Seventeen Minutes, Two Seconds

Lupines with our trusty ship in the background. Unalaska, aka Dutch Harbor. July 13, 2025.

A good old-woman day. Started with a personal best on my morning mile around the grounds: 17 minutes and 2 seconds. Later, I Ubered up to the hospital for in-person yoga.

Gratitude

Extremely grateful that my body is holding up as well as it has. It’s not like I take very good care of it, and I don’t think I was dealt especially good genes. So far, just lucky, I guess.


A nice rainy afternoon spent culling and cataloging photos from July.

Alaska in summer is awash in wildflowers.

Meanwhile, my iPad updated itself to iOS 26. Everything seems to work. I’m glad Apple killed Split View/Slide Over. Not so sure about this new Liquid Glass “feature.”

This scary-looking thing is Beach Flea Bane Senecio pseudoarnica.

When it opens, it will look like a daisy. The Alutiiq people used it medicinally — crushed roots for boils, and even heated stems as “switches” for arthritis and bone pain. I’ll stick with Aleve.

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