December sunset in Fairbanks from West Ridge – UAF
I just happened to be up on campus at about 2:30 this afternoon. Can you believe that this photo was taken only four hours after my sunrise photo?
December dawn in Fairbanks from Wendell Street bridge
I took this photo at about 10:30 this morning. Temperature was about 0 degrees F.
Painting of Murray’s Roadhouse near Fairbanks by Marge Gull
This is one of the paintings by Genevieve Marguerite (Marge) Gull that is in the collection of the Valdez Museum. Marge was an amateur painter who did paintings of the old roadhouses along the...
Wire, Snow & Sky – Late November 2015 in Fairbanks
Some close-ups of the fence around the community garden behind our house on a cold, snowy November day.
Outside on Black Friday – A snowy November day in Fairbanks
I took the opportunity today to go for a walk in the woods behind my house.There was 8-10″ of fresh snow, most of it still unspoiled by snow machines. Partly cloudy with a temperature...
Haydon cabin evokes memories of homesteading days along Chena Slough near Fairbanks
Cliff and Orea Haydon’s cabin pm Chena Slough in 2014 The Badger Road area was settled by homesteaders beginning in the early 1900s. However, before homesteaders started clearing land there was just Chena Slough...
“Ode of the North” by Joseph Ulmer (found tacked to the wall of a cabin on Deadwood Creek)
Take a drink with a friend or friends when you have a chance. When using a man’s cabin and before leaving wash the dishes, leave shavings and kindling and as much wood cut as...
“Gold, Steel & Ice” book documents remarkable mining machines used in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
I just received a fascinating book published this year by the U.S. Department of the Interior. The book is Gold, Steel & Ice, A History of Mining Machines in Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve....
Eureka Lodge has served Glenn Highway travelers since road’s inception
The original cabin at Eureka Lodge in 2013 The Glenn Highway, which stretches from Anchorage 179 miles northeast to the Richardson Highway, should perhaps have been named the Castner Highway. After all, Lt....
