Maggie the Alaska elephant

Concerning the plight and public outcry of Maggie the elephant at the Anchorage Alaska Zoo.
This is a no brainer. Bees overwinter by huddling together in a tight formation. Instead of shipping Maggie off to the lower 48 I think we should just import about 5000 elephants so they can huddle together just like the bees do. Never will any of them be lonely and we can put a cute little tiara on Maggie so we can tell her apart. Since they will be creating a huge amount of feces we can just mix that in with the snow piles during the winter. The heat that the feces generates will help to keep the snow piles in the parking lots to a minimum thereby freeing up a lot of parking during the winter months. After the winter is over we can use the feces remains to build compost piles to fertilize the gardens for all the food we'll need to feed all the elephants and the circle is completed. See it'll all work out in the end, (so to speak).

I posted this on the Anchorage daily news , (ADN), blog today and felt I'd best put it here where it rightfully belongs before they delete me.

Sideways bear and the spider

Everytime we went eliptical the bear would shift sideways. G's you know. But lean he did and the spider residing on his head leaned as well; sometimes slipping around the front or back a little as if to keep hold. Everything would plane in as the little laughter quiets.

weekend in Port Llast

Sometimes you just have to get away. Went up to Port Llast last week. A canary took this picture. Amongst the fire, hail, and castings I was able to hear the camera snap. I turned in enough time to see it snatched by a Raven. An eagle swept in and started grappling with the raven over the camera. They were in some sort of wildly swinging airborn swirling chaos when the huge leathery winged thing dove in and tried to eat them all. The camera strap got snagged in the huge things beak. They fell to the ground and were all dazed long enough for me to grab the camera and run. I made Luskan about 2 days later, not without some small help from a dryad who knew her way better than I through a certain area.