My Desktop Photo 24: Klondike Highway North

Photo by Andrew Stark (click for larger view)

Last weekend, I drove to Skagway, Alaska for my semi-annual Wheaties run. (One of my big regrets in this life is moving to a place where I can’t buy Wheaties for my children.) Around every curve in the highway there was more magnificent autumn scenery. Unfortunately, the camera was in Kimberly, BC for a wedding, so I have no photos of that trip, but I do have photos of the fall colours on the Klondike Highway North.

By imagining a huge mountain lake running through the center of the photo, all against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and clear blue sky, you’ll have a pretty good image of what I saw last Saturday.

Nothing to Write Home About

Here are a few cliches or sayings with the word “home” in them.

• Home is where the heart is.
• There’s no place like home.
• Bring home the bacon.
• A man’s home is his castle.
• You can never go home again.
• Updates: Kim adds “homey”. As she explains, a homey is “a person who lives and works and stays close to home. I grew up in a college town and the homeys were kids who stayed in town for college and lived at home.”
• Also from Kim: home boy
• From Rosemary: Jiggity, jiggity, all the way home. Or as we used to say it, “Home again, home again, jigitty, jig!”
• Ellen B adds “home body.”
• Rosemary again: “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”
• I’m adding to my own list with “Make yourself at home.”
  
• Kim again: Mi casa, su casa 
• Home, sweet home,
• Hearth and home, and 
• Keep the home fires burning. 
• From Janna: Eaten out of house and home.  
• Tanya adds: Home is where you hang your hat.
• Me again: Home free.
  
• And a slew of them from threegirldad: Homeward bound
• Till the cows come home.
• The chickens have come home to roost.
• The lights are on, but nobody’s home.
• And his personal favorite (naturally): Just wait till your father gets home!

Can you think of others?

September's Theme: Home

I planned to introduce this month’s them last week, but I worked scraping, sanding and painting the back deck instead. So here we are, close to the middle of the month, and I’m just getting around to this.

The title of this post has probably already tipped you off to September’s theme here at Rebecca Writes. Yes, a couple of times a week, I’ll be posting something that’s related to the idea of home. 

I’m inviting you to join me. Just put up a blog post connected to the topic of home and leave the link to your post in the comments here or email it to me. Poems, photos, lists, stories, you-name-it, it’s all welcome. Every Tuesday and Friday for the rest of September, I’ll post a collection of the submitted home related posts.

The illustration, by the way, is from Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House, the story of a little house that found a home.