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[ellenmillion]

She's not crawling yet, but OH so close. She is, in the meantime, rolling where she wants to go. The stair guard rail is being welded up this week.


Have I mentioned that she's an active baby? Constantly in motion! Also, I'm giving her that duck to play with a lot, and I'm going to try bringing it to the pool as a distractant. We gave her a bath in the sink last night, and she had a lot of fun, splashing around and not at all upset. So it's not JUST water. We're going to play in her swimsuit and water diaper tonight, just to get her comfortable with that, too. If I have my act together, I might get her to the pool with me some quiet morning.

And some non-baby photos of autumn in Alaska...


The flecks in the sky are leaves, falling. This was last week - they are all gone from the trees now.









(Prints of any of my photos are available, $12 each for 8x10, inquire for other sizes.)

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Coming from an environment with largely evergreen trees apart from the occasional exotic deciduous tree (generally fairly boring ones like oaks) I never really understood why people in your bit of the world call it 'fall' until I saw photos like those :)

My to-do list includes experiencing an autumn in the Northern hemisphere, preferably somewhere that the trees put on a really vivid dispay of colour :)

That and a winter christmas somewhere with snow and where they take it really seriously with the food and decortions and soforth. Maybe Switzerland or Germany or something :) Maybe one of the couch surfers I've hosted for Cristmas bbqs or picnics at the beach might do an excange and show me how they do it. That would be cool

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Heh! I never thought there might be a place where it *doesn't* 'fall.' You can always come to North Pole, which is a tiny town just south of here that takes Christmas Very Seriously. (If a little commercially!) It's got a 20 foot plastic Santa Claus out by the highway, and the lightpoles downtown are candy canes.

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the plasticy commercial side of christmas doesn't overly appeal to me, I was talking more about the traditions and cultural differences. And finally being somewhere that heavy, warming food and drinks have context (mulled wine and baked hams in the middle of summer don't work very well).

Plus I've only seen snow once in my life for all of half an hour :)