Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Fun Snow Day

Kathy's rental with a covering of snow

She also learned not to only have one scraper with the little snow broom on it if you leave it in the car and it snows 8" overnight. She's sweeping the car with my broom and, yes, you really should remove all or most of the snow because otherwise it flies off in someone's face or even up on your windshield and is very distracting.

Gee, can you tell they hadn't plowed the street yet? Yes, honest, there is a road under all that snow.

It was looking a little better down at the bottom of the hill as we turned onto Nelson.

A shot out the window of the Family Restaurant where we had breakfast.

Our wanderings took us past Wasilla Lake, where I made Kathy play tourist.

This shot is for our friend Betty Waldon, whose winter gear would be a perfect match for this outfit we found in a thrift store. Well, Kathy would need some sequins, I guess, to match up to Betty.

In Pandamonium Bookstore's coffee shop. I was actually shooting the lack of a visible mountain out the window but liked the silhouette effect.

We wound up in Knik, too. Here's the Nomad across from the Knik Bar.

No, I don't know if it means this week or was from last week, but Hobo Jim obviously hasn't forgotten the Knik Bar. I mean, after all, he supposedly wrote "Redington's Way" in the bar!

Anyone for a picnic on Knik Lake? Actually, it might literally be ON the lake, not sure, but the posts behind are left overs from the Knik 200 that took off from the lake back in January.

We went on out the road to about, oh, mile 11-15 where there is a pull-over with a great view of Knik Arm. During this time of year, it often looks like this, frozen with jumble ice. Kathy shot some video that is on Facebook (actually, we shot lots of video this day that will eventually get uploaded) and you can see the water flowing toward the bottom of the picture.


Back in Wasilla, we made a quick stop behind the Dorothy Page Museum to not only see the museum but the area to the left of Kathy, Old Wasilla.

I have no clue whose dog truck, but we've seen quite a few. Might just be locals out and about or handlers on their way to pick up dropped dogs, but just another fun part of life in the Mat-Su Valley.

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