SNOW FALLS: Anchorage

House Sitting

The view from the back door.

View from the front porch.

PINNIPEDIA PHOCIDAE

PINNIPEDIA PHOCIDAE

HARBOR SEAL Phoca vitulina richardsi

Yin, 4th Trine, Fixed Element Water

ARCTIC ZODIAC 12 YEAR CYCLE OF THE SEAL:

1923 1935 1947 1959 1971 1983 1995 2007 2019 2031

Honest, gallant, sturdy, sociable, peace-loving, patient, loyal, hard-working, trusting, sincere, calm, understanding, thoughtful, scrupulous, passionate, intelligent. Can be naïve, over-reliant, self-indulgent, gullible, fatalistic, materialistic.

Order: Pinnipedia

Pinnipeds are seals, sea lions, and walruses

Family: Phocidae

Phocidae includes all true seals. True seals lack external ear flaps; have a stout, round body; and are unable to rotate their hind flippers.

Genus species: Phoca vitulina

Subspecies: richardsi, vitulina, concolor, mellonae, stejnegeri

Common name: harbor seal, common seal

Fossil Records:

The earliest phocid fossils date back 12 to 15 million years.

Ancestral phocids gave rise to modern harbor seals, which appeared in the North Pacific two to three million years ago when the Bering Strait formed.

The skeleton and limb structure of pinnipeds show that the ancestors of harbor seals once were able to walk on land. Scientists, however, have not found fossil evidence to identify a common ancestor with living land mammals.

TURNAGAIN ARM

Beluga sculpture at Bird Point.

FIDDLEHEAD BUBBLE NET BITS

JETSAM JEWELS by Kari Glass

wave whipped

weathered washed and worn

salt scraped sea glass

wire wrapped wound and spun

twisted tangled tatted steel

Coming together soon for the ROSE COLOURED GLASS BUBBLE NET ASSEMBLAGE by Kari Glass and Robin Rosemond for THE ANCHORAGE ARCTIC ZODIAC ART SHOW at snow city cafe 2 December 2011 located on the corner of 4th Avenue and L Street in Anchorage Alaska.

Dec 2, 2011

5:30 - 8 PM

First Friday Anchorage Art Walk

ARCTIC ZODIAC

PERFORMANCE ART OPENING

Marion Call, Brian Hutton, Mark Murro

and

The Elly Maze

MASKS: faces in strange places

RIGGING: Crosby Wire Rope Clips

Never saddle a dead horse. Unlike the photos below the U-bolt should be applied over the dead end of the wire bolt. Also the wire clips should never be applied over coated wire rope. Installation Instructions Step 1. Refer to Table 1 (below left) in following these instructions. Turn back specified amount of rope from thimble or loop. Apply first clip one base width from dead end of rope. Apply U-Bolt over dead end of wire rope – live end rests in saddle (Never saddle a dead horse!) Tighten nuts evenly, alternate from one nut to the other until reaching the recommended torque. Step 2. When two clips are required, apply the second clip as near the loop or thimble as possible. Tighten nuts evenly, alternating until reaching the recommended torque. When more than two clips are required, apply the second clip as near the loop or thimble as possible, turn nuts on second clip firmly, but do not tighten. Proceed to Step 3. Step 3. When three or more clips are required, space additional clips equally between first two - take up rope slack - tighten nuts on each U-Bolt evenly, alternating from one nut to the other until reaching recommended torque. Figure 4. If a pulley (Sheave) is used, in place of a thimble add one additional clip. Clip spacing should be as shown. Wire Rope Splicing Procedures: Figure 5. The preferred method of splicing two wire ropes together is to use interlocking turnback eyes with himbles, using the recommended number of clips on each eye (See Figure 1). Figure 6. An alternate method is to use twice the number of clips as used for a turnback termination. The rope ends are placed parallel to each other, overlapping by twice the turnback amount shown in the application instructions. The minimum number of clips should be installed on each dead end (See Figure 2). Spacing, installation torque, and other instructions still apply. IMPORTANT Apply first load to test the assembly. This load should be of equal or greater weight than loads expected in use. Next, check and retighten nuts to recommended torque. In accordance with good rigging and maintenance practices, the wire rope end termination should be inspected periodically for wear, abuse, and general adequacy

ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (ACPA)

ANC PARKING GARAGE: top level

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: out to lunch

BOTH WAYS NOW

BOTH WAYS NOW: Fall photos by Kari Glass

2011 Anchorage Alaska

ALERT BAY THIS MORNING

Photo by Pat Davis