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Alaska Sketches 🫎🏞️
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Sketching small wonders of everyday life ✏️ Nature, quiet skies, and kind souls 🏞️🫎✨ #Alaskasky
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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
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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!
If there was ever a time that we need Indigenous stories told in our own language & imbued with our values - that time is NOW. It is with great honor & humility that we will premiere our short #TwoOldWomen film at #HIFF45 w/ our Kanaka relatives. 🙏🏽 Mahsi’choo to author #VelmaWallis for her support!
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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!💚🌌
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
There’s Something Weird Going On With the Northern Lights
YouTube video by PBS Terra
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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
There’s Something Weird Going On With the Northern Lights
YouTube video by PBS Terra
youtu.be
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
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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
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Shimmering auroras over my driveway in North Pole, Alaska.
September 2024
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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