Photography-Life in Alaska-Random Thoughts
Photography highlighting Alaska, the most beautiful place on earth.
Well, we've sure gotten our wish this year to get back to a normal Alaskan winter and have snow. Almost 2' in the past week of super-dry, weightless fluff! Another 8-10" yesterday and last night. Today, there's not a cloud in the sky and the trees are loaded to the point that everytime the Magpies land on the very top--which they love to do--there's an avalanche. It's gorgeous.
8"of snow last night, driveway drifted in this morning and now the wind is really howling up on the ridge of the Chugach Mountains behind the house. It has turned into a beautiful day, though!
The Chugach Mountains behind the house.
Waiting for breakfast to be served.
It's that time of year when the weather just can't make up its mind. Patches of bright blue sky, racing clouds, blasting winds at times that are shaking the house. We'll be back to winter tomorrow ;)
The view of Sleeping Lady this afternoon.
Sunset the other night over Cook Inlet with a thick blanket of fog covering the Anchorage Bowl, and the birdfeeders have been getting a workout lately. The days are getting much longer and we feel like we just might make it through another winter.
I'm starting to see a pattern lately ;) All my apps scream "BIG AURORA TONIGHT"! So I stay up, keep staring out the living room window until, sure enough, there's a nice bright band of green low on the horizon just before 1 am. Get all geared up in lots of warm stuff and head outside where the aurora display is already kind of fizzling out. Grab a couple of shots, then sit outside for another hour or so hoping she'll come back with an even stronger show. Hah. And I wouldn't have it any other way ;) Lots of flights overhead early this morning heading to/from Asia. Unusual to see that many between 1 and 2 am.
