On a hillside along the Steese Highway south of Fox, Alaska sits a relic of the Cold War, a “sno-freighter” used in the mid-1950s to move supplies from Central Alaska to the Arctic coast...
With snow on the ground here in Fairbanks I thought I would put up this drawing of wolverine tracks in the snow that I recently completed. This is another tiny drawing, only about 3.5″...
Yesterday was a drizzly rainy day here in Fairbanks. The precipitation let up for a while in the afternoon and I went out into the front yard to find sparkly raindrop decorations adorning everything....
View from Illinois Street looking east down Minnie Street towards Noyes Slough The powers that be keep talking about “improving ” Minnie Street,” which connects Illinois Street with the east side of town. Minnie...
I went for a long walk yesterday. Along Front Street between the Old Steese Highway and Noyes Slough I found quite a bit of fireweed that wasn’t beaten down during our last freakish snowstorm....
It got down to about 22 degrees F this morning. I went out and took a few photos in my front yard. These are wild iris (Iris setosa) seed pods next to the pool...
Snow from the recent storm is melting steadily. Many of the trees in our yard have dumped their remaining leaves since the storm, and the leaves are now melting into the snow. I think...
We have a bumper crop of ripe juniper berries in our front yard this year. They are not really berries, but the female cones. Unlike other conifers, the juniper cones have fleshy scales that...
When I was out taking photos of the woods behind my house i noticed these two examples of fungi ensconced among the bunchberries (Cornus canadensis) . These two fungi were within yards of each...
I walked through the spruce woods behind my house today and admired the ground dogwood (Cornus canadensis) that blanketed the forest floor. The dogwood (also called bunchberry) certainly brightens up the forest floor with...
