Solstice Shadows.
I still can’t make up my mind if this is the happiest day in Alaska, or the saddest. We had an early morning visitor in the backyard.
Red sky at night.
10:15pm The smoke from the wildfires burning on the Kenai Peninsula about 30 miles from Anchorage are giving us some incredible sunsets. Almost Solstice.
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Definitely not a Disney kind of night.
Mama and baby moose were back in the yard around 11pm last night for a visit and feeding session. At 1am, there was a loud noise in the backyard and Devany jumped up in time to see a grizzly bear race past the house after the moose. We could hear what we thought was the calf—but might well have been the mom—bleating loudly in the thick woods across the road from our place for about one-half hour. It was a terrible sound. I’m not about to hike in there this morning to see if one of them became part of the food chain. Sometimes Nature is hard.
Going to be a big boy this fall.
Munching away at the dandelions this morning below the house. He’s going to be a big one! And check out those blue eyes.
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It's baby time.
We’ve been patiently waiting for the first newborn moose calves to show up in the yard, and tonight we finally got our first one of the year. It’s always an absolute pleasure to watch these young ones.
