What happened to my August? …What happened to my summer? Time has just slipped away from me – already the leaves are starting to change, they are balanced right at that odd color between green and gold. Every day they shift a little closer to gold. The temperature has dropped, and the winds have picked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
It seems like, this year, that the weather is a month ahead of itself. It has done nothing but pour rain this entire month, with only a handful of sunny days scattered between the downpours. This is the sort of weather we usually have in August, and at this rate I’m expecting snow for my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
October 4th already? I feel like October snuck up on me, my lovely September as fleeting as the golden leaves which are all but gone from the trees already. The air is turning frost-crisp and cold, and I’m counting down the days until it snows. It’s the season were I get to feel even more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The last four weeks have been a perfect example of how my life gets thrown off track by housesitting. First I went housesitting two different places for a week, then immediately went to the writing workshop. The next week I was sick enough to feel ill, but not sick enough to get out of anything. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been one of those miserable, awful summers. Since April – April! – temperatures have lingered in the 80s, some weeks reaching up into the 90s. Most Alaskan summers it rarely gets above the mid 80s, with July being the rainy month. It’s been too hot to move, or even think. I’d say the heat […] ↓ 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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