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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been on vacay for a bit - Grand Canyon, a Bluegrass festival, then a family reunion in Twisp, WA. Back to work on Thursday (just in time for the "where's my PFD?" people.) I've never seen a reflection I didn't like and/or photograph, so in that spirit, "up the road" from Twisp:

Bright blue sky with wispy clouds (some Mare's Tails) and the low rolling hills of Eastern Washington, tan/brown at the end of a dry summer. There are a couple of evergreen trees on the left, with grasses in the foreground. The landscape bends like an arm around the lake, which reflects the sky in the still water.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And to all a good night...

Orange and yellow bands of a sunset stretch above the low, cloud-shrouded mountains, with small spits of land cropping out into the channel. The color are reflected in the still water, glowing tangerine amid the gray. The breakwater can be seen in the middle of the pic, tall pines are silhouetted on the right.

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Autumn colors don't last long in Interior Alaska, but while we've got them it is gorgeous. Sunday morning FAA webcam view at Central (Gwich'in Dene country, northeast of Fairbanks) after some ground fog had dissipated. #akwx #Autumn #AlaskaSky @spiraledu.bsky.social @seakgal.bsky.social

FAA webcam image from Central, Alaska at 940am AKDT Sunday September 6. Golden birch trees and green spruce are in the foreground. Blue sky above with some thin low clouds on the right side of the image.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The cool thing about cloud pictures is that no two are ever alike. The snowflakes of landscape photography.

Wonderful gray/white clouds in dramatic puffs in front of dark gray mountains and the ocean channel at low tide. The bright blue sky can be seen here and there through the clouds, which seem to be close enough to touch the ocean.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Pretty sure that the 1st place I lived in Tok is gone. Just so hard to comprehend.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I hate how pervasive it is. Also VERY glad I'm no longer an English teacher.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A friend of mine finished a book last year. I wanted to be supportive and bought a copy. (It wasn't good.) She told me just a month ago that she had "wanted to see if she could write a book with AI." If I'd known before I spent my $$! You think you know people... Grrr!

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've done sauerkraut, kimchi is on my list!

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Seriously, can beer be far behind? I think I might get hooked on fermentation. (My first batch of kombucha, 2nd fermentation for bubbles & flavor.)

5 glass beer-style, long-neck bottles with air-tight stoppers filled to the top with amber liquid. There are bits of apple present at the top of each bottle.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The salmon will start dying without ever getting up a stream. Ugh.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Summer is at the halfway point...or just a smidge over. 😉

Fireweed flower in sharp relief against a blurred green background. The hot pink blossoms are open halfway up the stalk.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I knit in good times and bad - we lost our doggo a couple of weeks ago so I really doubled down on my knitting. It's a good distraction. Halloween/Samhain is my favorite time of year and I'll be wearing this a LOT. Great pattern by Joan Rowe. #knitsky #knitting

A knit hat in stranded color work. The background is pale peach, light maroon, matte green and orange. Black yarn shows two witches stirring a cauldron with bats flying around their heads and a raven in a tree looking on.

A knit hat in stranded color work. The background is pale peach, light maroon, matte green and orange. Black yarn shows a witch flying on a broomstick with 2 ghosts flying in the air behind her, looping around a tree. There is a jack-o-lantern below her.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I did a thing while in ABQ. Ravens figure prominently in both the Native culture of the desert SW and the rain forest of Sitka. My ancestry is Celtic, hence the woven moon. I have a large tribal phoenix on my left arm with a sun in purple and turquoise. They balance each other nicely.

Tattoo on the upper, outside arm of a raven sitting on a branch with a few leaves, facing to the right. There is a sliver of a moon behind in a C shape, made of ribbons of purple intertwined. There are five, 4-point stars in turquoise around the moon and raven.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Yes - almost every year there are a few around & caught.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm flying to ABQ today and was upgraded to 1st on my Seattle/ABQ leg. I'm thrilled! Usually I'm upgraded to 1st from Sitka to Juneau. 🤣

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Blast from the past. Mt. Drum in the distance.

An empty road, disappearing into the distance with a mountain directly in the middle of the pic. The road leads up to it. Snow is piled sharply on each side of the highway, the road itself is clear. There are stunted trees on either side. The sky is pale blue with a few strands of clouds low to the mountains.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our hearts drop when we first hear of something like this! Yes, we're so grateful that everyone walked away.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Bronwyn, repeat after me: I will never, ever knit with yarn doubled ever again. I will CERTAINLY never knit with yarn doubled when it is a splitty catastrophe. I will certainly, AS ALL THE GODS AS MY WITNESSES, never knit itty, bitty baby sweater sleeves on DOUBLE POINTED NEEDLES with said yarn.

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The Alaska Current @thealaskacurrent.com · 20/06/2026

Deep in the Tongass, accessible only by boat, a century-old printing press sat silent for seven years. The nearly one-ton Vandercook press at Sea Pony Farm near Pelican has been restored by the Sitka Conservation Society and is being used to connect art, conservation and community.

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Pressing Silence: Sea Pony Press - The Alaska Current

Deep in the Tongass, enshrouded by the West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness, sits a behemoth.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Reposting to get the name right: False Hellebore up on Harbor Mountain. (Man, I'd love an edit button!)

Large, flat-leafed plant. The leaves have ridges that undulate through the leaves, which furl together than fold open. Sand dunes...ocean waves...

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Yep - I was just coming to correct my naming! lol I was told incorrectly.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Another view of the ocean from Harbor Mountain, this time with a Mountain Hemlock stealing the show. Love those twisty trees.

A large, twisty mountain hemlock in front of a panoramic view of the ocean. Small islands dot the interior while Mt. Edgecumbe would be visible on the right if not for a bank of clouds!

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It was a hike, but I came home and iced my knee so it's all good! I'm a determined cuss when there's something I want to do. Damn the consequences!

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Never gets old. The view from atop Harbor Mountain in Sitka.

Looking down a mountain toward an ocean channel that winds past small, fir covered islands. The ocean is blue as is the sky. On the lower left you can see a cruise ship, docked.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm so sorry. I've been there with my son. No words can describe the anxiety and heartbreak.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

There's something beautiful about a brand new pack of office supplies...at least to office supply nerds like myself. And - happy Pride Month!

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

True! It was particularly grim when they took out the center seating. I usually ended up sitting on the floor, so I saw a lot of people's legs.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'm a double Virgo and can confirm. Trigger me and I'll Virgo the hell outa ya. LOL

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

You just can't go wrong with that backdrop.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The beautiful view from Sitka's new airport waiting room. SUCH an improvement on the old facility. (Now they just need to get the baggage area done!)

Early morning photo of Mt. Egdecumbe in the distance, rivulets of snow running down the caldera. There is an Alaska Airlines plane in the foreground on the right, sitting on the tarmac. An ocean channel is in the middle. The sky is pastel peach and pale, pale blue.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My dentist just told me I have an unusually deep, square jaw. If I'm punched hard, it probably wouldn't break. Good to know for my next bar brawl.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

That's the best part of living in the SE...rain is (almost) always on the horizon. (It needs to hurry!)

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It hit 80F in Sitka today. I think I'm just gonna lay down & die... Winter. I. Need. Winter! (But not the snow. No. Snow!)

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Once in a while I really miss living up there. Lots to see and the road trips are epic!!

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Exactly. Life is too short for unenjoyable books! I felt bad 'cause my undergrad is in English and I taught English literature, but I just couldn't with some. Unpopular opinion: I could never get through Tolkien, despite being a huge fantasy nerd.

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

16. But like you, there are several more I really *tried* to read and just couldn't. 🤷‍♀️

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Good point - for about a month it was that way for us also. We were lucky it was only a few weeks!

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The season of "using the back porch as a fridge" has officially closed in Sitka. I enjoy spring, but I miss the extra space!

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

haha - you and I posted at the same time!

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Come on - do it for the kids! 💪

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Bronwyn @seakgal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Alaskans: The last day to apply for the PFD is tomorrow, 3/31. Spare yourself the pain and regret that comes with April 1st.

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