My Little Part of Alaska...Is Spring Here....Maybe...*S*

Well here it is almost April, and the taste of spring is just teasing us here. yes. Teasing us. We've been having temps at around 30+ lately, but it turned around and dumped 4 inches of snow on us out of the blue. We got ratehr used to having sunny skies and clear views across the valley below us, and then we get remided by mother nature she is still not ready to warm up our cockles just yet...


I am anxious to see the birch trees bloom. When the birch sart getting green the trees across all the mountains suddenly like over a space of 3 or 4 days just burst out vibrant green. I have never seen trees turn so quickly in all my life, andit is a sight to experience. Hopefully I will get pictures of it this year instead of being too busy going and coming from work each day. This will be the first spring in many years that I have not been working. So there really isn't any excuse not to enjoy its beauty.

I am ready and eager to get outside and wander about our little 10 acres to explore the surroundings and wildlife. I can't wait to see moose feed on the green birch leaves and branches and snap some pictures of their feeding. We had a few wander close to the house this year, and I am ever so happy to finally have the place into which we can experience it. I amhoping to catch sight of the grizz and fox too. But waiting in anticipation for the biggest treasure of all. The wolves. I don't know if we will see them, but I kno we will hear them. Just listening to their howls gives me goose pimples....*S*. They speak to my soul.

Alpine Lights outside  my backdoor

Miss moose right outside my addition window

She is looking for birsh to eat outside my sddition window

Well here ae a few pictures. I am sad that I don't have the video or specialized camera to capture the Northern Lights. But ther are few of the Alpine Lights that were taken right from my back door. They are beautiful in their colors. I've sent never seent he sky these colors in the morning anywhere. So enjoy my little treasures. I hope to be posting more in the future......





Just heading around the side of my house

The Invitation: by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and
bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.


I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like
the company you keep in the empty moments.