Tundra Topics: Still Winter

Monday, April 14, 2008

Still Winter

So bright, (with all this snow & sunlight) We GOTTA wear shades
Though last year's early spring was a fluke, and it's normal to have cold and snow this late into the year, it still feels like it's time to be melted. I love all the great light (till 10:30 pm), but I miss the warm, muddy breezes of spring -- that probably most of you in the lower 48 are experiencing already.

But we still manage to go out and have fun -- here are some pictures of our walk with the puppies Sunday evening.

Esther and Fancy lookin' pretty at the top of the playground slide

How can you rock on a rocking toy when the snow is up to the bottom? Ha ha. Esther managed. :)

2 comments:

Bill Taylor said...: Hi Cate and Esther,

My name is Bill Taylor and my wife, Deb Dahl and I were teachers in Hooper Bay from 1980 - 1990. Both of our children were born there (actually in Anchorage)and I just wanted to say hello and say how much I apprecated your blog and all the pictures. The village sure has changed a lot since we left. It looks like in one of your pictures the 5-plex teacher housing is still standing... is that correct? Can I ask who Esther's dad is? My wife was the kindergarten teacher for 8 of our 10 years there and it seems like either I or Deb would have had Tuluk in class. I was the Basketball coach there for 10 years and I would love to get in contact with some of my former students. I'll close now and if you would like to please email me at dahltaylor@yahoo.com

Thanks and keep up the blog. I really enjoy it.

Bill Taylor; May 14, 2008 at 4:42 AM
Bill Taylor said...: Hello Cate and Esther,

My name is Bill Taylor and my wife Deb Dahl and I were teachers in Hooper Bay from 1980-1990. Deb mostly taught Kindergarten and I was the H.S Math and PE teacher along with being the boys. I tried posting another comment a bit ago and I am unsure if it went through or not so I figured I'd try another one after I logged into google.

I would love to talk more with you about the village and all the folks. I'm sure there are some people around that will still remember Deb and I. I love all your pictures and the descriptions and stories. Keep it up and please email me at dahltaylor@yahoo.com

Bill; May 14, 2008 at 4:48 AM

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Esther with Auntie Erin at the big spitting fountains at Millenium Park, Downtown Chicago

Pictures of Summer & Fall 2006 Travels

We had a great summer of travel -- which extended into a great fall of travel after the tragic burning of Hooper Bay school gave us a few more months of vacation. Esther was 1 and a half this summer, turning 2 just a few days after we returned to Hooper Bay in November of 2006. Below are pictures going backwards from our last trip of the fall (to visit Sunny in California), our road trip to homecoming at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, our train trip through Pennsylvania, New York, and Toronto, to our visit with Ya-Ya in Indiana, and our first campout ever in California!

Warren Wilson College Homecoming Celebration, October 2006

Esther and I took a ride on the draft horse wagon, around the farm valley. It was so great to take this road trip down to North Carolina and visit old friends (some of whom had never met Esther!) and show Esther all these places special to my heart. It was kind of wild to me that it was all new for her, that since she is so familiar to me and so are these places, that it was strange that she wouldn't know these places already. It was kind of wild to think of myself, without her, in college years earlier. It's really hard to imagine my life or myself without her, now. :)