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I’ve spent too many days at the desk attacking the piles of paper that accumulated while I was away.  I don’t mind being indoors during the ash fall from the volcano Mt. Redoubt, but today the sun came out, the mountains were visible and the temperatures climbed to 40 degrees Fahrenheit.  I had to go outdoors and check out the landscape.  Donning sunglasses and carbide ice cleats for my boots, I walked down onto the frozen lake and chose a path that brought me the opposite shore on the west end.  The sun felt good.

From there I followed a snowmachine trail through the woods and crossed over a slowly melting stream on the foot bridge.  On my way back I talked to some ice fisherman who just lost a fishing pole through the hole in the ice.  That had to be a pretty big fish!  My walk took an hour and it felt good to stretch my legs and immerse myself in the Alaska landscape again.  Birds are beginning to return and soon the snow will be gone, but for now this is one of my favorite times of the year.

Gail Niebrugge, landscape painter

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