Tag / snow
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Wounded Pride
I went in search of beauty. Jeep filled up with gas, headed out toward Pigniq… I thought the old hangar looked particularly nice. I thought I saw the entrance to the old…
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Drifting
Yesterday a fellow photographer and I went for a drive. We saw an arctic fox, a polar bear, and polar bear tracks. But one of the things I thought was particularly beautiful…
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Saying goodbye to the sun
On the 18th the sun went down for the last time until it comes back up again on January 24, but that doesn’t mean that it is completely dark all the time. …
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Back to life in Barrow… for now
Back to life in the Arctic. I find sea ice fascinating. I went for a walk this week to see how it was coming along. I found the water covered, but it…
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Driftwood, Point Barrow
Last weekend I took my visitors out as far north as the road would take us. Honestly, I didn’t think we’d get much further than the old airfield, but the the snow…
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The great owl invasion
Every October the snowy owls seem to invade town. This year is no different. Some friends from Anchorage and beyond came up for a quick visit hoping to see polar bears. While…
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Early Winter Walk
This weekend I had the pleasure of helping to entertain visiting best-selling author Dana Stabenow. We went in search of snowy owls on the outskirts of town. While we didn’t find any…
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With September came Winter
Earlier this week we had 4.4 inches of snow. Before it had accumulated that much I went outside during a break in the weather. I loved how the whale vertebra on the…
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T is for Tuttu
With the return of the sun, it seems like life is starting to wake up again in the arctic. Maybe this is just my perception after holing up in the house during…
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Snow. It’s August.
So living in the arctic is something of an adventure and you learn to expect what most would consider unexpected. One day of snow in August… eh, it’s the arctic. It happens.…
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