Rumbleinthearctic — A blog about Life in the US

Temperatures have dropped again, and today we have -32C...again. The ice fog creates this glowing light that is just beautiful to see. There is a constant sparkling outside my window as the sun hits these particles. Hard to take pictures of, but I think I managed:

It also creates this beautiful sund dog.

This past week you could actually see Denali peaking out. It was beautiful

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

In the Woods

Me and W have ventured off on a small adventure. We Drove up to northern Wisconsin and will be here for a couple of days. From a flat agricultural landscape down south, Wisconsin develops a thick and beautiful forest as you drive north.

I need to learn all tree species here, because I hardly know any of them.

We are going to drive even further north than what we are now. Almost close to the border of Canada. It is a little bit funny, that someone from Alaska just can't get enough of the cold, snow and darkness, even on holidays :)

We have been fairly lucky with the weather, although I think the cold and snow follows me. Last year when we went to the desert it was one of the coldest winters ever, and here it has been colder and more snow than usual...

Have a nice Day :)

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!!