Rainforest Trail

Rainforest Trail is hard to describe....

I suppose maybe because when you enter it, there are so many feelings involved.

It's dark, wet, with a strong smell of mosses and skunk cabbage

When you stand still and make no sound, not even a breath,

there is silence.

Silence like none I have ever experienced before.

It's broken,

not from that of human cause

but from the laugh of a near by eagle

That silence of the forest

I remember it.

There is no place like Rainforest trail.

The trees tell their stories,

maybe not with words

But surely with their size and with their destruction

Uprooted, split, and dead.

But the food for so much life to come.

Nothing goes to waste, nothing misused

All things working together.

There is no place like Rainforest trail.

For I will go there again

Skunk Cabbage

Skunk Cabbage

Dear Heart

Rockweed (Fucus distichus)

Mussels and Barnacles

Barnacles and kelp

Blaze

My new best friend.

These pictures don't do him justice, he is a 120 pound Alaskan Malamute, and he stole my heart..

The first of many

My front yard

Across the street

When will it sink in?

To those of you that may know about my recent opportunity, I will be leaving to Juneau Alaska, April 9th for six months... To those of you that didn't know this... You now know... :)

Things are coming together and almost to a close here in Los Angeles. I have said many good byes already, but for some reason, it's just not hitting me... I keep telling myself, "I am moving to Alaska, I am moving to Alaska." Only then I start to feel the way I think I should... but that feeling is soon to disappear. It will come I am sure, when I am on that plane Friday morning, heading to a place I never pictured I would be going to.

My Goal is to keep this blog updated on a once a week, or once every other week (keeping my expectations semi low, so I don't fail completely) bases, so there is a place for those of you who would like to know what's going on and to see some of the images I will capture as I experience this place we like call Juneau Alaska.