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Packaging some fish to send to the north country!

Packaging some fish to send to the north country!
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"Perhaps we also love these glorious fish for the equally glorious places we chase them, and the wide variety of ways to catch them.

We cast to great waves of red salmon filling emerald shoals of the Kenai and glacier gray waters of Bristol Bay.

We troll along the thousands of miles of Alaska coastline, hooking thick silvers, broad as a thigh, while 50-foot humpback whales breach...

We stand on a pitching deck, against 5-foot waves and the ever constant risk of losing our breakfast, while jigging for deep Resurrection Bay kings fatter than a young hog.

We wade far up a glacial stream and cast to black-tailed silvers sulking beneath vast brown clouds of misshapen humpacked pink salmon, still ravenously inhaling any bait that comes in range.

We join the human carnival dip netting on the beaches at the mouth of the Kenai, standing waist deep in the cold and surging tide, holding a 5-foot dip net to intercept your own family's share of the waves of red salmon..."

-excerpt from "Salmon Running in their Veins" by Alaska Magazine @alaskamagazine
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#AboveAllFish
#Alasksalmon
#alaskaart
#kristabeyerart

It's fall and snow has crested the peaks around Si

It's fall and snow has crested the peaks around Silverton. This weather always makes me want to grab a book and sit by the fire.
Here's a few from last year's fall in AK cause I seem to be on an Alaska kick and thinking about Salmon.

1. A fictional account inspired by the Henry T. Allen expedition of the Copper River in 1885. This book blends past and present with letters and journal style writing. Woven between its pages is adventure and awe of uncharted lands and people that can onmy be described with magical realism.
"That is excitement. We catch only glimpses, a burst of movement, a flap of wings, yet it is life itself beating at shadow's edge. It is the unfolding of potential; all of what we might experience and see and learn awaits us."

2. Eowyn Ivy continues to blend the magical with the real and leaves you wondering how much of this fairytale could be true and that fiction often holds more truth than fact. Based off a Russian Fairytale, this book takes a look into Alaskan homesteading and the brutal and unforgiving beauty of the north. "In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among the trees."

3. Sidney Huntington's account of life on the Koyukuk is the epitome of the idea that truth is sometimes crazier than fiction. Born in 1915 he watches Alaska change as he does, coming to terms with new technology and old traditions. "One's course in life often pivots on small incidents."
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If you read any of these give me a ring. They're all incredible!
#shadowsonthekoyukuk
#koyukuk
#copperriver
#thesnowchild
#tothebrightedgeoftheworld
#alaskaliterature
#goodreads

(5/5) Alaskan Salmon Stationary Set (set of 5 5x7

(5/5) Alaskan Salmon Stationary Set (set of 5 5x7 cards with envelopes. 1 of each of the 5 Pacific Salmon)
$20 plus $5 for shipping on pre-order. DM, text, or email to get on the pre-order list.
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The Alaskan Salmon have finally made it to the printer! This series is close to my heart, because, well fish are awesome obviously, and Salmon are my favorite. Salmon are a Keystone species, a critical component of Alaskan culture, economical vital to Alaskan industry, and they are the living embodiment of selfless sacrifice. They're life cycle also tracks some of my favorite spaces, the headwaters to the ocean of the river systems I love most.
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'COHO' Copper River Delta
1: Coho Stationary set up
2: Ain't no Ho like a Coho
3: Coho and Copper River Delta illustration
4: Early season packrafting on the Copper, hard to believe this is close to the coast and just around the corner from the deta
5: back of card info
6: weathering out the sandstorm in Chitina, dip netting capitol of the Copper River
7: overlooking Prince William Sound, one of Alaska's premier commercial fisheries
8. Sea run fishing. This is actually a King, but I ain't reposting
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#coho
#silversalmon
#copperriver
#copperriverdelta
#alaskaart
#alaskansalmon
#watercolor

4/5) Alaskan Salmon Stationary Set (set of 5 5x7 c

4/5) Alaskan Salmon Stationary Set (set of 5 5x7 cards with envelopes. 1 of each of the 5 Pacific Salmon)
$20 plus $5 for shipping on pre-order. DM, text, or email to get on the pre-order list.
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The Alaskan Salmon have finally made it to the printer! This series is close to my heart, because, well fish are awesome obviously, and Salmon are my favorite. Salmon are a Keystone species, a critical component of Alaskan culture, economical vital to Alaskan industry, and they are the living embodiment of selfless sacrifice. They're life cycle also tracks some of my favorite spaces, the headwaters to the ocean of the river systems I love most.
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'Chum'' Kuskokwim Delta
1: Chum and Kuskokwim delta illustration
2: I have yet to make it to the Kuskokwim or its watershed. Something to aspire too. So instead here's some sea run Salmon fishing.
3: Backside card info
4: Chum is a major food source for sled dogs. Although Ullr here doesn't get Salmon.
5: Stationary layout
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#chum
#dogsalmon
#keta
#kuskokwim
#alaskaart
#alaskansalmon
#watercolor

3/5) Alaskan Salmon Stationary Set (set of 5 5x7 c

3/5) Alaskan Salmon Stationary Set (set of 5 5x7 cards with envelopes. 1 of each of the 5 Pacific Salmon)
$20 plus $5 for shipping on pre-order. DM, text, or email to get on the pre-order list.
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The Alaskan Salmon have finally made it to the printer! This series is close to my heart, because, well fish are awesome obviously, and Salmon are my favorite. Salmon are a Keystone species, a critical component of Alaskan culture, economical vital to Alaskan industry, and they are the living embodiment of selfless sacrifice. They're life cycle also tracks some of my favorite spaces, the headwaters to the ocean of the river systems I love most.
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'Chinook'' Yukon River Delta
1: Chinook Stationary layout
2: Midnight sun magic on the Chena, part of the Yukon River Watershed
3: Chinook and Yukon illustration (front side of card)
4: Packrafting the 40 mile, a tributary of the Yukon that runs into Canada
5: Backside card info
6: Bug nets while boating, a common occurrence in interior Alaska
7. Sunset in the rolling hills of the interior. In the Yukon watershed.
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#kingsalmon
#chinook
#yukon
#alaskaart
#alaskansalmon
#watercolor

(2/5) Alaskan Salmon Stationary Set (set of 5 5x7

(2/5) Alaskan Salmon Stationary Set (set of 5 5x7 cards with envelopes. 1 of each of the 5 Pacific Salmon)
$20 plus $5 for shipping on pre-order. DM, text, or email to get on the pre-order list.
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The Alaskan Salmon have finally made it to the printer! This series is close to my heart, because, well fish are awesome obviously, and Salmon are my favorite. Salmon are a Keystone species, a critical component of Alaskan culture, economical vital to Alaskan industry, and they are the living embodiment of selfless sacrifice. They're life cycle also tracks some of my favorite spaces, the headwaters to the ocean of the river systems I love most.
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'Sockeye'' Kvichak Bay
1: Sockeye and Kvichak illustration
2: I have yet to make it to Bristol Bay or its watershed headwaters, but I've been close. This is a fire sunset of Mt Redoubt, the north side of which feeds into Bristol Bay and the Kvichak
3: Backside card info
4: Salmon fishing from the bayside shore
5: Stationary layout
6: Seiner used for commercial Salmon harvest
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#sockeye
#redsalmon
#kvichak
#bristolbay
#alaskaart
#alaskansalmons
#watercolor

(1/5) Alaskan Salmon Stationary Set (set of 5 5x7

(1/5) Alaskan Salmon Stationary Set (set of 5 5x7 cards with envelopes. 1 of each of the 5 Pacific Salmon)
$20 plus $5 for shipping on pre-order. DM, text, or email to get on the pre-order list.
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The Alaskan Salmon have finally made it to the printer! This series is close to my heart, because, well fish are awesome obviously, and Salmon are my favorite. Salmon are a Keystone species, a critical component of Alaskan culture, economical vital to Alaskan industry, and they are the living embodiment of selfless sacrifice. They're life cycle also tracks some of my favorite spaces, the headwaters to the ocean of the river systems I love most.
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'Humpy' Susitna River
1: Humpy Stationary
2: fishing for Humpies
3: The art
4: Humpies jamming up the river during the Salmon run
5: back of card info
6: packrafting the headwaters of the Susitna
7: The glaciers that feed the 'Mighty Su'
8: Autumn colors while dropping into the Susitna's headwaters
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#humpy
#pinksalmon
#susitna
#mightySu
#alaskaart
#alaskansalmon
#watercolor

Printed some new 8x10s of some old pieces and the

Printed some new 8x10s of some old pieces and the re-print sold out already! Until they're restocked you can only find them in person at 'Nomad- Silverton.' Nomad is Holly's (and Silverton's) new shop full of re-discovered and ready to be loved clothing and accessories. Drop in for a good conversation, some art, and/or something fun for the summer concert series.
New works are on the way after a long hiatus from selling art to focus on midnight sun adventures, art for fun, Colorado avalanche season, and springtime runoff. Stay tuned!
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@nomadsilverton , @silvertoncreativedistrict
#bodynatureconnections
#penandink
#watercolorpainting

○ an ode to a solstice sun ○ in the dead of w

○ an ode to a solstice sun ○

in the dead of winter
when each week ushered a new storm
and yet again i shoveled out my walkway and windows
i longed for your shortwave radiation to do the work for me

and now that you've arrived this week
you showed no mercy to the delicate flower starts and their naively optimistic gardener
your short intrusive waves making quick work
turning green supple stalks to crispy skeletons of lost potential

-k.b.
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Practicing some jim harrison and charles bukowski sentiments. But really, I do love the sun. Happy Solstice and cheers to garden centers doing the work for us...

#solstice
#thankyousun
#giverandtaker
#naturesketching
#writtenprose
#poemsinspiredbyjimharrison
#poemsinspiredbyxharlesbukowski

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