The Ghosts of Sleepy Hollow

"But all these were nothing to the tales of ghosts and apparitions that succeeded. The neighborhood is rich in legendary treasures of the kind. Local tales and superstitions thrive best in these sheltered long-settled retreats; but are trampled underfoot by the shifting throngs that forms the population of most of our country places.

Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap, and turn themselves in their graves before their surviving friends have traveled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no acquaintances left to call upon. This is perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear of ghosts, except in our long-established Dutch communities."

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Arrival

Photo credit from the interwebs

This time of year finds us watching more movies, if you have not noticed.  Arrival is more than a story about aliens that have arrived on earth. It is about time and the order in which we think everything happens in our lives. Light a fire in the fireplace and snuggle up for a good thought provoking story about where we are on our life timeline.

When a Warm Wind Blows

When a warm wind blows across Anchor-town our white landscape turns brown.  

Drive safe my friends and keep the rubber side down.

Trumpeter Swans

A cool fall morning spent watching the Trumpeter Swans that frequent Potters Marsh this time of year.

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First Things First

Habit first... effort later.  Start small for large gains.

High Five Friday for Yellow

If I have never shared with you my love of yellow, now is the time and place.  Yellow is light. Yellow is joy. Yellow, I high five your brightness.

High five Friday for yellow. May your day be bright.

Vertical Farming

Every now and again, I come across something inspiring, something that could be that change we are looking to achieve.  Here is that something... vertical farming using abandoned grain elevators, specifically the concrete circular shaped elevators.

Read this posting on Our Grandfathers Grain Elevators: A small Missouri company has big plans for idle elevators to serve as vertical farms. Click HERE.

And watch their video clip on vimeo. Click HERE.

Inspiring and thought provoking.

Earthquake ~ 4.6

Just a light shake at our home in Anchor-town but still worth noting.

Alaska Day

Photo credit ~ the interwebs

Below is the forward from the DICTIONARY OF ALASKA PLACE NAMES By Donald J. Orth GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER (first printing 1967 and reprinted in 1971 with minor revisions)

“At 3:30 in the afternoon of October 18, 1867, on the parade ground near Baranov's Castle in Sitka, an area of about 580,000 square miles of Russian territory was formally transferred to the United States; 92 years later this territory, Alaska, became the 49th State of the Union.

Alaska extends over an area one-fifth as large as that of the conterminous United States and is unbelievably rich in landscape and other natural resources, but it has comparatively few inhabitants. This, the largest State, also contains other extremes in geography; the highest point (Mount McKinley-20,320 ft.), the northernmost point (Point Barrow-71 "23' N), and relative to the Greenwich meridian, the westernmost point (Amatignak Island-1 79" 10' W), and the easternmost point (Pochnoi Point-179'46' E) in the United States.

The discovery of gold in Alaska in the 1890's caused the Geological Survey to undertake geographical exploration and geological and mineral-resource investigations in that remote territory. As the work progressed, the need was recognized for a names dictionary as an aid in preparing and publishing maps and reports on Alaska. In June 1900 Marcus Baker undertook the completion of a dictionary begun in 1892 by the Board on Geographic Names. The first "Geographic Dictionary of Alaska" was published in 1902 as Geological Survey Bulletin 187. A second edition, prepared by James McCormick, was published in 1906 as Bulletin 299.

Six decades have passed since the geographic names dictionaries of Baker and McCormick were published. Alaska has now been completely mapped at the scale of 1 : 250,000 and extensively mapped at the scale of 1 : 63,360. These maps provide a wealth of geographic-names information. Names in current use, as well as many names formerly in use, have been assembled by Donald J. Orth and his colleagues into a new and greatly enlarged edition of the geographic names dictionary. “

Written by W. T. PECORA, Director.

One More Before they Leave

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Lion

Photo from the interwebs

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.  From - IMDb

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Watch the movie, read the ending credits, and then consider the following.

Current populations:

Alaska 741,894

United States of America 323.1 million

India 1.324 billion

Overlay photos from thetruesize.com.

Meanwhile in Fairbanks Yesterday

Meanwhile in Fairbanks yesterday they received their second snow fall.  

To all my people ~ drive safe, and snuggle under a warm blanket.

The Best Way to Celebrate

The beer...

... the duck...

... the beef and crab...

... and the bread pudding!

The best way to celebrate the start of another orbit is with an early evening drive, a well prepared meal, the best bread pudding I have ever tasted, and seeing the bore tide roll up Turnagain Arm. However there is no photo of the bore tide as we were driving along the patch of road without turnouts and it does happen quite quickly.

Thank you Jack Sprat for the delicious meal, eating birthday supper here just might be our new thing.

Rising Strong ~ Brené Brown

My photo ~ Brené Brown's words

"Just because we didn’t measure up to some standard of achievement doesn’t mean that we don’t possess gifts and talents that only we can bring to the world. Just because someone failed to see the value in what we can create or achieve doesn’t change its worth or ours."

Brené Brown: Rising Strong

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More Fall Delight

Paterson

A quiet movie that has a peacefulness surrounding the characters. We learned a little something about ourselves as we followed Paterson going about his daily life. This movie is encouraging to those of us who create beauty in our own small way.

Pokemon Go

My inner Mugshot

Pokemon Go or Inflorescence (its true name) is the newly installed artwork outside the building where I work. It is a great piece of art that changes daily with Mother Nature, and I am looking forward to seeing it in the snow.

Happy Birthday Captain

Happy birthday Captain! Thank you for your love, your kindness, and the steadfastness of heart that you share with me each and every day. It really is the little tokens of love that add up over time, thank you for knowing that I like the ‘Cuties’ stickers, and saving them for me where you know I will find them.

Love you tons until the end of time!

Fall Delight

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The Only Way to Slim

Self-Esteem: The Only Way to Slim

"Losing weight is impossible unless we also enhance our self-esteem in a thousand and one small ways. Dietetics is a philosophy, a body of wisdom. Living well means looking for the meaning inherent in each moment of life; eating less is one of the most important ways of simplifying our lives."

Dominique Loreau, L'art de la Simplicité: How to live More with Less

Just a Few Ingredients

"And there are just a few "ingredients" needed to make a healthy human - real, whole, fresh food, nutrition (vitamins and minerals), light, water, air, sleep, movement, rhythm, love, connection, meaning, and purpose."

The Blood Sugar Solution: Mark Hyman, MD