Holiday photos Archives - Julia O'Malley An Alaska Life: Culture + Travel + Food + Home Sun, 13 Dec 2015 01:58:31 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.juliaomalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-F3M65KGL7FCHTGCODU4PHLUTSM-32x32.jpeg Holiday photos Archives - Julia O'Malley 32 32 Ash Adams and her magic lens, Bok Bok edition https://www.juliaomalley.com/2015/12/12/ash-adams-and-her-magic-lens-bok-bok-edition/ https://www.juliaomalley.com/2015/12/12/ash-adams-and-her-magic-lens-bok-bok-edition/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2015 01:58:31 +0000 http://juliaomalley.media/?p=3591 Holiday photo time with Ash Adams again, starring backyard chickens!

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]]> I can’t believe that a year has passed since our last family photo! Over the year, we’ve added some chickens to the mix. Naturally, they are the stars of this year’s holiday shoot with our dear friend Ash Adams, who has such a great sense of humor and a way with kids. Leo named most of them after his favorite movie, Big Hero 6. They are Hiro, Bamax, Tadashi and, for reasons I can’t explain, Bubba. (That’s Bubba in our family photo. Her little comb has some frostbite on it, poor girl. I’ve since improved the coop heat situation.) Neri, who is up first in the morning and has been collecting the eggs with me, calls them “Bok Boks.” That name has kind of stuck.

Here’s their coop, which we were lucky to inherit from some neighbors who had it in their backyard but didn’t have chickens (thanks!). It’s all decorated for Christmas:

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They were babies just this spring at being raised by Sara’s cousin Emily at Twitter Creek Gardens in Homer. And now, they’ve finally started laying:

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Eggs, top to bottom, belong to: Bamax, Tadashi, Bubba, and Hiro.

They have been way more fun than I expected.  And the fresh eggs are great. I love giving them to friends and family almost as much as I love eating them.

Anyway, thanks Ash, for these great photos:

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Little Neri, age 17 mo.
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There is chicken poo on my boots.
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Hiro, looking glam. My mutant hand.
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I let him hold the eggs. It doesn’t always end well.
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Leo, age 4.

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This is kind of my favorite photo.
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No, maybe it’s this one.

 

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]]> https://www.juliaomalley.com/2015/12/12/ash-adams-and-her-magic-lens-bok-bok-edition/feed/ 2 21 #SoAnchorage Holiday Delights: #11, family photo opportunities like this one https://www.juliaomalley.com/2014/12/11/21-soanchorage-holiday-delights-11-family-photo-opportunities-like-this-one/ Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:25:08 +0000 http://juliaomalley.media/?p=1038 Where else, my friends, do you have the chance to forgo the mall Santa and get your holiday photo taken with a massive stuffed moose?

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]]> Where else, my friends, do you have the chance to forgo the mall Santa and get your holiday photo taken with a massive stuffed moose? This here is Hank the Moose, perhaps the state’s most famous work of taxidermy. He moves around the state, but he is currently located at the 5th Avenue Mall near the AT&T store. Picture packages start at $20. Thanks to my friends Evan and Annie and their little daughter Ellie gamely being my moose photo models.

PS: Baby Bjorn advises against riding moose with a baby in the carrier.

Here’s an outtake:

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For more delights, go here.

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