Well it's about 12 degrees here today with a slight wind 'chill'

We were told when we were touring Glacier Bay that the different colors in the glaciers are because they melted and then iced up again. That's why you have all different striations. a The dark colors are the ground that was picked up as they moved. Here's a better description:

by Mark Dubovoy
The bluish streaks in some Icebergs are caused by the the refreezing of meltwater which fills crevasses formed in the glacier (that creates the Iceberg) as it creeps over land. In other cases, the crevasses or holes (full of air) turn a deep blue. We will explain why this happens below.

Old Icebergs go through hundreds of thousands of years of compression and sometimes ongoing thawing and refreezing of the ice. As you go deeper and deeper into a glacier, the weight of the ice and snow above increases dramatically. As this pressure increases, the air that was originally trapped by the falling snow is forced out. As this happens, the reflective surfaces of our "snowflakes" get “crunched together” and in some cases can completely disappear. Since most of the reflective surfaces within this kind of iceberg have been eliminated, light hitting this iceberg no longer "bounces" off of millions of tiny mirrors. Instead, light is forced to travel through the Iceberg and penetrate deep enough to either find some internal surface to reflect back from or penetrate all the way through the iceberg.

here's his whole description, if you interested:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/blue-icebergs.shtml

Wow, the center of the flower really has a nice flowing design to it!

Thanks!

Actually, it wasn't as cold there as it is here right now. Are you ready for the storm Sunday?

Glacier Bay, Alaska,

I don't know exactly about the mountains

We're going to get your weather over the weekend!

Maui, sunset, after a luau

I love the first shot - like looking up at the stars and all the possibilities!

It's getting really cold here ... reminds me of Alaska!

The last picture is from the plane ride up there.

Her buck was in the background, but he was very shy...

I love tomatoes, too ;-)

Well that's pretty horrible! There's a cat that skulks around here and I don't know where he comes from but he's a snooty thing and when I try to scare him away he just looks at me like I'm bothering him. My son had 3 cats and none of them were as nasty at that one.

Thanks. I really was heartbroken when I discovered that they were gone. Not the nicest side of nature, but nature, nonetheless...

This doe took about an hour to get used to us and then she foraged around for the rest of the afternoon

Wow, you really have to look to see the babies ... what are they? They blend right in!