[BIGLOOK]

I promise not to tell a single, solitary tourist.

Where you are and it's snowing. the tourists flock. Where I am and it's raining the tourists freak.

BTW; Congratulations to Mackey!

[SandRat]

A Dream


Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my Angel-guarded bed,
That an Emmet lost its way
Where on grass methought I lay.

Troubled, 'wilder'd, and forlorn,
Dark, benighted, travel-worn,
Over many a tangled spray,
All heart-broken I heard her say:

``O, my children! do they cry?
Do they hear their father sigh?
Now they look abroad to see:
Now return and weep for me.''

Pitying, I drop'd a tear;
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied: ``What wailing wight
Calls the watchman of the night?

``I am set to light the ground,
While the beetle goes his round:
Follow now the beetle's hum;
Little wanderer, hie thee home.''





- William Blake

[Kathy in Alaska]

Lance Mackey runs his dog team up the finish chute of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska, on Tuesday to become the first musher to win both the Iditarod and the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race in the same year. PHOTO: AP

Lance Mackey, of Fairbanks, Alaska, hugs gets kiss from a his lead dogs Larry, left, with Lippy right,after his Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victory in Nome, Alaska Tuesday, March, 13 2007, to become the first musher to win both the Iditarod and the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race in the same year.

Lance Mackey and his lead dogs Larry and Lippy under the burled arch in Nome after winning the 2007 Iditarod Sled Dog Race on Tuesday March 13, 2007. Bob Hallinen / Anchorage Daily News