Author: mfyancey
Ketchikan Totem Poles
The Alaska Rainforest Sanctuary has a resident totem pole carver. He learned to carve from his uncle. These totem poles were carved from red cedar…
Alaska – Ketchikan’s Alaska Rainforest Sanctuary
Holland America Lines offers several excursions for each port where we stop. We chose a hike in the Alaska Rainforest Sanctuary. Many trees were covered…
Alaska – Entering and Visiting Ketchikan
Our ship sailed into Ketchikan early Tuesday morning with partly sunny skies. There was still a bit of morning color as the fog lifted. …
Alaska Day 2 – Cruising the Beautiful Inside Passage
We woke up to the sound of a fog horn from our ship. You had to look down to see anything, but wake of the…
Alaskan Cruise Day 1 – Vancouver
Rose and I finally were able to take our Alaskan cruise. We started planning in 2019 and had the trip postponed twice due to Covid. …
Traverse City Botanical Gardens
Back in late June, we visited the Traverse City Botanical Gardens at the Historic Barns Park. We wandered around the grounds a bit and then…
Flower Close-Ups
I was inspired by the flowers in our front garden and pulled out my macro lens. I haven’t used this one for a while, so…
An Evening Visitor
We had an evening visitor last night. A young screech owl was sitting on the back of a bench on our porch at the cabin. …
Birds, Turtles, and Water Lilies
We finally got back on the lake this morning. It is going to be a warm day, so we wanted to get out early. We…
Flat Water
We are back at the lake and got out in the kayaks last evening with a friend. It was a wonderful evening to be on…