Winter Beauty

Please pardon the long absence!  Christmas and New Year’s has come and gone and I hope yours was blessed and filled with family and friends.  We were able to travel home to Minnesota for the holidays and it was wonderful.  Since the last time I posted we have moved into a place of our own, a condo on Douglas Island.  We love it.  It is such a comfort to be surrounded by our own belongings.  When we first discussed this move, we talked about the possibility of renting a fully furnished apartment.  I’m so glad we didn’t!  There is something so reassuring in the familiarity of our own things, whether it be a valued piece of artwork (goodbye Taz!), a beat-up old bookshelf, or a shabby, well-loved blanket.  We are settled in and finally feel that we have “landed” here in Juneau.  The emotional roller coaster of the job search continues for me, but I’m feeling hopeful about a particular lead and hope to have some good news soon.  In the past week we have been buried in snow!  We watched the past month as Anchorage and Prince William Sound to our north and Seattle to our south received a record amount of snow and now it’s apparently our turn.  I went for a long walk around our neighborhood here on Douglas Island today to enjoy the snow.

The view from our balcony…

Near our driveway…
Douglas Island Harbor…
Sandy Beach…
Even ravens like to play in the snow!…