2025 Photo of the Day

 Scott and Marty Enjoy the Robert Frost Trails

 

 I think I see a little Marty in this guy.  Summer 1985.  Forty years ago.

 

 A pretty flower growing wild in the grasses at Catamount Community Center.  This flower is the same Valerian used in herbal medicine. 

 

 A baby wren taking his first trip out of the nest

 

               The first fawn we've seen all season

 

 

 This little baby Common Yellowthroat seems to have lost his mother.

 

 This mouse has taken over the wren birdhouse

 Don is collecting flower samples to learn what's in bloom when, and what his bees may be feeding on. This was one page of this week's tw0-page collection

 When you live near an glacier your water raft is an Ice chunk This picture was taken near the Aialik Glacier in Aialik Bay in the Kenai Fjords 0f Alaska

 

 

 There's a lot of wild and snowy Alaska we saw as we flew out on Thursday evening

 

 

 Tiger Rockfish. The oldest reported rockfish is 116 years old. This was caught in the waters off the coast of where we are staying.

 And we actually found one. The photo will appear when I get home and can get it off my camera.

 Right in front of our hotel room

 Only 1%of the visitors to Denali get to see its peak. We are now part of the one percent.

  What I see while lying on my bed at Denali Lake View Hotel. Otto Lake  

 Talisman Rose

 our birdfeeder that is.

 This Tree Swallow doesn't like it when I look in on her nest box.

  Maurine made this beautiful flower crown for her friend's daughter, Daphne, to wear in the play The Secret Garden