Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 1:58PM 
Student boards bus this morning. I was going to wait to post until after my coffee break, to see what else I might have to choose from, but then I was reminded that today is teacher inservice day and the students have been released early.
Barrow, school bus in Alaska, school Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 4:27PM 
The school day is over. I stop and wait as students get off the bus and head for home. About 3:30 PM. The sun may be down for good for a couple of months, but arctic twilight lingers.
This may be my only post today. Busy. A bit behind.
Text added at 5:01 PM. After 59 days, the Squarespace nightmare may be over. I got an email from Squarespace today. If it is over, its effects will continue to follow me at least until I return to Wasilla and find some time to figure out both how to upgrade to the new Squarespace platform and to decide if I want to. They are not fixing their defective app, but rather are introducing new apps compatible with their new platform, Squarespace 6, and will be dropping Squarespace 5, which this blog is built on, along with the iPhone app that went with it, that created this gigantic nightmare for me.
In the meantime, I will keep photographing The Daily School Bus, but no longer as a protest against Squarespace. I have always enjoyed getting a snap of the occassional school bus, but now, as irritated as I have been with Squarespace, I have enjoyed the challenge and fun of photographing a school bus every day, so I will keep doing it - at least to the Christmas holiday season. In three weeks, Margie and I plan to go to Arizona - first to Phoenix, where the airplane will drop us off and then on to her and my children's White Mountain Apache Reservation.
We will make a quick trip to Salt Lake City to see my brother, sister and some other relatives and then back to Arizona and into the Navajo Nation, where Lavina's family will host a traditional blessing ceremony for Jacob, Lavina and children and we will all participate. So I can't stop this project until I get school buses in all these places. It just won't be a protest anymore, but a project.
Maybe I'll make an iBook on Instagrams of The Daily School Bus. Even a real paper book would be fun, but what publisher would ever publish it for me? And where would I find the time?
Monday, November 18, 2013 at 5:31PM 
It was 4 PM, afternoon coffee break time for me and I had just stepped out of the coffee shop to the right of the screen. I had a hot Americano in one hand and in the other my gloves and ear band. My iPhone was in my right back pocket. And there was my daily school bus, parked right there at the corner and a kid had just stepped off of it! But my hands were full and there was no place to set anything down!
Somehow, I managed to stuff my gloves and ear protector into the crook of my left arm and kept my coffee in my left hand, yanked my phone out of my hip pocket, turned it on and activated the camera with one hand and thumb and then managed to get off three snaps before the bus disappeared. This is the third. The first two show the bus better, but I prefer this because of the chilled smoke curling up behind the stop sign. Plus, you can see the ASRC building – home of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, the most financially successful of all The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act regional corporations.
Text added at 5:41 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 58 and counting.
Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 3:15PM 
Once again, this being Sunday, I have not seen any schoolbuses rolling through the streets. So I fall back to a school bus image I shot Tuesday afternoon but held back until today. There is a chapel it, the Cornerstone Community Church, which makes it kind of appropriate for Sunday even though it was shot on Tuesday.
Text added at 3:18 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 57 and counting.
Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 3:32PM 
This being Saturday, I haven't seen any buses rolling and I don't think I'm going to, but I did see these buses parked by the high school. Barrow is three days away from the final sunrise/sunset of the year 2013.
Text added at 3:36 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 56 and counting.
