Raw Beauty

I am always blown away by the raw beauty of the State I live in.   Since I can remember water, snow, mountains where a place that brought joy to my soul.  I will jump in my car on a whim for a day's driving trip to see Alaska outside my window.   Either down Turnagain Arm to places south or up north to Talkeetna the jump off spot for mountain climbers that plan to scale Denali.

Winters are long. Summer are all too short.  The one constant of Alaska is its beauty is everlasting!

My phone or camera are never far from my hands to snap a picture of the variety of glorious things to photograph.

Flowers are always a favorite of mine:

Out of the Box

On Facebook every day I read through 100’s of posts.  I follow quite a number of folks and around 325 follow me.

One of those that I follow; a fellow artist over in the UK had a drawing of  

"Makanda doesn't want to get back in his box!"

I know exactly as he feels.  I had put myself in a box and once out of it I do not want to go back in.  I’m enjoying running around in my photo folders playing with different effects on various photos that are not my usual fare: they are not floras. 

 

These will also go into my sketchbook challenge because I love water.  There is a creek that runs through my back yard and, I’m just a mile from Cooks Inlet.  I’ve always lived near water – it must be part of my circle of lifetimes.  I search for places near water.  I’m happiest when I can visit places with water.