Top one is a 2005 fire along the Sheenjek River near Fort Yukon, Alaska. Second one is a 2007 tundra fire along the Anaktuvuk River.
Well, fire season is upon us Alaskans again... with something like 400+ fires currently burning, I have to say we beat out Cali and other fire states acre for acre every year. Their fires just threaten populated areas more than ours do.
Fairbanks is smoky these days, since the wind changed, blowing the smoke up from fire about 40 miles south of us. Today, the smoke isn't so visible on ground level, though the sun is red from all of it in the atmosphere. The smell is about midrange today, but the true annoyance? Falling ash. This cannot be good for one's health!
To work in a few hours, but before that I'm off to the dog park.
Have two chapters of Adapting left before I'm calling that fic complete! Will probably post chapter 29 on Wednesday.
Think that's it for now!
Sounds toxic.
ReplyDeleteI had a dream last night that I was traveling up north. I don't know where I was, but I saw plenty of beautiful snow capped mountains. Maybe it was a preminition about you submitting a new post. Please forgive my ignorance, but does Alaska have a lot of mountains?
We do indeed! Denali is the largest mountain in North America and we have it, along with many many others. :-D Fairbanks is in a valley and we're pretty much surrounded by mountains, though you can only see the ones to the south from the Fairbanks area.
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