A stream forms through the snow on the Black Rapids Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range in mid-June. It's always a wet time when you are near the snowline (the boundary between snow-covered and snow-free) in the mountains, days on end trekking through deep slush.
I've got a lot of writing to do this week! I photographed and identified six wildflowers that will be added to add to my Alaska Wildflower Guide. Cat and I saw some interesting stuff along the lower Granite Tors trail yesterday. Hopefully, I'll have some more photos later today or tomorrow!
An aurora corona above the trees in late August. We have a little under three months before it gets dark enough again to see the aurora in Fairbanks, Alaska. I haven't seen much aurora while the leaves are still on the trees.
There were so many flowers yesterday despite it being so early in greening up at Table Top Mountain in the White Mountain National Recreation Area, Alaska.
Our cat, Monkey, is an indoor cat. Every once in a while, she sneaks out when we open the door, and sometimes, we let her stay outside for a few minutes. We haven't let her stay lately because we've frequently heard an owl nearby this spring. Yesterday, I let her out supervised, and she followed me around the trails in our front yard. I took some photos of her because she is absolutely adorable!
Yesterday was a fantastic day of hiking and photography in Alaska. I updated a wildflower guide, captured a black-capped chickadee collecting nest material, saw my first blooming wildflower of the season (northern kittentails), and hiked Wickersham Dome, unexpectedly meeting an old friend.
Meteor Peak, standing at 8,133 ft (2,478.94 m), along with the surrounding peaks of the Hayes Range, a subrange of the Alaska Range, towering over the Black Rapids Glacier in the foreground.