Hand-drawn map for Interior Sketches book
I have been working on a map for my upcoming book on historic sites in Interior Alaska. Since I love old hand-drawn maps, and in keeping with the subject matter and content of the...
Denali (Mt. McKinley) north and south
I drove down to Talkeetna last week. It was a beautiful cloudless day and I took photos of Denali from the north at Broad Pass, and from the south at Talkeetna.
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...
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...
Railroad changed Nenana forever
Nenana depot as it looked in 2012 In March 1914, Congress authorized the construction of a government railroad in the Territory of Alaska. The northern terminus of the railroad would be in Fairbanks,...
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...
Sullivan Roadhouse finds rebuilt life in Delta Junction
John and Florence Sullivan (veterans of the Klondike, Nome and Fairbanks gold rushes) built a sod-roofed log roadhouse during the winter of 1905-06 midway along the 55-mile-long Donnelly-Washburn Cut-off. The cut-off was a Valdez-Fairbanks...
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...
