For those who didn't come home, we will never forget.

Blogging will be extremely light. The site is going to get a make-over in the near future. And it's springtime in Alaska, so I've got better things to do than mess around on the computer.

In the meantime, here's a bird that was checking out my brother's backyard last year.

The Tightwad Bank is back.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. J.P. Dawson, now stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, targeted the Tightwad Bank during a road trip out of Maryland five years ago. But Dawson never got the Tightwad Bank account he wanted.

A couple of armed robberies had left the bank lobby shuttered, and the clerk at the drive-through couldn’t open new accounts.

“We were like, ‘What a bummer. We drove all the way out here,’ ” Dawson said.

Still, he carried a Tightwad Bank key chain until it broke recently.

Yeah... I'm gonna open an account.

Background on the closing and on the big road trip in '03.

Having some issues uploading new photos... when that's fixed, the blogging will resume.

29 Dec '07: Resurgemus says, "Bryant Gumbel sucks."

11 Apr '08: Bryant Gumbel says, ...we’ve agreed that we’d all be better served going in different directions."

I must use this power wisely.

A pair of ruddy turnstones. These little birds spend their summers in the Arctic. Quite a long flight just to hang out on the beach each winter.

A gymnast from the Air Force Academy competes against University of Alaska at Anchorage this past Sunday.

No, I don't have a clue who won.

Vacation is over. Back to work.

At least I'll be wearing green for St. Patrick's Day.

A limpkin in Mayaka State Park.