Spring in Alaska happens abruptly. After two months of mud and bare trees,occasionally interrupted with several inches of snow, a season properly known as ‘breakup’, you wake up and everything is green. The sun is shining, and the air is hot and heavy with the smell of sap. The newly unfurled leaves are shiny, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Summer sun after a month of rain red, berry blood, stains hands and lips they taste of the river, and of the mountain, and when I am too greedy they tumble from my fingers, bright rubies lost to tall grass. When the clouds finally broke this week the sun that shone through was not the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Usually this time of year winter is still in its death throes. There’s mud up to your ankles, it frosts over at night, and there’s one last snow storm mid-to-late-April. Spring is not a pleasant season in Alaska. But, following the trend of strange, strange weather that started last summer, it is already dry outside. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I took an impromptu vacation from the internet, and really all things technological, last week when I painted my room. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time as the almost flesh toned pink, which is the same color the rest of the house is painted, simply wasn’t a restful or relaxing color […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Termination dust. It’s a term that I forget most people don’t know because up here in Alaska you’d be hard pressed to find somebody who doesn’t know it. It’s the first dusting of snow on the mountains, heralding the end of summer and the beginning of the colder months. I alway smile to see it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It always seems to rain here in July. I know there must have been hot days, and bright days, but all my memory can drag up is gray-white skies and a comforting sound of rain-patter. June is the hot month, dry and endless sun burning down. And in August the rains will clear for a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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