July 15... Will post today's and this week's blog later this week... Pictures would not transfer...so will try those also when we go to Wasilla toward the end of the week... Until then...Blessings!
ST. PETER ~ LCMS WHITEFISH, MT 59937 SAVED THROUGH GRACE BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST Sunday School ~ none in summer; 10:45 am fall, winter, spring Worship ~ 9:30am Sunday Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays Bible study ~ 10:45 am Men's Bible study ~ 6am @ Pin & Cue Phone ~ 406-862-3008 On the way to Whitefish (Big) Mountain 201 Wisconsin Ave. POB 883 Whitefish, MT 59937 James Maxwell, Pastor
ATHELAS OUTDOOR MINISTRY The mission of Athelas is to provide spiritual and emotional renewal by the application of Christian teaching and principles in a wilderness environment.Athelas Outdoor Ministry is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, founded by Darla and Marty Kaarre in 2001. Athelas is governed by a volunteer board of directors. athelasoutdoor.org chikaddd@hotmail.com 1-877-862-8382 1-406-261-7187 POB 883 Whitefish, MT 59937
For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. Ps. 139:13
Seder 2010
Seder 2010
How to transport a cabinet in AK....it's just WRONG!
WHERE'S THE DUCT TAPE!!!
Moose back of house
And again...the awesome sunset!
Saved by Griz
Decorated for Christmas
1/2 [HALF!!!] standard breakfast at the Roadhouse
$9.95
Talkeetna Spur Road~Denali
Montana Creek~no salmon
Malispina Loop snow~2010
Our land in winter~2010
Almost dark~Alaska
Dusk in Alaska
Flying into SeaTac before daylight
Yup...KILT...he'll be warm on his head!
38th Iditarod ceremonial start in Anchorage 2010
Karsyn Kay~3 days old~she's perfect!
Banff mountains
AB raven
Sunwapta Falls~Icefields Parkway, AB
1942 Ranger Station~Grande Cache, AB
THE lemon/creme cake...a party in your mouth!
AB coyote
Grande Prairie, AB
Original curved wooden bridge on old Alcan
One of many closed stopping places along AK Hwy
BC snow~Sept. 7, 2009
No telephoto...and I was IN the p/u!
Sandhill cranes in the Yukon sky
Liard River
Whitehorse, YT
Thru a hole in the outhouse wall...
Kluane River valley
Yukon Swan
Cow moose
Jack River~Parks Hwy
Fall colors along the Parks Hwy~Sept. 2, 2009
Ninilchik moon~August 29, 2009
Followed the southern horizon
Ninilchik River and the old village
Russian Orthodox Church~Old Ninilchik Village
Old wooden canoe~Old Ninilchik Village
Cook Inlet and Mt. Augustine~volcano 30 miles to SSW
Resident moose and calf
...still alive
Hatcher Pass area
These 'bumps' were under the blueberry bushes all over the hill
...why I sat and rolled...
On blueberry hill
Wild salmon and halibut
Excellent!
Raspberry beer imported from Belgium
Need I say more...
4 wheeler logging
Dead spruce cutting
"I'm a logger..."
The back door...
The lone tree...gone...
...looks MUCH better!
Bush plane for viewing Denali...Fish Lake
39066 S. Malispina Loop, Talkeetna, AK
Our drive to the left...end of road 1/2 mile...neighbor to right.
Melted cheese, crackers, wine and a good book...
...around the campfire...RELAXATION!
Devil's Club
Pretty, but full of thorns!
Dee, Alex, Barb, Mark, Lyle, Vern
Denali from the east
Nenana River
Beaded moose altar cloth in 1905 log church~Nenana, AK
Nenana Ice Classic tripod
Salmon on drying rack
Fishing weir at Nenana, AK
Old cabin by Salcha, AK
Denali from the north
Old moose smoker
Powers family in AK
Jackson Dale Powers~7 weeks old
Chatkanika gold dredge and tailings ~ July 29, 2009
For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. Ps. 139:13
ATHELAS OUTDOOR MINISTRY The mission of Athelas is to provide spiritual and emotional renewal by the application of Christian teaching and principles in a wilderness environment.Athelas Outdoor Ministry is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, founded by Darla and Marty Kaarre in 2001. Athelas is governed by a volunteer board of directors. athelasoutdoor.org chikaddd@hotmail.com 1-877-862-8382 1-406-261-7187 POB 883 Whitefish, MT 59937
ST. PETER ~ LCMS WHITEFISH, MT 59937 SAVED THROUGH GRACE BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST Sunday School ~ none in summer; 10:45 am fall, winter, spring Worship ~ 9:30am Sunday Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays Bible study ~ 10:45 am Men's Bible study ~ 6am @ Pin & Cue Phone ~ 406-862-3008 On the way to Whitefish (Big) Mountain 201 Wisconsin Ave. POB 883 Whitefish, MT 59937 James Maxwell, Pastor
Alaska Range/Tanana River~July 26, 2009
cloud from fire storm over North Pole ~ July 25, 2009
Fire storm at Nenana, AK July 25, 2009
Kluane Lake
Yukon River
Liard Hot Springs
BC black bear with daisies in mouth
And the road goes on...
Muskwa River, BC
20 miles of chip-seal...DUSTY
Steamboat Mountain, BC
Kootenay River Valley, BC, Canada
Peace River Valley canola farmland
Athabasca Falls, Icefields Parkway
Big Horn sheep along Icefields Parkway
Along Icefields Parkway, AB, Canada 7-2009
Castle Mountain, AB Canada 7, 2009
Deadwood hotel staricase 2009
Deadwood saloon 2009
beargrass along mountainsides~Seeley Swan 2009
Tasha~Shannon~Chrysa at Royal Gorge 2009
45 degree incline railcar down to river at Royal Gorge 2009
Royal Gorge bridge from canyon floor 2009
Whitefish sled dogs ~ 881-BARK
Valentine's Day ~ 2009
Frost from fog on fence
Frost from fog
I just want to know...is it ever going to be spring!
Snow banks on roads, Fargo, ND 2009
Hard winter in Fargo 2009
Ellis' ~ Jan. 2, 2009
January 2, 2009
St. Ignatius Mission
Mission Mountains
Christmas ducks~2008
December 2008 Montana sunset
Up the North Fork
Looking into Canada
Lyndy and Sterling
Thanksgiving 2008
Shad with Sterling
Thanksgiving 2008
Lyndy and Grandma
Thanksgiving 2008
Flathead Lake sunrise Nov. 1, 2008
Lakeside, MT docks
Sunrise over Flathead Lake Nov. 1, 2008
Two Medicine barn
Missouri River Great Falls
6 cords of wood under the deck...ready for winter
Eastern front horses
Eastern front buffalo
Gramma with Sterling and Lyndy
Sterling with Uncle K crossed feet
Sterling rearranged ground with face
Old barn north of Avon, MT
Old barn by Elliston, MT
Montana mountains with snow...view from Deep Creek Road
Beaded jewelry
Homemade card
sunset from our deck
A mirrored Little Therreault Lake
View of lake from our campsite
Fawn swimming across lake
Mama duck with babies
Dock at Little Therreault Lake
Storm over Bridger's
East side bison
Poppies
East side horses~Glacier Park mountains
Stan's wood carvings...yup...they sell!
Booth with wall hangings that don't sell
Bear grass at Summit
Lyndy and Sterling on tractor their great great uncle made from scratch
July 4th fireworks
Canoe trip on Newlan
Spring blossoms
Newlan Lake
The Back .0040
And it got worse after this was taken!
Athelas retreat banner
Bunny in feeding dish
God's creation
Modified small bear hanging
Tasha in Blackhawk
landed in school parking lot
Athelas banner
Essex snow
Blackfeet sculpture
Eastern front of Rockies
Sun on Columbia Mountains 1/31/2008 5:30pm
Schmitty helping with all hangings
Wolf wall hanging
Bear wall hanging
Bison wall hanging
Moose wall hanging
Elk wall hanging
Our house Dec. 29, 2007
Looking up Deer Trail from our house
The short-haired one
AK solstice moon @ 4:15pm
Nuthatch
Chickadee
'Fake' Christmas tree ~2007
Wooden moose head wall hanging
Flowers downtown Whitefish
Big Mountain
ski resort
St. Peter LCMS~Whitefish, MT
where the banner still hangs
One of the five bunnies
ABLAZE! banner
God's Grace...Our Response...That the world may know...we have found the Messiah
Fall colors in Whitefish
One of my favorite people's mountains...
I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Joshua 1:5
The Baby Snowy Owl mascot
Usually watching where we are going...
Clothes pin on CB antenna wire
How does a trucker fix a static-ee radio
Yukon River bridge and pipeline on haul road
Haul Road and Pipeline
Coldfoot, Alaska
South Slope Atigun Pass, Brooks Range
North Slope Atigun Pass, Brooks Range
Atigun Pass ~ Brooks Range ~ Alaska
Tetlin Wildlife Refuge ~ Alaska
Teslin Lake ~ Yukon Territory
A special swan
Dease Lake ~ Cassiar
Iskut River along Cassiar
The Cassiar
Most is paved and a very good road
On the Cassiar
Meziadin Lake Provencial Park
Isaiah 40:31
...but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,they will walk and not be faint.
Old Native Masks
Nunivak Stone Head
Over 200 years old, found on Nunivak Island...note the face (left side)
Native Alaskan game
A Native Alaskan game
Weight is only on hand and thumb!
Yup'ik/Cup'ik men's (left) & women's (right) house
Separated for education during the day in winter
Doorway in Eskimo home
Not big enough for a polar bear
Eyak/Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian house
SE Alaska
Awesome quilt!
Palmer State Fair
Another awesome quilt
Palmer State Fair
Spawn Taneous Combustion
Salmon on Parade
Salmon Eggs
Salmon on Parade
Salmon on Parade
Palmer State Fair ~ Alaska
How could God not love us if He knew us before we were even formed!
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful... Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book BEFORE one of them came to be. Ps. 139: 13-14a, 16.
Russian Plane
Merrill Field~Anchorage
Lindsay and Jack
At the Palmer rodeo
Logger
Climbing pole at fair
Logger at the fair
Chandler and Sam
Riding the slingshot
Jeff and Tanner
Riding the slingshot
24 pound cabbage at fair
Bull moose in swimming pool
Just how hot IS IT in Lincoln, MT???
Spruce tree burls and roots
Birch tree stump
Spruce tree burls
Dragonfly
Trumpeter Swans
Drying after bath
Trumpeter Swan
bathing
Phantom moose #2 track
Phantom moose #1 track
Hannibul
Part Yak/part beef
Hannibul's behind
Tera
Showing her steer
Lindsay
Going for a barrel win!
Flowers at Carr's in Palmer
Mountain Ash foliage color change
It's the season...
Cranes at pocket mail site
Cow moose and yearling
At pocket mail site/swimming hole
Not a hobo...
What is it??????
Cleaning off mud at the swimming hole
Grizzly track
Fairly fresh
Mud bog...rocks
4 Wheeler trail
Which way to go...all three ways full of water and huge rocks
Talking to Bobbi from 4 wheeler trail
Along the 4 wheeler trail off Yoder Road
Oh~Oh!
Jeff's stuck in a deep mud bog...
Jeff is unstuck
Winch to the rescue...again...
Oops...
Ya think Jack's stuck???
Getting on to get out...
Jeff makes it over on the Kodiak to help
Finally out!
Me...in the mud...
DON'T WEAR CROCS IN MUD!
My leg/foot
Kinda muddy...
Fearsome Foursome!
Adams' and Jack around fire
Roadhouse sign
Home of...see next picture...
Awesome soup and THICK sooo yummy bread!
Completion of expansion of road/pad
Start of trail
Looking from back of camper...east...kinda...
Blueberry patch site
Trail on property
Part of the 600 foot trail we made...
Devil's Club
Nasty...thorns...consider carefully where you 'sit' in the woods!
Road...on left; Beaver dam on right
Yup...water over ROCKY road...
Trumpeter Swans
...and the back.
Trumpeter Swans
The front/side...
Samantha and the Swans
They never took their eyes off her!
Denali from Bonco Lake in winter
Denali
As usual~awesome!
A front moving in
Bird
Part of the Behind Trip
The pocketmail site
Spruce Chick
Spruce Chicken
Dwarf fireweed
Elderberries
Watermelon berries
Trailing raspberry
Bird
Eating sooo yummy bugs after soil dug up
Our camp
More Montana Creek salmon
Young grizzlies dressed as sandhill cranes
REALLY!!!
Gray Jay eating out of Jack's hand
Excavator moving huge tree rootball
Tree down...Jack waiting to saw
Making road wider
Our land looking toward the road from the camper
Beaver Dam...huge!
Beaver
Camp Robber taking bread off my shoe
Woodpeckers
Feeding off spruce beetles...feeding each other
Gray Jay aka Camp Robber
Pocketmail/calling site
At the swimming hole
King salmon in Montana Creek
2 miles from us~no fishing
Denali
View from 1 1/2 miles away from us
Alaskan Range~Denali on right
Going to Talkeetna from our road...about 1 1/2 miles from us
Fireweed
At Moose Dropping
What happens when you carry around and drinking from the silver 'cup' for two days...
The Simpletones
Another awesome group...fiddle player had just joined
Mountain Waxwings at Moose Dropping
Awesome singing!
Where the moose droppings land
Person's number who is closest to center wins $1000, etc.
Bag holding droppings
Painted white with black numbers
It says it all...
One of many hanging plants
Downtown Talkeetna during Moose Dropping Festival
It's raining~it's Chrysa sitting under an umbrella
One of our few birds
Fire-ring (from Cabela's)/wooden turner Jack made/bench Jack designed
Outhouse will be to the right off the gravel
Bartlett Earth Station
Timmy T.'s not-dead bee!
Sandhill Cranes in Schnabl drive
In Cindy's yard
Back of German-made vehicle
German-made vehicle~Paris to Dakar race
In WalMart's parking lot in Anchorage July 19, 2007
Hannibul
Half Yak/bull
Boots, Lindsay's 4 mo. old puppy
Shoulda been named 'Expresso'...(short legs=not fast...coffee shop)
Lindsay Schnabl at Ninilchik rodeo
Tera Schnabl at Ninilchik rodeo
Old boat at 'Russian' Ninilchik Village
Immature and bald eagles~Ninilchik River
Old boat~Seldovia
Old sailboat~Seldovia
Old boardwalk ~Seldovia harbor
Pre-1964 earthquake harbor
Seldovia Harbor
Jellyfish/seaweed~Seldovia Harbor
Seldovia Harbor
Elephant Rock~Kachemak Bay
Mt. Iliamna~Kachemak Bay
Sea otter
Gull Island~Kachemak Bay
Puffin
Gull Island~Kachemak Bay
Eagle on Homer Spit~Kachemak Bay
Homer Spit and Kachemak Bay
Mt. Augustine~Cook Inlet from Homer Spit 'overlook'
Mt. Iliamna~Cook Inlet from Ninilchik
Mt. Redoubt~Cook Inlet from Ninilchik beach
Russian Orthodox Church~Seldovia
Russian Orthodox Church~Ninilchik
Kenai River~Sterling Highway
Summit Lake~Seward Highway
Fire just west of Shad/Misty's
Resurrection Bay ~ Seward
WWII bunker
Sean & Steve cleaning rockfish
Humpback's tail
Stan with his catch
Harbor seal at Sealife Center~Seward
Boats on Resurrection Bay~Seward
Jack and Emmy Mae
Fox in park
Sat down and posed for us
Baby ground squirrels
Denali & Alaska Range
Denali
Chrysa
Showing Stan and Bobbi our land
Cruise ship
Bobbi, Stan, Chrysa, Jack
Resurrection Bay Cruise~Seward
Stan & Jack on Resurrection Bay Cruise~Seward
GU-11's (gulls)
Sea lions
Resurrection Bay~Seward
Bald eagle
Rockfish~'Black bass'/Red Snapper (Yelloweye)
That's not a tongue! It's the stomach coming out the mouth due to living in deeper water.
Jellyfish
Puffins
Starfish~Sealife Center
Stan and son, Steve
On the way to the fishing grounds
Resurrection Bay~Seward, AK
Seward dock from Ray's
U-shaped valley carved by glacier
Enormous sleeping blonde grizzly~Denali
Denali~Alaska Range
Gas mileage going up Top of the World
SS Keno~sternwheeler in Dawson City
Built on permafrost in Dawson City
Top of the World highway from 'the Dome'
Tailings~Looking up Bonanza Creek
Down the Yukon River from 'the Dome'
Jack, Bobbie, Emmy Mae, Stan gazing over the Yukon River
Emmy Mae
Yukon ferry
View from Top of the World/flowers
Dredge on Taylor Highway~AK
Cow moose browsing
Chugach Mountains on Glenn Highway
Musk Ox at farm~Palmer
Whittier harbor
Ugly Rockfish
Water falls~Prince William Sound
Blackstone Glacier~Prince William Sound
Chrysa, Stan, Bobbie holding glacial ice
Jeff/Janell's Hewes OceanPro
Canadian Rockies
Steamboat Mountain
Indian Head Mounument~BC
Liard Hot Springs~BC
Stan/Bobbie's 'tin tent' & p/u
Moose over boardwalk~Liard HS
Old sour dough~Braeburn Cinnamon bun baker
Braeburn Cinnamon Buns~HUGE~M-M-M-M-M GOOD!
Five Finger Rapids on Yukon River, YT
Diamond Tooth Gertie's can-can girls~Dawson City, YT
Talkeetna purchase
We bought land about 15 miles SW of Talkeetna, Alaska...on e-bay...sight unseen! in 2006. I probably wouldn't recommend doing that for everyone, but we were blessed it was legal...and now have good neighbors in the north, too. In fact, one of our neighbors built a 250 foot road with a turn-around into our place and we could stay on our land part of the summer. Of course, then there was the flood with the washing out of the only good road leading to Malispina Loop, so had to wait to start back to MT for a few days until that was repaired and we could retrieve our cargo trailer, since we had left it on our land while down on the Kenai.
Wife of retired railroader, mother of four, grandmother of five, North Dakota preacher's kid, deep into my Christian faith (LCMS), church organist and secretary, second home in Alaska, PRO-LIFE
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