Alaska Sketches 🫎🏞️

We kept it simple this year but still made it festive for Halloween 🎃—great team-building and lots of laughter! #HalloweenFun #TeamBuilding #OfficeVibes #FestiveMood

I finally found a new friend — a Norfolk Island Pine for our home! Picked it up from a lovely neighborhood plant shop filled with lemon and lime trees at Anchorage & Eagle River’s premiere greenhouse. I almost forgot — this is Alaska! 🍋🌲 #NorfolkIslandPine #IndoorPlants #AlaskaLife #EagleRiver

No Kings gathering in Girdwood Alaska #StandUpToTrump

Training for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) has begun.
Alaska has one of the highest rates of child abuse in the U.S., and the role of advocating for the legal rights and best interests of abused or neglected children is deeply important.
#CASA #Alaska #ChildAdvocacy #Volunteer

Did you see the termination dust on the mountains this morning? ❄️
It’s an Alaskan phrase for the first snow that signals the end of summer — like “the first frost of fall.”
#EagleRiver #Alaska #TerminationDust

Excited to see it, my friend Georgie from Fort Yukon has been showing off pictures of the beautiful skin-sewing she did for the costumes!

Lingít songs at pick up today ♥️

I love that the kids are singing in their jackets and backpacks. Culture is celebrated everyday.

Happy Indigenous people’s day! #indigenouspeoplesday

A surprise visitor in our neighborhood today 🫎
He’s a “juvenile buck,” maybe around 2 years old — calm yet so powerful.
Learning new things about Alaska wildlife every day!
#AlaskaMoments #EagleRiver #MooseSighting

Morning primitive walk in Chugach State Park, with a trail leading into the Greenbelt. The glacier-fed water shines bright blue. 💙 #ChugachStatePark #EagleRiver #AlaskaLife #MorningWalk #NatureLovers #GlacierWater #TrailLife #ExploreAlaska #BlueWater

Yes! It was such an amazing phenomenon—I recorded it on my cellphone. Hope you enjoy it!💚🌌

YouTube video by PBS Terra There’s Something Weird Going On With the Northern Lights

A faint crackle—no wind, no rain, not the trees. Locals nodded, “yep, that’s the aurora.”
Still debated by science, but I believe it now.
🎥 youtu.be/tnATQJJIsK4

YouTube video by PBS Terra There’s Something Weird Going On With the Northern Lights

A faint crackle—no wind, no rain, not the trees. Locals nodded, “yep, that’s the aurora.”
Still debated by science, but I believe it now.
🎥 youtu.be/tnATQJJIsK4

Aurora in Alaska tonight 🌌💚
Not only breathtakingly beautiful to watch, but I even heard the mysterious crackling sound of the northern lights. ✨
It felt like the sky was alive!

#Aurora #Alaska #NorthernLights #オーロラ

Detectives report: Skeletal remains uncovered in a suburban Halloween yard… 🎃💀🕵️‍♂️ Trick or Treat or True Crime? #SpookyCrimeScene #HalloweenDecor #CSIStyle

Driving home,
I caught a glimpse of Alaska’s brief yet beautiful autumn sky.
The mountains glowed golden in the sunset—
it felt like something straight out of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ✨🍂

#Alaska #AutumnSky #Sunset #Nausicaa

A furniture store with taxidermy, a giant chair, and even a mysterious fishing 🎣 corner—this Alaska sale had it all! #Alaska #FurnitureSale #GiantChair #Taxidermy #FishingDecor

Early morning walk in the fog and came across a moose family right in our neighborhood🫎
Alaska really does feel like the Twilight Zone sometimes.
#AlaskaLife #MorningFog #MooseMomAndCalves #WildlifeInTown #OnlyInAlaska #TwilightZoneVibes

So glad my pics brought back good memories 💖 I’m new in Alaska 🌲❄️ and haven’t tried salmon candy from Homer yet—but now I really want to! 🐟✨

Even though summer has ended, tasting this homemade Alaska smoked salmon brought back the rich, delicious feeling of an Alaskan summer 🌲🐟☀️ Thank you Jessica! 💕 #AlaskaLife #SmokedSalmon #AlaskaSummer

Close-up of a bull moose partially framed by a spruce branch in the foreground. The moose’s large, wide antlers stretch outward, one catching the light so it glows pale against the background. Its dark eye looks forward, and the thick muzzle fills the lower half of the frame. Behind the moose, autumn foliage glows in warm shades of yellow and orange, creating contrast with the moose’s brown fur.

We just got back from another couple of days in Denali National Park. Moose were everywhere. We saw so many bulls that I actually lost count! Now I’ve got a few hundred more photos to sort through this week.

#alaska #wildlife #denali #moose

Thrilled to add this stunning handcrafted casserole dish by Peter M. Brondz (Brondz Studio, Alaska) to my kitchen. Functional art that brings warmth to everyday life.✨ #BrondzStudio #AlaskaPottery #HandmadeCeramics #LocalArt

Beluga Point, a rocky outpost on Turnagain Arm, just south of Anchorage along the Seward Highway 🍂🌊
Autumn is arriving—windy skies, shifting light, and even a rainbow bridging the water remind us that beauty shines through the gray 🌈✨
#Alaska #TurnagainArm #BelugaPoint #Alaskasky #NatureInspires

My sister 🇯🇵 hosted a beautiful Sanju (傘寿, 80th birthday) celebration for our mother. Seeing her enjoy the delicious dishes and looking so healthy fills me with joy. I wish I could have joined the celebration ☺️🍶🎉 Wishing her many more years of happiness and good health.
#Sanju #傘寿 #FamilyCelebration

Shimmering auroras over my driveway in North Pole, Alaska.
September 2024

Amount of darkness gained during the month of September in Alaska. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Alaska once had 3+ time zones 🕰️ Unified in 1983, now only 2: Alaska (UTC-9) & Hawaii–Aleutian (UTC-10). The state spans 4,800 km — as wide as the Lower 48! 🌍✨
#Alaska #TimeZone #History

Glad my neighbor caught it—just three pixels, but I’m grateful! 🐻

Got this photo from a neighbor (sorry for the low quality), but a massive brown bear showed up at our local park in Eagle River Nature Center 🐻 It’s #salmonrunseason, so please be extra careful when hiking!🥾
#Alaska #AlaskaLife #BrownBear #WildlifeEncounter #HikingSafety

Feeling the end of summer in Alaska 🌿 There are no cherry blossoms here, but the sweet fragrance of #Sitkaroses drifts through the air, reminding us of early summer 🌸 Their gentle scent, along with lilacs, lupines, and fireweed, colors the short season and whispers the change of time.
#AlaskaLife

I attended church on Sunday. In various communities, people gather, and prayer functions as a common practice. Regardless of differences in religion or culture, prayer is observed worldwide as one of the universal human activities.✨
#Prayer #UniversalPractice #BeyondCulture #Communities #Church