Archive for the 'seasons' Category

Tree is up and mostly decorated

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Tis the season, and the tree has been decorated… mostly.  I suppose it looks a little barren, but it’s still a pretty tree.  All outdoorsy looking with red apples and poinsettia flowers adorning it, clusters of holly here and there and garlands made of drops of faux crystals suspended from brown thread so they seem […]

Snow

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Got snow here today, dumped a fair amount on us too.  Looks like it decided to make up for the missed snowfall of the past couple of weeks.  Right now there is about eight inches of snow in the yard and it is still coming down at a fairly good pace.  The below picture was […]

Snow’s back

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Getting ready to go to bed (yes at 8 in the morning) and there is snow outside.  Not very deep, just a light enough dusting to have everything out there looking white.  Looks like maybe 2 inches, possibly less.  I could have gone with a nice warm winter with no snow at all, but I […]

Snow is here to stay

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Well, fellow Alaskan’s, it looks like the snow is here to stay.  I’ve seen a few places already decorated with twinkling lights even - they’re either ready to get the winter over with faster or they are very very into the holidays — they seem to have bypassed Halloween and Thanksgiving and moved straight on […]

Winter comes, when can I expect summer again?

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

The trees have lost their green, the once vibrant leaves all but fallen to the ground.  Mountains that were not so long ago cleared of snow have once again been carpeted in layers of white.
Driving in to town yesterday I was wishing I had my camera.  It was just before the sun set and the […]