Silvery, Green Alaskan Light

Silvery, Green Alaskan Light

Alaskan plein air #7/14

     6" x 8" oil on canvas on board

     $100.00 + $10. s/h

Both the sky and the reflective water in Alaska often had a silvery, green light.

In case you're wondering about those shrimp pots from the last post, twice we went shrimping and had great dinners!  It was quite a bit of work!

 1.  First we filled bait boxes.  Then, took the pots from the stack, flipped them over,  put the bait in, and tied the nets shut.                          






                                        
2.   Next, we threw them down from the roof to the main level, then                                                                       attached them to a line and threw them in!  (Although I think that                this photo is actually pulling them out.)  We then motored back to                                               our anchorage and waited 24 hours.

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3.  Using a hoist made it all easier.

    

4.  Each pot was lifted to the roof.  The
shrimp were then dumped into this big pot.

5.  The head of each shrimp was broken
 off and thrown back in for someone
 else's dinner!

                  

6.  Getting dinner ready!  These shrimp were 

 soaked in salty water for 24 hours to make them 

 less rubbery and tastier.

7.  Then all the pots were stacked so we'd

be ready several days later to do this again!

I'm sure some of you are familiar with all of this.  But, catching fresh shrimp is not something we do in Colorado!  I truly felt like I was on the TV show "The Deadliest Catch"!  We just didn't have any rough water!

I'm not sure why #2 is so erratic.  It looks perfect when I look at it in my posting set-up, there aren't any strange word spaces and there's not much room between #2 and 3.  Any thoughts on this?  Oh well, it's always something.