Colleen Easley lives in Olympia, WA with her husband Dale and 2 cats. Photography has been her hobby for 40 years. Currently she is working on a 365 project which requires that she take at least one photo every day and publish it to her blog. You may follow her on Twitter and/or Facebook by clicking the links below. To see all the photos of her 2010 project, click the link below under LINKS.
03.19.10The Iditarod is really winding down now. Only a few mushers remain on the trail which makes for very little work for the race stats room. I had the chance to get out this afternoon for a sort walk around the south side of Lake Hood with my friend, Ann Dimond. We stopped just outside the hotel to watch as more dropped dogs were being unloaded from the dog truck after being flown in from the trail and then we continued on up the lake.
We stopped to watch a couple hard at work trying to dig their ski plane out of the ice. It seemed pretty obvious that they hadn’t used the plane very much recently and the skis were frozen solid into the ice. I’m not sure if they were wanting to go somewhere or if they just wanted to get the plane freed so they could move it off the lake before the lake ice breaks up.
As we got to our turn-around point I noticed this great view of our hotel. The Chugach Mountains are in the background and the foreground is the ice and snow covered Lake Hood.
Although it was a short walk, it was very invigorating. It felt so good to be out in the sunshine with temperatures over freezing. I think spring is definitely on the near horizon for Anchorage.
Nikon D90
with Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S ED VR II Zoom Lens
at 135mm, 1/2000s, f/5.6, ISO 200
Millennium Hotel and Chugach Mountains
Beautiful. Now I know I need to come back.