Late winter is ice carving time in Fairbanks. Right now the 2012 World Ice Art Championship is underway, but carvers have been producing ice sculptures around town since January. Ice angel earlier this month...
Gold dredges have majorly changed the landscape around Fairbanks. At one time or another there have been about eight dredges operating in the area’s valleys. These dredges, which floated in their own man-made ponds,...
I took these photos yesterday after a light dusting of snow. They show the bluff at the base of College Hill at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The bluff overlooks the Chena River...
I am slowly turning our front yard into a native species garden. Years ago I planted several clumps of wild Alaska iris (Iris setosa) and have found the plants to be just a beautiful...
The University of Alaska (established in 1915 as the Alaska College of Agriculture and School of Mines) sits on a ridge with a commanding view of the Tanana and Chena River flats. People...
It was a beautiful day today–clear and about 25 degrees F. above zero (shirt-sleeve weather). I’ve been wanting to take photos of the snow on top of our arbor gate, and this was...
I love back yards. They show so much about the true character of the house’s residents. Both of these photos show the back yard of the house at 303 Illinois Street, here is Fairbanks....
Coal bunkers as they looked in 1994 Fairbanks was never a coal-mining town, but coal did help Fairbanks recover from the lean times of the late 1910s and early 1920s. In 1910 about 11,000...
The moose are back. Every year towards the end of winter, as the snow piles up in the hills and food sources diminish, many moose move down into the valleys and flatlands. Some migrate...
At 1:00 pm today it was -40° (doesn’t matter whether I say Fahrenheit or Celsius, they’re both the same at 40 below). We had heavy ice fog, and the sun barely cleared the buildings...
