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posted: April 6, 2025 |
This page actually begins with some collages that Look Back to our adventures in 2024. After that there are some shots of the Aurora Borealis, some Sunrise Time photos, and then a single photo of our adventure to Chena Hot Springs. Those photos are followed by a winter trip to Twelvemile and Eagle Summit, and four photos taken at home. After that are some shots of the International Ice Sculpting masterpieces at Ice Alaska. There is a single shot of the March 13th Lunar Eclipse and after that are some images taken from our Newest Book (Wildflowers of Alaska: An Addendum to our "Wildflowers of Interior Alaska"). Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| A Look Back at 2024 |
The first image in this row shows several cakes that Kazuya made for various events throughout the 2024 Calendar Year. The second shot shows some Nerikiri that Kazuya made for us to celebrate the Lunar New Year on January 29th - the beginning of the Year of the Snake.
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In this row are three images that show us on some of our 2024 mountain and other adventures.
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| End a Look Back, Begin January & February 2025 |
Here is a single Aurora Borealis photo and it is followed by two collages of the Aurora that Kazuya created.
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On January 18th we had an incredible sunrise time of day. Here are two panoramic images of that sunrise.
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Here are two more photos of that amazing January 18th sunrise.
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On February 4th we did a day trip out to Chena Hot Springs Resort where we soaked in the Rock Lake twice and also ate a really nice lunch while drinking a beer. A nice time was had.
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| Twelvemile & Eagle Summits |
On February 9th we did a day trip to the Twelvemile Summit and Eagle Summit areas. The first shot was taken from Cleary Summit and the other two photos were taken near Twelvemile Summit.
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The first two shots in this row were taken near Twelvemile Summit, while the third one was taken closer to Eagle Summit - note the moon in the third shot.
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These three shots show the moon. I tried my best to make the moon stand out better using Photoshop, but I could not make it really stand out. Oh well.
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The first two shots were taken near Eagle Summit and the third photo was taken at Underwear Turnout - a couple of miles past Eagle Summit on the Steese Highway. We call it Underwear Turnout because the first time we went there, the first thing we found while hiking was a pair of underwear.
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The first two shots in this row were also taken at the very windblown Underwear Turnout area. The third image, a 3-shot panorama shows the Eagle Summit area.
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These two shots were taken near Twelvemile Summit on our way home. Once again, note the moon in the second shot.
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| At Home |
We bought and installed some new Under Cabinet Lights - they light up the counter really nicely for working.
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In the first photo all of those tracks you see are moose tracks. We had placed an old squash on the top of that chunk of power pole. Moose love pumpkins and squash and one of them had a nice snack of the frozen and half-rotten squash during the night. The second shot shows some really strange melting of the snow on the top of this pile of birch rounds, very interesting.
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| Ice Alaska Ice Sculptures |
Now we are going to Ice Alaska - it takes place at the Fairgrounds and features the international championship ice sculpting event. There are single-block events, multi-block events, and more. I'll let the photos speak for themselves. We went early enough in the day to see things in the daylight, and then we went back (free same-day re-admission) at night so see what everything looked like under the lights.
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Here are three more images of the Ice Sculptures.
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Here are the final three photos of Ice Sculptures.
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| March 13th Lunar Eclipse |
Here is a single shot of the March 13th Lunar eclipse in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was a thin overcast night and therefore we got no super good photos of the red that goes with a Lunar Eclipse.
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| Some Pages from our Newest Book |
In this row are the Entire Cover of our newest book, then a 2-page spread of Pages 12 & 13 and then a 2-page spread of Pages 16 & 17.
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In this row are the 2-page spreads for Pages 30 & 31, Pages 34 & 35, and Pages 54 & 55.
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In this row are the 2-page spreads for Pages 58 & 59, Pages 64 & 65, and Pages 70 & 71.
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In this final row are the 2-page spreads for Pages 80 & 81, and Pages 44 & 85.
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