Life in Homer Alaska

Ted Heuer’s Woodworking Career

By Beth Heuer on August 12, 2023

The weekly newspaper for Homer is aptly named The Homer News. This week’s edition had an article featuring Ted Heuer’s woodworking career. You can read the article in its entirety here, courtesy of author Christina Whiting of the Homer News. Thank you, Christina, for featuring Ted in the news.

A Busy Summer for Ted’s Woodshop

By Beth Heuer on July 20, 2023

This has been a busy summer for Ted’s Woodshop. Our Homer summer has been unseasonably cool (downright cold) and rainy. The good news is that we haven’t run out of rain water for our gardens. The bad news is that, well, spring came late, summer hasn’t arrived, and it’s July already. But we’ve been keeping […]

Camera Trap Photography

By Ted Heuer on March 28, 2022

A Little Bit About Me I have had an interest in photography since my grade school days. I also love wildlife and wild places. In fact, I spent a 30-year career working for the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Wildlife Refuge System. Beth (my wife) and I lived on a couple of […]

Remembering Toby Tyler

By Beth Heuer on April 18, 2017

Every once in a while, if you’re lucky, you meet someone extraordinary. Our friend, the late R.W. “Toby” Tyler, fit that category. A prolific artist, he may not have been well known in New York or Boston but here in Homer, Alaska, everybody knew his name. More than a few people have stories to tell, as […]

Ted’s Woodshop at Ptarmigan Arts Gallery in Homer, Alaska

By Beth Heuer on February 17, 2017

Someone stopped us in the grocery store this morning to ask where Ted’s Woodshop is located. We don’t operate a retail storefront, but we do have a presence in Ptarmigan Arts Gallery in Homer, Alaska. It was no surprise to learn that Homer has been listed by Expedia’s Viewfinder blog as one of the most artistic […]

The Neighborhood Sandhill Cranes

By Beth Heuer on August 20, 2014

Joanne Thordarson stopped by to photograph the sandhill cranes that are seasonal residents in our neighborhood. Joanne is a professional wildlife photographer and another of the 30-plus member-owners of Ptarmigan Arts gallery in Homer, Alaska. Joanne’s wonderful prints and cards are popular items at Ptarmigan. I am especially fond of her photo of a Long-Tailed […]

Low Tide, High Tide

By Beth Heuer on July 15, 2014

Homer, Alaska is located on Kachemak Bay, which has some of the most extreme tides in the world. This week, we had one of our highest “high” and lowest “low” tides of the year. The tidal swing was 26 feet on July 14 when we headed down to the harbor. We arrived at low tide. […]