Photo Essay: Pioneer Ave. Shopping-Homer, Alaska

Giving myself some ‘girl’ time, I went ‘out on the town’ with my mom.

We visited many of the shops in Homer, AK that I drive by everyday, but never stop at because I can’t imagine hauling my gaggle of children into places with so many breakable things.

We stopped first at a favorite restaurant, Cosmic Kitchen. Their specialty is Mexican, but they were named because Homer is a "cosmic hamlet by the sea.'

The wall decor next to our table in Cosmic

Next shopping at Blackbeary Bog

All sorts of treasures and useful things

japanese fishing bubbles

At first my mom thought this was made out of beads, but then I noticed it was broken glass bangles like the kind we got in India

 

Ahhhh....peace. I've found it finally.

 

I didn't ask to be a princess, I was just born one

Next Alaska Wildberry Kitchen, Jewelry, Gifts & Museum

Who?

Wear it with pride

Be one with the moose.

Eskimo pants made from seal skin

An eskimo baby diaper (mokuk) and story of how it was used

An eskimo seal gut raincoat - very handy

So true

Hmmm...words to live by

Now off to the art galleries. Fireweed is a very beautiful wildflower that grows in Alaska in the summer.

I see you

I like this one better

A wooden quilt

A wooden coat

A wooden sweater

 

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