By the 1930s, residents of Fairbanks were fed up with the fires that plagued downtown. In its short life, the city had already experienced two district-consuming conflagrations and numerous other building fires. Consequently, in...
I am working on a drawing of Creamer’s Dairy and popped out there yesterday to check on some building details. While I was there I took some more photos. At left is a photo...
The Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) is a distant cousin of trout and salmon. It tastes great and is fun to catch. With its sail-like dorsal fin and streamlined body, it is one of the...
Contrary to a popular misconception, there are groundhogs (Marmota monax) in Alaska, and they are not recent immigrants. I read one misinformed blog post that said they hitchhiked to Alaska after the Alaska...
The rainy season is upon us, and so are the mushrooms. I was up at Birch Hill Cemetery, on the northeast corner of Fairbanks, and took these photos of some of the mushrooms I...
The watering hole in out front yard There is a small fresh water pool in my from yard, partially sheltered by the branches of a juniper. Nearby there are some small birch trees and...
On the same day we visited the Nordale Adit at the head of Wolf Creek, we also drove to the other side of the ridge and hiked in to the McCarty Stamp Mill at...
Creeping juniper, (Juniperus horizontalis) About five years ago I planted the two species of juniper that are native to Alaska, creeping juniper (Juniperus horizontalis) and common juniper (Juniperus communis), in our front yard. I...
We drove out to the Wolf Creek area northeast of Fairbanks this weekend to take a look at the Nordale Adit—the entrance to an old hard-rock gold mine. The mine (on the north side...
The simple but graceful two-story building at 815 First Ave. began life as the First Avenue Bath House. In the early 1900s, indoor plumbing was a rarity in the Fairbanks area and hot baths...
