Unique problems require unique solutions.  Here is something that I'll bet none of you from the "lower 48" (or anywhere else in the "temperate zone," for that matter ( :) )) have ever seen before---a gutter spout heater!!  :) :)

      4/6/05 Two consecutive pictures of absolutely gorgeous "alpenglow."

      I have GOT to get a better camera!!!!

      4/8/05 Warning!! Handicapped people prone to spontaneous human combustion in this parking space.  :) :) I hadn't realized at the time that the photographer's reflection (me :) ) was also caught in the picture.  -That's a cool effect.  :)

      4/11/05 This is just a picture of the cool way that the snow melted.  This thing didn't last long---it fell over by the time I came out that evening.

      4/13/05 This one is kinda' funny.  "Digital Design" had a technical problem, and couldn't print out my poster for the 2005 RF Ionospheric Heating Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  (I have to get a link up about that one. . . .  -One thing at a time. . . .) So, I had to go over and have it printed out on the brand-new printer in the O'Neill building.  They study fish, 'n stuff---and the building is jokingly called by peeps in the GI (Geophysical Institute), the "school of fish." :) :)

      AN-Y-WAY, this is what they did with the packaging materiels the printer came in.  I thought that this was cool.  :) (This was only the second day since the printer had been shipped, 'n stuff.  )

      4/14/05 Yes, Virginia---there really is a Cthulu:

      :)

      4/20/05 I had never seen this before---pre-formed sections of railroad track, stacked atop of one another.  Choo-choo's in Alaska are really cool; they have numbers like, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004. . . .  :) (Hmmmm. -"Trainspotters" might become VERY bored. . . .  :) ;) )

On to more Alaska pics.