Friends   ---

This blog is mostly about the early summer flowers in and around Fairbanks.

bluebells

highbush cranberries

Ok, perhaps these are not flowers, in fact these fill the air with much wind.  Both cottonwood trees and aspens put out millions of seed puffs.

This is Fairbanks on a sunny June afternoon.

Far in the distance is the Alaska range, 150 to 200 miles south.

Very small flowers in Barrow Alaska.  The cluster is probably about the size of a dime.

Wild flowers

Cabin of a friend where some of the flowers were.

 Moose

Mosquito, wings about 8 feet high.  Most live ones are not this large.

Lilac, some lilac are still blooming.

These next three pictures are of a native cemetery.

This is a tree coming up through asphalt walking path.  God has make things survive and even thrive in this cold area.

Wild iris, these are common.

Wild roses, these are also common

Wild strawberries, also common.  I ate some of these the other day, small, not a lot of flavor, but good.

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The white flowers are strawberries.

The first half of June was dry.  Then there was a lot of rain.  There was more rain this June than any previous recorded.  Records have been kept since 1912.  A heavy wild fire season had been predicted, but now that is almost impossible, at least for the next month.  New record rainfall for the month of June   ---   3.56 inches.  I remember getting over 8 inches in one night in Fort Dodge!

Officially there has been only one day over 80 degrees so far this summer.  Are you suffering from the heat?  Try Alaska!  Yesterday the high was in the upper 50's with constant rain.  The length of sun time is over 21 hours.

Elva and I now have a little less than a month remaining for our stay in Alaska.

Thanks for your interest.

Larry and Elva