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Tag: Nature

  • Labor Day Guests

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    An overcast, drizzly Labor Day was brightened by a visit from some feral friends …a single mom and her youngun’. Fortunately, we didn’t have to prepare a large meal … strict vegetarians, they insisted on trimming the shrubbery 😊 “All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The…

  • Labor Day Levity

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    Hope this Labor Day holiday proves to be an extra-special one for y’all. Thought perhaps some might enjoy some ‘laborless’ levity from up here in wilds of the Last Frontier. Yesterday our game cam captured a truly incredible incident right in our front yard … a mythological Bigfoot emerging from the woods chasing a wild…

  • Uncertainty Therapy

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    The Last Frontier summer is rapidly fading into fall, and this aging ragamuffin’s fall season of life has already experienced winter’s first snows.   Uncertainty is a certainty of life. Lately, life’s uncertainties have been edging into my ponderings. A comforting quote I recently heard helps mitigate the ‘worry’ of uncertainty … “Write your plans…

  • Cycle of Life

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    Yesterday we awoke to 2026’s first summer/fall transition snowfall … after all … it is August here in the Last Frontier A short road trip to Hatcher Pass was in order. Here’s a few summer/fall transition snowfall scenes that delighted our eyes with wonder. While Ellie chose to stay in the car, I took off…

  • Rainbow Promise Prints

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    A woods wander, interspersed with sunshine and rain, was graced with my Creator’s celestial watercolors. “Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and a rainbow occurs in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy…

  • Glacial Grandeur

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    In the Chugach Range lies the magnificent Matanuska Glacier. Creeping slowly forward at a rate of 1ft./day, this 27 miles long, 4 miles wide colossal frozen sheet births the headwaters of the Matanuska River, and is the largest glacier in the United States accessible by car. Practically in our front yard just 25 miles up…

  • Sustained … Carried … Rescued

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    This summer has found many in the Lower 48 battling oppressive heat, raging wildfires, and devastating floods. Gratefully we’ve been spared such maladies. It’s been cooler and damper than normal summer in the Last Frontier, with sunshine at a premium. Being a sunshine fan, were it possible, I would negotiate with Mother Nature to restrict…

  • Wonder-Weed

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    It’s been a cooler than normal summer thus far in the Last Frontier. Today we awoke to a fresh dusting of snowflakes on mountains peaks, and ‘seed-flakes’ on the ground. A single dandelion plant can bloom multiple times each season with multiple flower heads producing over 15,000 seeds. Every puffy whitedandelion blowball seed head contains…

  • Happy 4th!

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    From our Last Frontier abode to yours we wish y’all an extra-special 4th of July together. This little guy showed up on our deck this morning with some squirrely life advice 😊. . . “Look both ways before you cross the road Stay active Eat plenty of fiber Confuse your enemies, change direction Be bright…

  • Last Frontier Father’s Day

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    Hope y’all enjoyed a great Father’s Day. Yesterday Grant made the 70-mile trek from Anchorage’s ‘big city’ environs to the wilds of Chickaloon to spend the day together canoeing, fishing for trout, and 4-wheeling through the boondocks … a 5* Father’s Day! … (No, I didn’t actually bite into that trout 😊) “This is the…