Cookout at -4 F. (-20 C.)

The menu: pepper crusted grilled garlic pork chops, scalloped potatoes, organic red chard with garlic, all complimented by Abyss barley wine. The food and the barley wine were consumed indoors with the heat on.

Driveway

from ADN.com:

• Anchorage: Sunrise at 10:14 a.m., sunset at 3:42 p.m., for five hours and 28 minutes.

• Fairbanks: Sunrise at 10:59 a.m., sunset at 2:41 p.m., for three hours and 42 minutes of sunlight.

• Ketchikan: Sunrise at 8:12 a.m., sunset at 3:18 p.m. for seven hours and five minutes; that's assuming few enough clouds to actually see any sun.

Hoar frost

Well, it's been cool here (less than 10 F.) and fog moved in a couple of times last week. The result was hoar frost. It is indeed a winter wonderland. Everything is luminous. Snapped this pix after work tonight.

AIFF - Anchorage International Film Festival

I'm all fired up for this years festival. Hell, bring on the girls from Iceland (oops I'm getting carried away - that's a different website) .

AIFF kicks off this Friday with a screening at 1900h (7 pm) of Camille at The Bear Tooth followed up with a gala party at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum at 2100h (9 pm until ??).

Check out the AIFF website. China Town is the lead "old time feature" - Hey Faye Dunaway is hot. But "daddy" is John Huston, nuff said. But don't let the old stuff distract you from the "new stuff." Film makers from around the world are participating. If you miss the Festival this year you'll regret it for the rest of you life.

THE SNOW IS DEEP ON THE GROUND

The snow is deep on the ground.
Always the light falls
Softly down on the hair of my beloved.

This is a good world...
And war shall fail.
God shall not forget us.
Who made the snow waits where love is.

The sky moves in its whiteness
Like the withered hand of an old king.
God shall not forget us.
Who made the sky knows of our love.

The snow is beautiful on the ground.
And always the lights of heaven glow
Softly down on the hair of my beloved.

--Kenneth Patchen

Anchorage Film Festival Time

Yup, crank up the sound, turn on the electricity, haul in the babes from Iceland (I wish and I guess I'm getting carried away). The Anchorage International Film Festival is almost ready. Come one, Come all. Open your eyes. Bask in the night. Drink it up. Ahhhh......

Another old NYC pix

Man or woman?
You tell me.... People can seem strange and I love it. After all, it's the diversity that makes life, and photography so interesting.

I love Spenard

A foggy night in Anchorage. Spenard is one of the last vestiges of "old Anchorage." Rock it to the moon.

Road trip to Fairbanks

On the edge

The last days of summer.

June parade in New York City

An old picture from my old home town.

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A favorite poem

Only Cherries?

They didn't want me around
Said I couldn't have no cherries
Or watch them pick cherries
Or even stand near the table
Where one of those Kultur-Kookie-Klucks
With the big fat legged-smile
Was fixing to pop a nice red cherry
In on top of his gold spoon
You know I don't like those people
Who act as if a cherry
Was something they personally thought up

Kenneth Patchen - 1957

First snow

The snow came early this year.