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A day late, but ...
We got our first snow night before last, so yesterday I woke up to the backyard looking like this:
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It's just like this sometimes
There's an actively growing 500-acre wildfire about ten miles north of us right now. I'm not particularly concerned; there are crews on it, it's on the other side of a river and it's also north of the municipal firebreak (a stripe of cleared land that surrounds the town as a fire control measure). However, it's producing a vaguely thunderhead- ( Read more... ) -
Snowwwww
Posted some snow pictures on Tumblr (also on Facebook). We have absolutely ridiculous amounts of snow right now. We got about a foot and a half in the last two days, on top of all the snow we already had.
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Fall harvest
I can't believe how early autumn is hitting us this year. We had a frost a few nights ago that killed all the outside plants and some of the greenhouse plants, so today I'm harvesting potatoes and getting the greenhouse stuff in. Since most of the squash and pumpkin plants are still alive, I'm leaving the less-ripe ones on the vine for another week ( Read more... ) -
Urgh
There's a pretty big wildfire north of town right now. It's not dangerous to us, and not likely to be - it's about 20 miles away and would have to go through a whole lot of subdivisions and the Trans-Alaska pipeline to get to us. However, the air quality is absolutely horrendous (I wore one of Orion's air-filter shop masks while I was doing garden ( Read more... ) -
Midsummer colors
A couple of bright pictures from a few nights ago (we sometimes get these beautiful glowy midnights on nights when there's cloud cover to diffuse the light, but still the all-night sunset colors that we tend to get around midsummer here).
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