Double sun dogs in Fairbanks – 2-10-14
Fifteen degrees below zero, sunny and double sun dogs over the Chena River. Winter as it should be.
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Gilcher Building in Fairbanks displays city’s last old-time storefront
Gilcher Building in Fall 2013 The Gilcher Building at 524 Third Avenue in downtown Fairbanks (where River City Café is located) is the last example in the city of the storefront style found across...
“Thirty years of sketching Interior Alaska history” talk for Tanana-Yukon Historical Society on Feb. 19
Sketch of Blixt Cabin off the Elliott Highway I’ll be giving a presentation at the Tanana-Yukon Historical Society meeting on February 19th. The program will be about my historical art and writing and my...
Long shadows on a sunny day in the woods behind my house – February 2014
Photo taken in the woods behind out house at about 1:00 pm.
Hoar frost rose bush in Fairbanks
Weather in Fairbanks is tending back towards normal, which means it is getting colder. Yay! Was out taking photos in the woods behind out house and saw this prickly rose bush covered in ice.
Cool beats – Drum set ice sculpture in Fairbanks, Alaska
Icy drum set in front of Design Alaska, an Engineering and Design firm in Fairbanks, Alaska
1942 GMC truck and Northway Airfield – part of Alaska’s aviation history
The vehicle in the drawing is a 1942 GMC dump truck sitting on a hillside at about 1620 Mile of the Alaska Highway. Stenciled on the door is “Department of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Administration.”...
Snowy January fence in Fairbanks
Went for a walk late in the afternoon today and the atmospherics were lovely. Took this photo by the large community garden plot next to the river. Love the chiaroscuro effect.
Blue Crystal Water Company delivered tasty water to early Fairbanks residents
Blue Crystal Water Company well house on Cowles Street We take plentiful clean water for granted, but in early Fairbanks, clean water was a limited commodity. Most wells in Fairbanks were shallow — yielding...
