Posts tagged #Northern Lights

A Cabin In The Woods

A couple of weeks ago we had temperatures around -26 - -36 C quite frequently. Back then they were talking about -40 again as the lows but nowadays we are back up to above freezing. But back then I was (well I still am sitting) sitting in front of my wood stove with my kitty cat and relaxing. The good news are that it's getting lighter, and equinox already passed. When it's lighter the chances of crashing with moose is also significantly lower.. Another good thing about life here lately is the aurora. It has been active most of february but now it's really tampering off....

The Aurora is usually pretty consistent, at least in the northern hemisphere. If the nordic countries see the aurora, it is pretty likely Alaska will too.

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.

Aurora again

I spent thanksgiving down south in Wasilla at my friends place. It usually doesn't get that cold down there but it got down to -10 F. We originally had plans to go out and get a christmas tree but decide to skip that because of the weather. The whole weekend was pretty relaxed and I really enjoyed just being able to hang out and not really do anything specific. My friends husbands family has an awesome house with a spectacular view. Truly mind blowing, and we went over there the other day and I took some pictures from their "yard". And of course if you know me, I love mountains so yeah, that is what I take pictures off, right of their porch basically:

Beautiful sunset:

When I got back to Fairbanks the temperature was around -29F, and I happened to see that the Northern lights were out again. So of course I had to take some pictures. Here is the cabin I live at with the Aurora, I have to admit it does look like a christmas tale, or what do you think?

Home sweet home: