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Signs of spring
I noticed driving to work today that the trees on south-facing hillsides are breaking out in their first, faint flush of green. I want to say to them, "No, little trees! It's Fairbanks! It's only May 4th! It'll be snowing by the end of the week! Your poor wee buds will freeze!" But they won't listen. Trees. Can't tell 'em anything.
The weather has been truly awesome -- 75 degrees, gorgeous and sunny. Today is back down to 55 and feels like Fairbanks again; ah well. It was a lovely weekend. We walked the dogs up the abandoned mine road for the first time in month (the snow was too deep, and it's not maintained; it's just been the last few days that there's been enough snow gone that you can go anywhere).
With breakup happening so fast this year, the whole town is flooding ... well, bits and pieces of it, anyway. Driveways are eroding alongside the highway out in Fox -- the usual thing at this time of year, really; even on a good year, Goldstream Creek tends to overflow frozen culverts and run over the gravel driveways alongside the highway, but this year it's pretty bad. South of Ester, where the highway is (fortunately) banked quite high above the surrounding swamp, there is apparently a lake 30 feet deep where no lake is supposed to be, covering telephone poles and trees. (I'm halfway tempted to drive down that way just to see it...) So far we've been really lucky; things are actually better than usual for us, because the creek has melted out so quickly that it's not backing up and threatening the driveway as it usually does.
The weather has been truly awesome -- 75 degrees, gorgeous and sunny. Today is back down to 55 and feels like Fairbanks again; ah well. It was a lovely weekend. We walked the dogs up the abandoned mine road for the first time in month (the snow was too deep, and it's not maintained; it's just been the last few days that there's been enough snow gone that you can go anywhere).
With breakup happening so fast this year, the whole town is flooding ... well, bits and pieces of it, anyway. Driveways are eroding alongside the highway out in Fox -- the usual thing at this time of year, really; even on a good year, Goldstream Creek tends to overflow frozen culverts and run over the gravel driveways alongside the highway, but this year it's pretty bad. South of Ester, where the highway is (fortunately) banked quite high above the surrounding swamp, there is apparently a lake 30 feet deep where no lake is supposed to be, covering telephone poles and trees. (I'm halfway tempted to drive down that way just to see it...) So far we've been really lucky; things are actually better than usual for us, because the creek has melted out so quickly that it's not backing up and threatening the driveway as it usually does.