I walked through the spruce woods behind my house today and admired the ground dogwood (Cornus canadensis) that blanketed the forest floor. The dogwood (also called bunchberry) certainly brightens up the forest floor with...
Gathering berries on a drizzly taiga hillside, I chance across a spider gathering raindrops in her web, Pass by her berry-laden bush, And bring home memories instead.
Building 23 (Eva’s Place) at Pioneer Park as it looked in 1989 One of the oldest buildings at Pioneer Park (formerly Alaskaland) is associated with Eva McGown, who was known as Fairbanks’...
Because of the hot dry weather earlier this summer, the blueberry harvest right around Fairbanks has been disappointing. However, on a scouting expedition up the Steese Highway about a month ago we found a promising...
When we went up to Murphy Dome we didn’t see many blueberries, but we did find several nice patches of lowbush cranberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), also called lingonberries. The cranberries were ripening up nicely and...
We drove up to Murphy Dome last week looking for blueberries. Didn’t find many berries, but the view was fantastic! This panorama is looking southwest. That’s our camper at the right edge of the...
Ladd Field commander’s quarters on North Post. Completed in 1941, it is one of the oldest buildings on Fort Wainwright Ladd Field, now Fort Wainwright, began as a cold-weather testing facility. Named after...
I was planning to drive somewhere but when I went out to get into my truck I found this little fellow sitting on the windshield wiper, chirping away. I couldn’t bear forcing it to...
This past Sunday I drove down to Chitina with my son-in-law, Brian Lotze, to go dip-netting for salmon. Our destination was O’Brien Creek, about 2 miles south of Chitina along the old Copper...
