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Endless snow

Sometimes we tend to forget about the fact that winter in Alaska stretches over several months. A couple of weeks ago I for sure thought it was spring time, snow was melting and they finally plowed the bike/walk lane from my house to work. Blue sky and sunshine, bad skitrails and I was really looking forward to an earlier spring this year. [gallery type="rectangular" ids="1867,1866,1861,1863"]

But then the weather in Alaska switches pretty fast, and before we knew it we were back with snow and below freezing temperatures.

And then again the weather turns and we are back to that endless dripping. Drip, drop, drip, drop, all day the snow that accumulated is continuing to melt. According to the research group at UAF we actually had less snow than normally, but we don't really care about that now, now we just want all that snow to go away. Well, at least I want.

Tycho doesn't really like the snow when it's this crunchy and unstable, and he tend to freak out when he sinks into the snow.

We tend to have a frequent visitor by the house, a squirrel....I guess it is a love hate relationship. He/she is not affecting the cabin...but he is stealing the bird food....sneaky little creature.

Anyway, we have above freezing temperatures and the sun rises early, and sets really late. So the spring is definitely on its way (cross your fingers).

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Posted on April 17, 2014 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Alaska, Photography, The great wide open, Tycho - The Kitty Cat, Cabin Life and tagged Alaska Cat Fun Happiness Sun Winter 2014 Cabin Life_ Spring Snow Mountains Fairbanks.

Friday Theme - Six Month Checkup

Since me and W went to Chicago last Friday I completely forgot about the Friday theme. Some of the themes this year have been hard for me, and others I just haven't had time to sit down and write them. But one theme I do love is the six month checkup. Because you go through six months of your life, and present some pictures that you feel represent the different months and what you were doing then.

July:

July came and we finally had a real summer, with temperatures around 30 C frequently. It got that hot already in June too, which is pretty rare. Of course everyone were worried about the forest fires. But this year wasn't as bad as one would have thought. Although we did have a fire close to Fairbanks....but that one was caused by the military who had an artillery training during red flag...(no comments...)... so yeah that fire continued during the whole summer, along with a few others of course. The weather was hot, the mosquitos and black flies were really bad, and the smoke was pretty bad from time to time.

I always take pictures of the cats, this one on the left side is one of my favorites of Olive. The light was really special because of the smoke from the fire. And Tycho of course, above.

I also had a wonderful garden and made jam and pickles throughout the summer :)

I had long field days, early morning and late evenings

August:

In August it started to rain, and by the end of august a naked Fall had arrived. In early August i went down to Ninilchik to see Trampled by Turtles and Brandi Carlile. It was a typical Alaskan festival, with rain, Extra Tufs, and a little bit of sunshine.

As the leaves were turning colors temperature were starting to drop and the last leaves of the fireweed flowers were soon gone too. I shipped Olive to Madison and Tycho was wondering what happened to her. And then I got a full load of wood for the winter that was approaching.

September:

September came, and I went to Missoula and saw one of the most beautiful weddings ever! Such a beautiful location to have a wedding. I really want to move to Montana!!

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October:

October arrived with Aurora of course

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November:

November arrived with snow, finally!! And colorful sunsets, and sunrises.

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December:

December came with freezing temperatures, but beautiful sunsets and sunrises, and Aurora again.

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And then I got to Madison and me and W adventured out to Chicago for some real spring weather, around 50 F!!

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Happy New year to you! Hope your year was as awesome as mine!

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Alaska, Friday Theme, Nature, Photography, The great wide open, Tycho - The Kitty Cat, Wisconsin, Cabin Life and tagged Alaska Aurora Aurora Borealis Cat Cats Colours Evening Fall field fieldseason Friday Theme Garden Happiness Missoula Montana Northern Lights Outdoors Photography Photography with Iphone Salmonstock Trampled by Turtles Winter 2013 Cabin Life Sunrise Sunset Snow Nature Environment Frost Fieldwork.

Perspective

October 25th:

I love my SLR camera, but I also love the ability to take picture anytime anywhere with my Iphone. Bringing my Iphone and my SLR camera has really improved the quality of my Iphone pictures. And by quality I do not mean the actual pixels, but the composition of the pictures. You can do a lot of things with your Iphone. You just have to look at it from the right perspective.

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