Window Thinking
We have a hobby fruit orchard on our property. The trees had already been seasonally pruned when we put an offer on the house in March 2022, and a new growth cycle was just beginning. When Ethan and I flew down from Alaska to help my parents move into the house a couple months later, …
They call it an atmospheric river – all the rain that has been falling and falling and falling and falling on us these recent days. The temperatures have been warm. Old records are breaking, new records are setting. It’s a gloomy contrast to a week ago when we were on the tail end of a …
I took my sadness to the dahlia fields and let it walk in beauty.
Tomorrow is Ryan’s birthday which has become a marking point during our Alaska years – will we get our Anchorage winter snow pack started by his birthday? This year, it seems we have. (and right on schedule) Most afternoons lately I have been hanging out with our chickens – ever since a hawk swooped down …
A mellow sun hangs low this afternoon and autumn is fading out. (I took this photo on the 18th, but I got distracted while looking for 17 beats. Thus, the delay in posting.)
Sunrise before 9am and coming three minutes earlier EVERY day! Even more – what a gift when day breaks open like this….
David and I always go to the backyard and check on the chickens when we get back from our nightly walk-the-dog-around-the-block. Last night, after saying goodnight to the chickens, we were on our way back to the house when David stopped and pointed over our roof, Are those lights? I stopped and stepped back to …
Our Golden Campine died yesterday. I am not ready to sort words and try to make meaning out of the tears we have cried since Ryan brought her limp body into the house yesterday morning. By grace, the end was gentle and before she left us she opened her eyes, sipped some water Ethan offered …
It’s always a long winter season of whites and greys and brown here. We got off to a good snow start this year and have had snow on the ground since the end of October. Not exactly complaining! Snow is far better than icy, wet in our long winter dark!! But we haven’t had any …
We’ve come through another dark winter here in Anchorage and light is returning at a rate of nearly 6 additional minutes/day. This picture is from my walk at 8:30p, just after sunset last night. Deep winter dark is behind us now and the 24/7 light is coming at us fast. I’ve lived the dramatic dark/light/dark/light …