Polar Bear with Ball
posted over 5 years ago | 1 comment
The Alaska Zoo in Anchorage is within walking distance from our house so I go there sometimes for exercise and use my season pass. Ahpun the polar bear just got a new polar bear friend, Louie, from Australia. There are hopes for a pregnancy, but s...
Alaska State Fair
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The fair is known for its giant produce competition, with 100-pound pumpkins and other huge vegetables. It takes special seeds and and the long days we get in the summer. The fair is in the Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Valley an hour's drive north o...
Indian River Bridge
posted over 5 years ago, updated 15 days later | 1 comment
This is what we have to walk across to get to a good fishing spot on the Indian River. I don't much like crossing because the river is 30 feet down and we can't always hear a train coming from a long distance. We once saw two twenty-something guys...
Alaskan bus
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We stand next to the tracks to wait for the train and wave it down when it comes around the corner. The conductor takes our baggage when we hoist it up into the compartment. If we don't have the dog he asks us if we want the steps put down. We don...
Mountain view
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This is O'Malley Peak, one of several bordering the Anchorage "bowl," which is not a bowl, but a small triangular plain by the Cook Inlet, with a gradual slope up to the 4,000 to 5,000-foot-high mountains.
Chillin' on the cabin porch
posted over 5 years ago | 1 comment
Labor Day weekend 2006--perfect weather, but a few too many "no-see-ums"--biting gnats. Bug dope works, though. The cabin is about 150 miles north of Anchorage and 1/3 mile off the railroad tracks. We drive from Anchorage to Talkeetna, then take a...
View from Anchorage classroom
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This was my view for a few years until I was moved to the playground side of the school this year. The kids are fun to watch, but I miss the scenery during the day. I teach special education resource and have mostly students with learning disabili...
Mountain view of Anchorage
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This is at about 2,000 feet looking west down to Anchorage. Anchorage has about 270,000 people and spreads over a very large area along the mountains. It takes us over an hour and 15 minutes on the highway to go from one end to the other. Beautifu...
Snow's a comin'
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The fall colors (yellow birches down at city level, red tundra on the mountains) are at their peak.
Mountain peak destination
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My senior women's club on one of our weekly hikes. This one was especially strenuous.
