A dream come true…

Last night I dreamt about Lynxton. He kept trying to get through doors that he was not supposed to go through, because there was danger on the other side. No matter how many times I would tell him, as soon as I turn my head he would be right back at the door trying to open it, trying to go through. He kept trying to play with electrical appliances and such, turning knobs pressing buttons. No matter how many times I would tell him, he kept at it. Then I got up and made coffee and cooked oatmeal. After I had eaten, he got up. I put in another cup of coffee. He got interested in the coffee maker and wanted to push all the buttons. I told him not to. As long as I was looking and telling him no, he would not push the buttons. As soon as he thought I wasn't, well you can see right here… I'm on my way to Anchorage again, I'm stopped at a red light and at this light I make this post.

For the moment, I give up on the "real camera" post I have been working on for over an hour and put up this quick and dirty Instagram instead

Earlier this evening, I stated I would make a "real camera" post tonight, as a comparison of some of the same subjects I had shot with my iPhone and then Instagramed. The fact is, I have now been working on that post for well over an hour and it'll probably take me close to another hour to finish it! So I'm going to save it for later and just put this up from earlier in the day. It is Kalib and Jobe, playing with the airplanes in the swimming pool they had made in the old green canoe. It has taken me almost no time at all to make this post. And that's the big difference. I think I am on Instagram to stay. You will see though, when I finally put the other one up… oh hell I don't know what you will see… 

Reunion not with just one, but all three, posted on the move

Lavina's reunion with her sons also included Kalib and Lynxton, not just Jobe. So I decided I would try to get up another post before I left Anchorage and I would do it at stoplights. I might have succeeded too, but I was at only one stoplight for any length of time and there was some kind of police incident there, and since I photograph slices of life as I see from my car, I shot that with my "real" camera. Now I am in line at Taco Bell to get a snack before I go home so I am making my post from right here in this line.

Reunited

Reunited with his mom. The boys' parents showed up at our house, just before I left for Anchorage to see my friend. It was the first time they had seen their mother since her surgery on Wednesday. I prepared this post as I was walking from the hospital elevator to the parking lot. I am just about to my car. Before I open the door, I will post it.

Jobe waters the flowers – where are we?

When we loaded the boys into the car to bring them home on the day that Lavina went into surgery, I felt the heat and smelled the air and it reminded me of being a boy in summertime, living in the Lower 48. The weather this summer has just been unreal. It has not been like living in South-central Alaska at all. There were those 90° days in June and now for at least eight days running, maybe more, we have had temperatures either in the upper 70s or 80s. Our summers are just not like this. Yes, in a normal year we will get maybe five or six days in the 70s over the course of the whole summer, some summers not that much, some summers a bit more – but this? Where are we?

Jobe is right at home, watering flowers in the heat of summer. If he were to turn around, and walk to that gathering of bushes behind him, he could smell the roses. Alaska wild roses.