A final feeding from me for Minnie yesterday morning with the farewell hope that she is well on her way to being a healthy, full-grown moose. Fingers crossed, and also that our own paths will cross again someday. 
Canoed and did a little trout fishing with Annie and Jenna on my last evening and then we cooked a piece of Jenna's salmon for dinner. The added daylight hours, time on the lake, and finicky cabin oven had us eating around 1 am. By the time I was packed, the sky was in a place of virtual sunrise/sunset, captured here in this time release photo:
I am now in Anchorage for a few days, staying with Tricia and Jared, sister and friend of my dear friend and colleague, Caryn. We went fishing up on the upper Kenai today, near the conduit to the Russian River. Tricia and I realized early on that we have the same Gregory backpacks, both equally weathered from over a decade of trailtime. Oh, how to tell them apart? We were parked for a quick lunch break when a black bear came up so watched him for a time and then drifted on. Jared caught our dinner, a nice red that we enjoyed this evening with an equally fine red.
Caryn won't be up here until Thursday evening, so I have several days here as well as another trip down to Soldotna on Monday for more driftboat fishing with Tom and Co. On Friday Tricia, Caryn and I will leave for our 4 night backpack in the Talkeetnas.
It's another night of heavy rain that started right when we got off the river. This is the wettest year Alaska has seen in 30 years. It's been keeping the bugs at bay but everyone sure would be happy to see some sun and stars.
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