Neverfind Apartments

When I first moved to Anchorage 30 years ago I lived in the "Neverfind Apartments" owned by some folks with a sense of humor from Finally Found, Colorado.

My new apartment reminds of that place. Except this apartment building has no name.

Coat of Ice

If you look through the trees you can see a guy riding a bike on a sheet of ice. He's pulling a trellis type wheeled wagon. That helps steady him I think. I've seen him going both ways on the one-way frontage road. Once when I was driving it. He was in the middle of the road going the wrong way. I gave him plenty of room. He smiled and waved as I went by.

My View Today

In the top pic I photoshopped out the New Seward HWY and frontage road. The bottom pic is from inside my apt.

I block out the noise of highway by telling myself its a waterfall while listening to Radio Paradise.

Pansies in November

Pansies in November in Anchorage!

Grown from seed this is a hardy plant!

Took this pic on my friends deck today.

Brain Food

Thanks for the wakeup/job call! I had a great summer off from blogging, missed it a lot. Took a lot of pictures when I could charge my battery and had my camera in hand. When I had internet connection I joined facebook and hooked up with family and long lost friends. I love it! I no longer need to send a birthday card to my mom or my grandma needs to send me the bd card every year with 5 bucks in it. Its the frugal way now. We are all connected some way.

This is a pic I took out of my hotel window in Spenard. Thats the top of my duffle bag propped up. I came into Anchorage to get my 1999 Toyota Sienna get worked on. Took longer than I thought and in the meantime since then landed a job, got an apt and here I am blogging again.

From Anchorage and beyond!

Streak in Zero Degrees

Fur Rondy Downtown Sunday March 1, 2009

Ice Picnic at Elderberry Park

Elderberry Park is an old time favorite Anchorage city park of mine. It sits at the end of 4th Avenue and looks over Cook Inlet's Sleeping Lady mountain. I drove down the hill today to see what was new at the park. We used to love going down there to swing while watching the sunset. Those swings are now long gone and new ones (that are no where near as good) are now situated by the bathrooms which block the view and facing the wrong direction to enjoy the sunset while swinging. The flat cement building behind the blocks of ice are the bathrooms (same place they were 30 years ago) and the dinky swings are to the left of them.

Now, the ice in-cased picnic table maze was cool!

Traffic

Up on the Roof

Of the JC Penny parking garage this afternoon.

Chevy Circle

This guy puts on a good show.

Waiting to be sprung

Over halfway through February. Might be the shortest month of the year but in Alaska its the longest.

Over my head

Smoking Outside

Anchorage is kind to smokers and non-smokers alike. Providing butt cans is a nice touch.

Street Racer

Watch out for this bad boy buzzing around Anchorage.

Downtown Anchorage Only Minutes Away

On the freeeeway!

Cool FishTaxi purse.