I lived in Wyoming with my husband and three kids for 16 years, not to mention the years I grew up there. When the kids were little we spent our free time up in the Uinta Mountains camping, hiking, or just taking an afternoon to enjoy a picnic. Every morning when I would take my kids to school I would pull out of my driveway and I would see those mountains and knew I was home.
When we decided to move to Alaska I knew it was a good move for us and we were excited about the new life we were going to make there. As we were leaving Wyoming I could not help but take one last look at that mountain range and think how much I was going to miss Wyoming, my home.
Two years ago I started taking pictures and I started to find my place in Alaska. We live 30 miles from and active volcano Mt. Redoubtand last year it started to erupt. As crazy as it sounds I found my home in the images I took of this volcano. I feel as if it is watching over us and I often stand on my back porch admiring this great mountain. It has become my substitution for the Uinta Mountains. I can’t exactly camp or hike on Mt. Redoubt but the Uinta Mountains never erupted either.
What makes where you live home? Show us where you’re from.
Image and words courtesy of Honorary Sister/Guest Blogger Eleaca Young, or as she’s known and loved on Flickr, Leaca’s Philosophy.
Snow in winter…my favorite nearby pond – it’s what I call home:
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=1057
I used to be from here:
http://courtneysablogger.blogspot.com/2009/07/coming-home.html
And now I am from here:
http://courtneysablogger.blogspot.com/2009/08/guy-stuff.html
Such a beautiful shot and words to go with Eleaca.
I grew up in four different places but for me "home" is always where my parents live as I tend to move about a lot. Actually, I noticed that when I move to a new place, it becomes "home" for about half a year but afterwards it’s just "where I live" and "home" goes back to being my parents’ place.
Although I call this home, it’s not truly where my heart is, but it is where I do what I do and plan for the future
http://www.dianeschuller.com/blog/?p=1540
I travel for work & this week there has been a ton of it. So this shot sums up Home for me. Nothing fancy. Just nice to be home.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/onemoreplease/4314536452/
hello Leaca…and what beauty you have shared…so special.
i will link a post from earlier this week driving down the busy interstate …watching the sun set in Texas
http://www.redorgray.com/2010/01/drivng-east.html
I was born, raised and then went to undergrad in Wyoming. Now I live in Texas (Houston) and oh, how I miss my mountains. There is not such a concept down here in these parts…perspective, I am working on maintaining that. 🙂
beautiful, as i knew it would be.
xo
just beautiful, Eleaca.
here’s my town. kind of a ghost town this time of year.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14811117@N02/4316702501/
I love the track of pastel smoke and ash!
http://www.joyschmoll.com/2009/11/my-heart-home/
I work 1.5 miles from home, at the base of the foothills and canyon that separate Northern California from Nevada. This year I’m trying to capture the changing of the seasons in my adopted hometown from the perspective of the tree outside my office:
http://californiacheesemaid.blogspot.com/2010/01/weekly-tree-3.html
I live in the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C., but thanks to smart county planners in the 70’s most of us have wonderful parks and trails within walking distance. This from "our" part of the trail after our last big snow.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22487105@N06/4217777072/in/set-72157623037115282/
With everything we got today, it will look like this again tomorrow.
I am new to my spot I currently call HOME- each day as I treat it with a little more of me — it is becoming an enjoyable place I am landing. 🙂
I long ago used to live in Montana — I remember the Unitas 🙂 thanks for reminding me.
http://www.dipityroad.com/fridays-finding-beauty/friday-finding-beauty-12910
Thanks for sharing. Great photos of home.
Lovely words and photograph. I always enjoy Leaca’s images.
I know just how beautiful Alaska really is having been there several times to visit my sister and her family. Although we were both born in Georgia we each have moved a long way from our birth state to create new homes in far off places …my sister to Alaska and me to my new home in England.
http://giftsofthejourney.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/all-this-and-each-other-too/
Beautiful post and image. Alaska has been on my list of places to visit for a while now…second only to Glacier National Park 🙂
Home…Pennsylvania, I can still daytrip into Manhattan, I’m only a short car ride away from friends and family, but yet at times I feel like I’m secluded in the most beautiful and peaceful of places:
http://bekkah.squarespace.com/blog/2010/1/27/simple-things.html
You inspired me!
http://www.ayearofhappy.com/2010/01/home-to-me.html
Just down the street:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31403417@N00/4280386586/
The city is my home. I love the bustle of the streets, and the camaraderie on weekends like this when the city is covered with snow and everyone comes out to play! Photos below.
http://www.dashily.com/home/?p=257
We’re on the process of moving – I know it’s not the house that makes the home, albeit I will miss this one; but where I live, this city, the ocean – I have never felt more "at home" in my soul.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16869615@N03/4294226187/
I am in awe of your photography! I hope to be this great one day! XO<3:)Marybeth
http://suiteheart.blogspot.com/
Thanks everyone. Alaska is beautiful and everyone should visit here at least once.
I live in southern California, so pretty much any horizon/sky shot you take around here is bound to have palm trees in it! I’ve definitely gotten used to it over the years, but with how many online friends I have that live in other places, I’ve recently started noticing them again. Although we also have forests, mountains and the ocean, they pretty much scream "SoCal" to me! 🙂 http://www.flickr.com/photos/trudem/4247101586/