Salmon Run 2022. A continuation of 2018

 We drove to the cabin in October of 2022.  We had experienced the major cyclical salmon run in 2018 and knew that 'every 4 years' the sockeye salmon run is supposed to be at it's peak.  It was a memorable even in 2018 and the thought was to try and recreate that memory.

Here is a link to ALL photos of the 2018 event as well as all of the photos in 2022.  Be warned, there is a womena with white silver hair in many photos of the 2018 trip included in this link.  So skip the link if necessary.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/xrjhdE5bXHKmoD9bA

Now you have access to all of the photos.  I will now continue to show some of the photos and tell a story with just a few of the images.

The first thing that I'll share is the view.  The turn into the 'morley' and then 'stoney' reserves is memorable to me.  I love turning into these lands and looking out into the mountains.  The morley and stoney reserves have some spectacular views of the world.

Here is a link to the view over morley / stoney.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/rBUdvBXUvBcKruxQ8

Here's photo #2.  coming through morley and into the stoney territory.

7. The whole video of us coming through the golden bridge building....

https://photos.app.goo.gl/3LomY1DZFbtBXH5c6

This shows exactly what we saw in october as we passed the construction and into golden.  They opened the corridor for only 3 days to allow all of the october thanks giving long weekend drivers a quick trip through the interior.

A dark photo of us driving in.  the headlights on the trees.

Betty waking up earlier than everyone else.  Cabin, hoem, doesn't matter.  Betty is up first.

Everyone grabbing snacks before leaving the car and going to the salmon run.

The drive into the parking lot.

Funny man  1 with a salmon stick.

Funny man 2 with a salmon stick.

Driving into the parking lot.

Driving over the bridge and towards the parking lot.

18.1 link to the story

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BFBE6eHgMmAAA2MLA

Kids doing crafts at the stations before the walk.

A beautiful bear hide that someone would keep putting on for a dance.

25 healing fire

https://photos.app.goo.gl/F65xp9yDnxCQwHBG7

Bonnie and all sitting for the story.

Nice bilbords.

Alcie testing how furry it was.

Healing fire.  It was nice.  

The first walk up into the rivers.

First walking photo.

37. a link of the first view of the salmon run....

https://photos.app.goo.gl/hBrMqcr3r8DTEdvL6

39 dead salmon

40 a view of the running river, showing the salmon resting before moving up strea.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/NgPcYMCVxLBqyi99A

43  the main videos of the salmon run....

https://photos.app.goo.gl/5SW8hLecA7biEqV8A

https://photos.app.goo.gl/hidLkmLsdy8vNcp19

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UR65iuCVnoYHndGq8

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/8XfXQFvH5ozkDuz7A

Capturing when the cousings, meg, dalton, david, ceilgh and others met up with us on the beach@!!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/p2fygQzr88jrVPBs5

47

probably the most cousins that i got in one photo

48 trying to get the photo from 4 years go

52. link to ok

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7vNoSGWwpzZnPXHy8

52.1 link to amazing.  great photo of sockeye

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7qnME6CxdwM7j4DB7

53.

link to more amazing salmon run

https://photos.app.goo.gl/g9yhwC5TwCQkVCTa6

49 trying to recreate the photos of kids in the tree from 2018

50 cousins over the bridge.

51. selfie of miranda and I.

52.  Best view.

55 last video link

https://photos.app.goo.gl/t3rV92Bo4gAthvrX7

56 me and meg and ceiligh celebrating after finding the best view in the river...

57 Grabbing deep friend salmon and bannock as a snack after getting through the whole walk.

58 selfies of tired people after the salmon run.

59 Driving home after the salmon run.

60. sitting iun the hammock after the salmon run.

61

a video of the sound... of the steam.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kuR9pNjCdRLczSwb8

The things that define us.

 I walked to school in elementary and maybe in grade 3, or even as late as grade 6 I walked to school and home with a backpack that looked like it was a panda bear on my back... and it was the one wearing the backpack.  

It seems to me that some of these treasures are a physical representation of memories.  I was complimented about that backpack.  We were poor and spending money on frivolities was unheard of.  Today I absolutely do not agree with spending as a way to show love but I do acknowledge that people have 'love languages' and that everyone's love language isn't hugs like mine is.

My love language is cooking.  My love language is gifts.  My love language is service.  I've heard these things said but they don't really register with me because of course, there is nothing that says you are important to me... like the feeling of two people hugging and being safe from everything outside of that hug.

I was just cleaning up my loading/tools/gun room and deciding what is garbage and what needs to be stored for 12 months, and what needs to stay out and available.  I found this backpack in the corner-corner-corner of the room. 

Just sitting with myself trying to understand need, want, use, and function.  Betty asked if she could use it for school and both girls agree that it is amazing.  Instead of using it and consuming it with use I decided to say that it should go to the 'dress up' or 'tickle trunk' that is Artas wedding hutch at 2427 that now acts as a home for haloween clothing and other fun things.

this spoon also acts as a moment in time that I need to capture.  I have no idea how this spoon still hasn't been lost but it is currently being used in the house.  years and years now.  it continues to be in our cutlery draw and every day that I use it I think about how I was given this spoon so that I'd stop asking for a dog.  A lovely spoon that has a little boy and his dog on it.  I hope that it sticks around forever.

These articles do remind me of the briefcase that smelt of the burned down garage.  The one with important post cards from Doral Pilling that had never been used.  Many things I've seen that were important to keep.

Passing back into my photos of 2020 and earlier was a bit hard.  Looking for this photo of Arta's grades sent me past lots of beautiful and tender places.  It was hard to keep the string of this thought alive.  I almost got sent in different directions in terms of the thought and sentiment that I was trying to hold onto.

So is it a photo of Arta as a child, a record of her spectacular grades?  Proof that you are smart, proof that you have worth.   Maybe thats not the idea at all.  As I'm having Micheal put out all of my medals and he is praising me for how many medals I received, I wonder if the idea might be to hold onto these things so that you can show the next generation what is possible.  He gets to touch all of these medals and we get to talk together about what is possible and what happened in the past.

It's hard to know what are the important things to hold onto.  I held onto the 'box of shame' that I inherited from Catherine.  A box full of my medals and trophys and most cherished accomplishments.  A funny thing that it was easier to internalize shame to success then try to learn the appropriate amounts of pride to have and show about accomplishments.

I think that this was a record of the blessing given to Arta before I was born and a photo of her with me after I'd been birthed.

Although it's too many things, I hold the thousands and thousands of photos that I've taken as my precious thing.  I remind and say it to myself about once a year.  I say, these photos that are attached to my email address, these records are the gift that I intend to leave to my children when I'm gone.  And I've reminded myself and said it again just now.

Love to all,