A life of Adventures
When spring comes to Alaska everyone magically forgets all about winter and the 40 below days. It's classic, anyone from any country or part of the world where temperatures drop during the wintertime experiences the exact same thing.
To me it meant I could start think about my garden, what I should plant and so on. Tycho was also very excited :) He roamed around like never before.
It also mean the semi start of the summer I guess. Mosquitos merged with BBQ and beer on the porch.
It's always nice to go through old pictures on the computer and realize how different the season called "spring" can turn out. Last year for instance we had a lot more snow during the wintertime and so it took a bit longer for the snow to melt away, compare to this year.
These pictures below are from late March- mid April last year, I would say we are maybe one or two weeks ahead of last year right now.
Field work will probably begin pretty soon, although not personal fieldwork for me, just the regular baseline sampling to keep it simple. I don't know if I will start going out pretty soon or not, although I am usually not a big fan of leaving for field alone in early spring. Previous years we have been seeing quite a lot of bear activity so I assume this spring wouldn't be different. We have both black bears and grizzlies in the watershed so quite a spread of bears, and of course there is a pack of wolves that are running through the area from time to time too.
As always, when I think: this is the beginning of spring, we get snow. I should know this by now, but I guess I always look on the bright side :) And to be honest, this snowfall we had didn't really generate that much snow. It's practically all melted off the sidewalks now, less on the colder parts like my backyard. The weather forecast for this week looks kind of warm, as in around 45F (6-8C) and of course below freezing during the night. Slowly slowly we are getting closer to spring. People have reported cranes!! Already! crazy.
Precis som alltid då jag tänker: nu kommer verkligen våren, så får vi snö. Jag borde veta detta vid det det här laget, men jag antar att jag alltid försöker se på den ljusa sidan :) Och för att vara helt ärlig så fick vi inte sådär jättemycket snö. Det har faktiskt redan smält från trottoarkanterna, mindre på de kallare ställena, som på min bakgård. Väderprognosen visar varmt väder, alltså run 6-8 grader C, och under nollan på natten. Sakta men säkert så kommer vi ändå närmare våren. Och jag har till och med hört rapporter om tranor, redan! Helt galet!!
