Ravens at Byers Lake
We are stopping at the Byers Lake Wayside on the Parks Highway on a regular basis for our jobs. Two ravens frequent the parking lot by the outhouses there, bumming for handouts. During one...
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Caribou along Denali Highway
For the past month I have been on the road a lot–a temporary job earning money to support my art habit. I’m driving regularly up and down the Parks Highway and parts of...
Licked by a moose
We drove down to the Talkeetna area this past weekend and stayed in a B&B at Trapper Creek. When we came out on Sunday morning we found our truck and that of some fellow...
Fox tracks in the snow
I followed fox tracks through the fresh snow for probably 45 minutes yesterday morning. The fox had obviously been hunting and its tracks crisscrossed the woods behind my house, weaving back and forth over...
Late winter walk in the woods – hips, berries, leaves and cones
We have fresh snow and I went tramping through the woods today. Here are a few of my discoveries. Left – Rose hips Right – Highbush cranberries ...
White Seal Dock a reminder of Fairbanks early waterfront
White Seal Dock as it looked in Fall 2012 According to the book, Fairbanks, a City Historic Building Survey, few of Fairbanks’ early commercial buildings remain. Most were destroyed by the numerous fires and...
Immaculate Conception Church on a brilliantly sunny (but frigidly cold) February day
Today was a beautiful sunny day. Of course, the temperature when I woke up this morning was 30 degrees below zero–oh well. Here is a photo of Immaculate Conception Church from across the new...
Log cabin post office is about the only building left along historic Valdez Creek
Valdez Creek post office in the 1990s The small log cabin shown in the drawing, built by miner Leburn Wickersham in the early 1900s, is one of the last buildings at the old mining...
Gnarled trees with no leaves under snowy eaves
I was out walking today taking photos of old buildings. These trees up against an old garage caught my eye. The photos are of the same group of trees from three different angles.
Moose tracks in the fresh snow
Usually, all we get coming through the neighborhood in winter is cow moose with calves. This morning a young bull moose hopped over our highbush cranberry hedge into the front yard. He breezed through...
