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Layla ([personal profile] layla) wrote2005-09-10 08:36 pm

Autumn pictures

At this time of year, Fairbanks truly lives up to its official nickname, the "Golden Heart City".


Birches on the bluff above the creek.


More birches beside the gravel pit.


With the early-evening sun behind them, these trees seem to glow with their own light.


The hill across the valley and the stream where the dogs like to chase ducks. This picture was taken from the lower part of the driveway.


Looking down from the yard at the footbridge across our creek.

One thing I never noticed until living somewhere else for a few years is how golden Alaska is. Obviously, at this time of year EVERYTHING is gold, but even in midsummer, it seemed that many of my photos had a golden hue to them. Husband points out that this is at least partly because the vegetation "down south" is much more verdant; everything up here is on the very verge of dying all the time. Spoilsport. ;) At least partly, though, it seems to be a quality of the very low angle of the light at high latitudes -- a perpetual sunrise effect.

[identity profile] neosquirrel.livejournal.com 2005-09-11 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Can I just come up there and live with you guys? Brooklyn, hell, NYC is sucking the nature in my blood out of me!
I'll sleep out in the tool shed... ^^

[identity profile] laylalawlor.livejournal.com 2005-09-11 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well, here you can see the lovely selection of outbuildings that you'd get to choose from. We refer to the two on the left as the POW sheds due to their resemblance to something that might be banned by the Geneva convention. (They're made from sections of prefab housing units. The little hatlike pieces on the middle one are actually covering the foot-wide gaps between the sections that form what may be loosely termed its "roof".)

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[identity profile] neosquirrel.livejournal.com 2005-09-12 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmm... Eeenie meenie miney... Right.

It looks like an evolutionary scale of sheds! ^^

[identity profile] laylalawlor.livejournal.com 2005-09-12 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
That one's the boiler shed. Hey! We can use you for a boiler-stoker! It uses coal. You'll have to put in a couple of bucketfulls every 12 hours or so. Hope you don't mind. ~_^

[identity profile] neosquirrel.livejournal.com 2005-09-12 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, a fella does have to earn his keep, after all.
Hmm... loose hanging overalls, sweaty physique, coal smears across my chiseled face (courtesy of my sweating calories off)...

Yes, that could work....