An incredibly sad day. J'aime Paris.

I love Paris. I’ve been lucky enough to be there many times over the years for both work and play, so the devastating fire at Notre Dame today was absolutely heartbreaking. I hope it will be rebuilt—maybe in my lifetime so I can go back for one more visit. Here are a couple of images from past visits.

And all of a sudden it's light out at 10pm.

I’m always amazed at this time of year as the days get longer and all of a sudden, boom, it’s light out at 10pm and it comes as this big, wonderful surprise. We had an incredibly mild winter and early spring this year, but you still sit out on the deck on a night like this and think “we made it through another one”.

Looking west at Sleeping Lady.

and looking north towards the Alaska Range and Denali.

Young Lynx back for another short visit.

So we’re sitting at the dinner table tonight when my wife looked out the window and saw this young lynx headed down the neighbors driveway. I was able to grab the camera and grab a couple of shots as it headed towards us. As I got to the top of our driveway, a snowshoe hare came blasting out of the bushes right in front of me, followed by the lynx, who honestly just wasn’t putting that much effort into a pursuit :) I’m pretty sure this is the same young one that was laying in the sun in our backyard earlier in the week. Fun to see them around the neighborhood this spring.