Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?

Happy Monday and Martin Luther King, Jr. day. I hope everyone who was fortunate enough to have the holiday off got to enjoy their long weekend. Everyone else, my condolence, Scott is in the same boat. On the up side though, he’s working four ten hour shifts this week so we can have a long weekend this coming weekend. But to get in a ten hour day requires an early start so, 5am came too soon. I bought us a bag of coffee last week that had on the label “When served in bed, will wake the dead”… and it had a picture of a pirate skull on it. Perfect!

Yesterday was a cold snowy day here in Sitka so we tried to stay in most of the day. The snow was a really fine light snow but over twenty four hours it built up to about four inches—Arkansas still has us beat though. This morning was a much heavier snow until the sun came up then it turned to rain… which turned everything to slushy mushy nastiness. But I just looked out the window and can see ginormous hunks of snow pouring down again. We’ll see how it goes over night.

Today during one of the small weather breaks I took the bike down to the South end of the island to the totem park. There are some nice walking/running trials through the forest for people exercising themselves or their pets.

I did the loop stopping constantly to take pictures. I’m definitely bringing Scott back down there on Friday. It was really beautiful.  I walked out onto a deserted pebble beach at the end of the estuary and half expected a brown bear to come lumbering out of the woods for a snack. It was really peaceful. I was out there more than fifteen minutes and never saw anyone.

Now, given if I had been attacked by a hungry brown bear, I would have been up an estuary without a paddle, but what’s life without a little excitement of the unknown. –Well maybe I’m being a little dramatic (Me dramatic? Psh!). So, all the bears are in deep winter hibernation and I was in no danger, except from some mama bird who was really perturbed I was too near her nest.

All in all I feel like this is a more typical Southeastern Alaskan winter rather than the glorious sunshine we’ve had the last two weeks. But if this is it… I can handle it for sure!

Love and cheers,

S/A