Foxy/Roxy in Crate

Foxy wishes that she had a crate! At one time all three of us were in the crate. I was trying to get the leash on Roxy and Foxy decides she wants to be in there, too.

Home, Sweet, Home

Here's a photo of Carole Helms and myself in Whittier.


Roxy Arrives at her New Home and has taken to the rug by the front door.


Here's Foxy, she's helping Roxy adjust.

Alaskan Travelers

Salmon, Otters, Bears

Prince Williams Sound

My journey on August 14th was aboard the Klondike Express the largest, fastest catamaran in Alaska. Prince William Sound is 2100 square miles of island fjords, carved by 15 million years of glaciations and surrounded by the Chugack Natinal Forest. It is America's largest intact marine ecosystem and North America's northern-most rain forest. It is the most active seismic region in the world. The trip took us near the epicenter of the 1964 Good Friday earthquake which measured 9.2 on the Richter scale.


The Klondike Express is a 137 - foot bessles which holds 342 passengerns on three decks and cruises at 38 knots. The ship is 34 feet wide and this eliminates much of the motion that causes seasickness. The Chugack Eskimos now known as the Alutiiq migrated into Prince Williams Sound 00about 7000 years ago as the glaciers began their retreat. They were water people whose lives centered on hunting and gishing. These early people created small villages and lived in wooden houses. They maded clothing from sea otter and seal, wove baskets from grass and pruce roots and used stones, bones, wood and shells to make tools.

Roxy at the Clayton Pet Lodging

Foxy returns home after being in Klamath Falls for six weeks. Here she hops in the cushioned bar stool at Clayton Pet Lodging. Moments earlier she met her new sister Roxy.

Here is Roxy. She weighs 18 pounds and is "taller" than Foxy. Her age is 1 1/2 years old. She's in the bottom of a decorative green half canoe. The view is a wall paper scene.



Roxy lived with 31 other brothers and sisters who were also neglected. Boggs Mountain Center received 11 of the dogs. Having lived separately from people, Roxy lacks acclimation to people and everyday living. Foxy's job is to bring her up to par.

Trip to Mt. Shasta

Photos of the local Museum and its new display of Native American Baskets of Northern California. A man had all these baskets in his garage for years. of course the storage conditions were poor, but the baskets survived. Now they are stored at a constant temperature with flowing air to safely perserve them


The Sacramento River has its beginning about 1 mile from this spot.



Views of the town of Mt. Shasta


Black Butt


Looking out from near the summit of Shasta.





Mount Shasta is not connected to any nearby mountain. It rises abruptly and stands nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) above the surrounding terrain. The mountain has attracted the attention of poets, authors, and presidents. Shasta was memorably described by the poet Joaquin Miller:

"Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California."[7]

Mount Shasta's west face. June 2009Naturalist and author John Muir said of Shasta:

"When I first caught sight of it over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley, I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since."[8]
Theodore Roosevelt said:

"I consider the evening twilight on Mt. Shasta one of the grandest sights I have ever witnessed."Views of Mount Shast




The top of Mt. Shasta


Wild Sweet Peas ( is that what they care called?)




Forest Fire that I witnessed as I drove back from a trip near Yreka and Hornbrook.