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The first dusting of snow on the mountains by Anchorage lore, marks the end of summer.  This change, in the past, more often than not, came ...

The sun's been out most days.  Today it was something over 70.  And there's lots of flower blooming all over town.  But particularly...

Summer began the last couple of days.  Today is magnificent.  I went to a rally against guns in Fairview and here are a couple of shots of t...

It's not exactly like having new house guests throughout the summer, because most of these flowers are perennials who live here all year...

It's summer enough that we are using the deck a lot now.  Breakfast, lunch, dinner, if it's not raining or too cold, we're out t...

Forget-me-nots OK, some might argue that there were some great winter days, but today was by far the best summer day of the year.  The w...

Crossed over the bridge in Campbell Creek Park off Lake Otis and kids were swimming in the creek. (I was going to say 'cold creek' b...

As we hit June, more and more flowers are opening for their summer, above ground vacation. The forget-me-not seems the perfect flo...

It's summer, and this was the consequence of my lapse into un-Buddhist like impulses.  But it turned out I'd already made my firs...

The best room in the house isn't in the house.  It's our summer extra room - on the deck.  Here's what I saw when I looked at t...

Our backyard thermometer read 80˚F this afternoon though I'm sure the official temperature in Anchorage didn't get that high.  We ro...

I was on my bike when I saw the three moose walking across the empty lot that once was a trailer park.   I barely had time to get my came...

Technically, it's summer.  But except for the sun and relative warmth of half of April, it's been more like the summers of the late ...

At the last minute we ended up with friends enjoying the lovely evening eating salmon on their deck.  Pretty simple.  Just good talk...

I was busy today and lots to post, but I was busy so this is filler and maybe I'll catch up.   I'd forgotten how beautiful Anchorage...

Aphid honeydew. Gunk. Particularly under cottonwoods, there are large sticky wet spots. If you stand under the true for a minute it feel...