Alaskan Sunset

Alaska has some amazing sunsets! This is definitely not the most spectacular but beautiful none the less. Maybe one day I will be able to capture the sunset with the inlet and the mountains also. For now, I will share the ones my daughter took from home last week. Enjoy!  God’s creation is awe inspiring!

Snowing Cotton

Over the past couple of weeks it has been snowing cotton!  The cottonwood trees are releasing an unbelievable amount of seed into the air!  It is pretty to look at but talk about allergies!  I thought I would share a bit of our cotton snow storm with you.  In the first photo you can actually see some of the cotton falling.  Oh, and another point of interest, I took these photos at 11:30 pm on an overcast day.  Just to give you an idea of the daylight.

Big Wildlife Day

This Memorial Day will be a memorable one but not for the regular reason.  This was a BIG wildlife day at our house.  Even though our house is nestled up against the mountains we usually do not see much wildlife in our yard.  It is probably because we have dogs and the children tend to make noise too.   BUT, today was a big change.  This morning in the trees right across the street sat a very large bald eagle.  Of course, it flew away before I got outside with the camera.  Maybe that had to do with children running in yelling, “MOM,  A BALD EAGLE!”

I did manage to get a couple of photos of our afternoon visitors though.  A mama moose and her two little babies running right past our backyard.

My Spring Garden

I thought I would share part of my spring garden with you. We spent some time yesterday planting. Our house is beginning to brighten up for the summer! They are not the best photos but the flowers are beautiful!

My birch bark planter.

Some ferns in front of the house.

Another birch bark planter, I LOVE these planters!

My Mother’s Day gift.

Just something pretty I picked up at the greenhouse yesterday.

Beauty in Afghanistan

My hubby shared a photo he took in Afghanistan.  So I decided to share with you as well.  Enjoy.

My Alaskan Spring

Since all of my facebook friends have been so kind to share their photos of spring with green grass, blooming flowers, trees with leaves, and t-shirts and shorts, I thought I would share a bit of my spring so far!  These were taken 10 minutes ago!  April 14, 2010!  Enjoy……your nice spring weather! )

This is from the back yard.  You cannot even see the big mountains right on the other side of the house.

The trampoline still awaiting a time to be used.

A look down the street and the stream.

My front yard.

The deck.

There are signs of spring though…these are the daffodils beginning to grow in the flower bed at the front of the house.