Jealous of Alaska

Everyone keeps telling me how jealous they are of our trip north, and I understand why--it was so fun and so beautiful. So here are more pictures! I won't caption each one; I think most of them don't need explication, except for the eagle shot, which was shot at dusk on a cloudy day with such low light that my camera jacked the ISO to 5000 and turned out a compositionally lovely photo made from dots of color the size of golf balls. I Photoshopped it (by posterizing), but it's obviously included just to show you the eagle. :) I'll share stories soon; I just have to figure out how I want to write them...

Mushrooms of Alaska's Great RV Parks

We got back from Alaska on Monday night. It was great in almost every way (the RV camper's battery--batteries, actually--dying in the middle of the night was decidedly not great). Everyone keeps asking if we saw a moose, or a bear. No, I didn't, but the mushrooms blew my fuh-rickin' MIND, y'all! They were all over one campground on Cooper Lake, and I fell deeply in love, quickly. I mean, look at them. How can you not love them??

Some were fat and twirly like skirts.

Some were so delicate and pale, like little forest ghosts.

 Some were hot and flashy. And probably deadly.

Some looked they were in the middle of a fireworks display.

Some were shy...

Some were lonely.

Some looked like they'd be bullies, shovin' all the poor dirt around.

Some were huge and weird and huggy with each other.

Look how crazy this is! Have you ever seen anything like it?? Screw moose!

But this one, this one, was my absolute favorite. I got three shots of him before Ellie kicked him right in the face. He fell over, but I put him back, like the pecan tree. :)

I know these aren't the photos you probably wanted to see first, but too bad. This is what you get! Obligatory nature, family and camper shots to follow soon, after you have had time to fully absorb the incredible awesomeness of the mushrooms of Alaska.