These photos were taken on a foggy morning in September during the brief autumn brilliance. I especially liked the moody feel of the misty driveway. Today the driveway is under several inches of [...]
I realize this is hard to distinguish, but it’s the lasting image left by a bear visitor we had last month. There had been no rain for weeks and everything was covered with pollen, [...]
Lek is a new word I learned this year, meaning A lek is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays and courtship rituals, known as lekking, to entice visiting [...]
Through the lacy trees at this time of year, Denali is visible in the distance towards sundown. Recent clear – and COLD (-20s in the day!) – has brought some gorgeous sunsets lately. [...]
It’s a spruce grouse in a birch tree (our version of partridge in a pear tree!). Lots of grouse about this year – large groups in the road doing their thing (but not responsive to [...]
This is a bit hard to see, but the stem of the stunted sunflower rises from the flower box to the tray above which holds seeds. Usually, the bird cafe doesn’t open until the killing frost [...]
This is what happens when it rains for weeks on end! My husband thought it could be a table for the voles to play poker around – I liked that image! It was crushed a day later when it was [...]
This car crashed off the Elliott Hwy just before last winter began, landing on the only boulders in the area. It stayed there all through the winter unmolested. Then as the spring revealed it [...]