These are pictures that didn’t fit neatly into the previous chapters/categories but represent the Alaskan experience or my father. Kind of a mishmash, but I feel a need to share them.
Dog sled team on Muldoon Road 1959
Iditarod Race
Blanket Toss Fur Rendezvous 1959
Chugach Mountains 1959
First Christmas in Anchorage – finding the perfect tree
In our backyard – 1958
Backyard with neighbor
Homemade skating rink in backyard
Must be Easter – one of the few times you’ll see me in a dress – I was such a tomboy
Me – 1967
Plane wreckage Eagle River, AK 1966
Garden in neighbor’s back yard
Long summer daylight hours perfect for a vegetable garden
Mom loved growing flowers and Dad liked photographing them
Begonias in kitchen
California Poppies
Portage Glacier 1958
Portage Glacier 1958
Independence Pass Ski Area
Independence Pass Ski Area
Mt. Foraker – McKinley Park
Mom tagging along with Dad in Nome
Hides drying – Nome
Skinning an oogruk (seal) – Nome
Old skin boat – Nome
Rocket firing – Nike Missile Site 1960
Rocket firing – Nike Missile Site 1960
Rocket firing – Nike Missile Site 1960
Rocket firing – Nike Missile Site 1960
There is a Friends of Nike Site Summit if you’d like to learn more: http://www.nikesitesummit.net/
Volcanic ash from St. Augustine eruption 1971
Volcanic ash from St. Augustine eruption 1971
John on Vulcan Locomotive in West Somerset, England
Dad took a course in operating a locomotive
Last leg of the journey…….
