Posts Tagged ‘spring’

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May18

Spring in Alaska

by admin on May 18th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
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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…

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Apr23

Snow in April

by admin on April 23rd, 2010 at 11:20 pm
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I woke up yesterday morning to grey skies and heavy snowfall. At first it came down driving, mixed with icy rain, when it changed to huge, fluffy flakes that fell at a leisurely pace, like snow in a snowglobe. It snowed all afternoon, accumulating a good five inches here before the clouds finally broke up. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mar31

This and That In ‘Spring’

by admin on March 31st, 2010 at 9:02 pm
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I meant to have this post up on Friday, but as it happened this weekend was a dog show weekend. Dog shows seem to consume my weekends, and I spent yesterday recovering. And playing Final Fantasy XIII, but I don’t count that time – as far as I’m concerned when I sit down to play […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Apr28

70 in April

by admin on April 28th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
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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…

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