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posted: October 2nd, 2021 |
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This page begins with September 2nd, our second and final day in Denali National Park. After that we jump to September 4th when we went out for a walk up the road. The next date you'll find on this page is September 12th and a walk around the yard and also another walk up the road. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| Begin September 2nd |
Okay, now it's September 2 and we are spending part of today in Denali National Park, and then we'll head for home. Here are three amazing autumn color shots. It was more sunny today than it was yesterday, so colors came out more brilliant than they did yesterday.
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In first position in this row is an autumn color shot and that is followed by two shots of Whitish Gentian (Gentiana algida) which we found as we hiked the Savage River Trail.
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Here is a shot of me on the Savage River Trail - a trail which goes downstream on one side of the river, then the trail crosses a bridge and goes back to the starting point (after crossing the highway bridge). The center shot shows another Whitish Gentian (Gentiana algida).
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Here is a shot of Kazuya on the trail, a shot of me on the bridge and then another autumn color shot - the final one.
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During this trip to Denali we saw the smallest number of animals we have ever seen. As we were driving back to the park entrance we saw this bunch of vehicles stopped and knew they'd spotted an animal or animals of some kind. The tourists were going crazy over a cow moose or two and one bull moose. This was during the rut, so it seemed to us that these stupid people were just doing their very best to try and get attacked by an angry (and horny) bull moose. There were park rangers doing their best to keep people from blocking the road, going into the brush and getting themselves killed, but it was crazy. We did not even stop.
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Just north of Nenana there is a restaurant named "The Monderosa". This is a Mondy Burger. These are SO delicious, and they are flame charred, so they do not have a great deal of grease in them. When you finish, you have only a couple of drops of grease on the plate, and nothing running down the sides of your hands where you held the burger to eat it.
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| End September 2nd, Begin September 4th - 12th |
These three photos were shot on September 4 while on a walk up the road from our home. The first two show portions of Gettinger's Field and the third shows a somewhat angry looking cloudbank.
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Now it's September 12 and Kazuya is shooting his flower arrangements, which he made with our garden flowers. While he is doing that, I am walking around shooting photos of the land, the house, the leaves, and so on.
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Here are two of the shots which Kazuya took of his flower arrangements made from our own garden flowers. The third shot shows a small bunch of Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum).
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Here are two more shots of Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum) and then a shot of our house taken from the south yard.
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Here is a shot of the woodshed, with enough wood for the next two winters. That is followed by a shot which shows both the house and the woodshed. The third shot was taken while looking up the driveway.
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Now it's late afternoon of the 12th of September. Let's take another walk up the road and check the autumn colors. The second and third shots show the seed head of a single Fireweed plant.
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The first shot is quite an extreme zoom which looks across the valley. Note the elevation level below which there has been a killing frost - the leaves have all fallen already and everything is just brown. Above that level there are pretty good colors. The second and third shots show Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum) (red leaves) and other plants.
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Here are the final two shots from our afternoon walk up the road on the 12th - autumn colors and the eastern part of the Alaska Range.
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| End September 12th, End Page 2 |
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