A frosty January stroll
The really frigid temperatures are waning, so I have been trying to get out more. The temperature got up to about -25° F today so I walked down to the Chena River, about a...
Tagged: Fairbanks
Found Art – Snowy Fences
Fences are like trees in some ways. Their character changes with the seasons. These photos are of the fence surrounding the community garden plots near out house. Just for your information, the fence is...
West Coast Grocery warehouse and a ghost of Christmas past
West Coast Grocery warehouse as it looked in early winter, 2011 The unpretentious metal-sided building at 318 Driveway Street (across from the News-Miner building) looks similar to the NC Company warehouse at the...
Found Art – Raven Gravings
I was out walking today—we had fresh snow yesterday and it was about 10 degrees above zero (F). Near my house is a field with an old split rail fence, and raven tracks...
Desjardin-Stroecker Farm–a remnant of early Fairbanks agriculture
Desjardin-Stroecker farm as it looked in 1995 The Desjardin-Stroecker Farm, located at 2.5 mile on Farmer’s Loop Road, is one of the few remaining signs of Fairbanks, Alaska’s agricultural past (besides Creamer’s Dairy, which...
Valdez-Fairbank Trail, a lifeline for early Interior Alaskans
Stage operated by Ed S. Orr between Fairbanks and Valdez The Ed S. Orr Stage Co., also called the Fairbanks-Valdez Stage Co., was the most successful of several stage lines that operated along the...
Winter Sunrise at Birch Hill Cemetery, Fairbanks, Alaska
Clear and 20 degrees below zero. Life is good. I hiked up to Birch Hill Cemetery a couple of days ago to watch the sunrise. (Sunrise was at 10:15 am.) Birch hill is a...
Raven’s Brew tops Starbucks in Fairbanks
or maybe it should be “Raven’s Crew tops Starbucks.” Item – Ravens in Fairbanks, after a busy day of dumpster diving and food recycling, used to fly home to their roosts, which were...
All that’s left of Eldorado – Chatanika Valley, Alaska
Eldorado Creek building as it looked in 1994 The Tanana Valley Railroad (which operated from 1905 to 1930 under various names and owners) used to run 35 miles from Fairbanks to Chatanika through country...
If Vincent Van Gogh was a Paperboy
“The Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh – 1889 Delivering newspapers at 40 degrees below zero (part 1) The temperatures here is Fairbanks are dipping into the negative numbers at night, which reminds me...
