@refuge: Yessir; I'll actually be there quite often between the 13th and the 24th. We're having a vacation time at my work =)
@trip: The idea of having something over in your neck of the woods isn't anywhere near dead, and I still want to go to Alaska if for nothing else than to camp out for a while and spin in the woods.
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"it is something to be able to paint a picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look," thoreau