We took a cruise ship to Alaska last June, and I'd just uploaded some pictures of this Alaska trip to my flowerpictures site, in the Alaska cruise page. It's nice to take a few days to escape the Summer heat of this year in the Midwest USA. This year, it rains too much and too hot for human in the Midwest, but it seems very good for plants and grasses! I feel bad the Southern US (especially Texas, Arizona), they got one of the worst drought in history!