKinley:
Aerial View of Mt. McKinley looking North:
Contemporary (b. 1939) Artist Ernest Robertson's view of Mt. McKinley, also looking North, as seen in a painting at my office:
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YESTERDAY'S Cook Inlet DAREDEVIL MUD CHANNEL NAVIGATION ATTEMPT AS I CAPTURED IT ON VIDEO.
TO THE SOUNDS OF "WATCH THIS." WATCH AN AIRBOAT ATTEMPT TO NAVIGATE A Cook Inlet MUD CHANNEL - AND THEN THE ATTEMPT HAS TO BE ABORTED WHEN A SWEEPER IS ENCOUNTERED - FOLLOWED BY A TURNAROUND THAT CAN ONLY BE ACCOMPLISHED BY GROUNDING THEIR CRAFT AND STEPPING ONTO THE QUICKSAND-LIKE GLACIER SILT MUD:
Link to Video of the Navigation Attempt:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gHhG9z58UMg
Concurrently taken Photo:
After having navigated through a channel in the mud flats that separate Cook Inlet from Anchorage’s shoreline, an Airboat has had to beach itself to avoid a sweeper as seen in the above linked video and concurrently taken photo.
Watch the successful escape after the crew avoided sinking into the glacier silt after they had beached their boat and been able to reposition it:
Link to Video of the Escape:
Added views from yesterday looking out toward Cook Inlet including Sunset Views of Mount Susitna and the yet to Erupt Mount Spurr Volcano:
Concurrently taken Videos of the Barge and Tugboats Operating in Cook Inlet:
In a Titanic effort, two Alaska tugboats rotate huge barge in the eerily still Cook Inlet waters:
Link to Video of Titanic Effort by two small tugboats spinning around Huge Barge as set to music from "The Titanic:"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NPSRLI-kzGA
Watch as one Cook Inlet Tug Boat returns to its dock while the other continues to pull a fully loaded barge that looks like it might topple over in a storm.
They head past Magnificent scenic Mount Susitna and toward the expected to any day erupt Mount Spurr Volcano that is situated just 80 miles away from Anchorage.
Link to Video of the Tugboats at work:
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Today is my wife's birthday (old photo of her)
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I have just caught and corrected the date above the first of the above photos. It now correctly reads, "The 1913 Mt. McKinley now in the Anchorage Museum" (not 1916).
TODAY'S FRIDAY EVE VIEWS ALONG ANCHORAGE ALASKA'S Cook Inlet WITH SHIPS, MOUNTAINS, AND TRAIN:
Expected to erupt Mt Spurr Volcano, shrouded by clouds, is seen across Anchorage Alaska’s Cook Inlet while closer Mt Susitna appears along with Ships and Alaska Railroad Train
Link to Video of this Friday Evening overlooking Cook Inlet:
Two Accompanying "Cliff Notes" Music Video Versions of Friday View Along Cook Inlet:
Link to 1st Music Video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2QU1k7RVvuY
Link to 2nd Music Video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ArdTGFkqg7w
And my contemporaneously taken photos:
This was taken many years ago in the Reading Railroad Terminal (Now Reading Terminal Market) in Philadelphia, PA.
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USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
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USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
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USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
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My mother used one like this to sprinkle the clothes before she ironed them - brings back memories too
USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
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USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
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Tuskegee Airmen from WWII
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Roadside picnic while on a road trip
USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
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USN & USAF retired 1971-1993
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Still unopened.
Last Week's Bald Eagle Sighting in my neighborhood just as I left for work:
Link to Video of The fly away:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XDkuULO66GY
The Lake over which the Bald Eagle flew, once a set for an Arctic Ocean Whale Hunt in the opening scene of the Hollywood film (featuring Drew Barrymore/John Krasinski/Kristin Bell/Ted Danson) "Big Miracle:"