I made it through on several of these patches, but decided I'll wait another week to see if my regular run up to Campbell Airstrip is ice free. But the views of the creek from the various bridges is, as always, wonderful.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Campbell Creek - Still Some Snow
Biked over to Campbell Creek yesterday to see if the snow was gone from the trail as it is from the Chester Creek trail from UAA to Goose Lake and on around to Alaska Native Medical Health Consortium (ANMHC). It's close, but there are still snowy/icy/slushy spots like this one.
I made it through on several of these patches, but decided I'll wait another week to see if my regular run up to Campbell Airstrip is ice free. But the views of the creek from the various bridges is, as always, wonderful.
I made it through on several of these patches, but decided I'll wait another week to see if my regular run up to Campbell Airstrip is ice free. But the views of the creek from the various bridges is, as always, wonderful.
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Glorious photographs! The colour of the water SO end of winter. Your neck of Alaska is so very similar to ours in eastern Canada. The earth is slowly reappearing and "soon" (another 5-6 weeks) it will be hard to imagine winter ever happened.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in So. California and would never go back to subtle-to-no seasons in a year.
We have just come through a long, cold, snowy -- and unremittingly grey -- winter. My husband is an en plein air oil painter year round and spends 5 days a week outside in the woods, regardless of the weather. Talk about "forest bathing"... He was in a craft show last Saturday and sold 42 paintings, all but two were summer paintings: GREEN, lush, warm. We are starved for summer up here and John provided a true, tangible, very inexpensive glimpse of what is coming.
But would it be so sweet without the winter? Yesterday, it was sunny and 50 degrees by end of day. People were smiling at each other, shoulders down, a spring in their step.
But, not surprisingly, in our hot, humid summers he sells snow paintings by multiple dozens. He needs to or we would be up to our ... in paintings.
It was his 11th winter and he paints his panels quickly (3 a day), as every tree is a sun dial and no light, weather condition stays the same for very long. And no day of the year its without beauty, in the woods.
Thanks Barbara for the ode to winter, summer, and just being outside. My first real winter (I can remember) was as a student in Germany. Coming from LA I was entranced with the snow and no one complained that I volunteered to shovel the sidewalk. But by April, I understood why California transplants from the east talked so lovingly about spring - they were just so tired of the grey and cold of winter. And after extolling the change of seasons their first two years out west, by the third year they mostly wouldn't exchange the California weather for those seasonal changes.
DeleteI still appreciate the subtle differences in the seasons in LA. But I learned, as a Peace Corps trainer on Hawaii, that east coasters saw no beauty on the dry Kona side of the island while westerns did.
In Alaska I appreciate that we live in two very different worlds - with subtle overlays. There's the green world of summer and the white world of winter. The overlay is the long light of summer days and short light of winter.
It so light so late in the early summer months, that every day feels like two days. :D
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