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visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginThis is my backyard. My upyard? This is overlooking my home and the hot springs/resort where me and my dogs work. These pics were taken from horseback last August when my sister came to visit. The long, tan thing you see in the second picture is the landing strip, not a road.visitors can't see pics , please register or loginThe Tanana Valley, as seen from right outside of Fairbanks, AK.I am ridiculously spoiled by Mother Nature.
So pretty! Are they cedar trees?Looks like lovely place for a days hacking
I don't like it where I live (cuz there's simple nothing) but it looked nice when we had that horrible winter two or three years ago.So I took some pics =)There are some fields starting straight behind our street & stream.In the summertime there are always ponies and horses on the fields.visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or login
Quote from: Artemesia Floc[/quoteSo pretty! Are they cedar trees?Looks like lovely place for a days hacking It is a very lovely place for a day hike! I'd recommend it to anypony that wanted to come up and visit. I'll even volunteer to be your tour guide! There may be cedars along the southwest coast of Alaska, but none in the interior- this is boreal forest country. It is technically a subarctic desert due to our low rainfall, and we have a layer of permafrost about 2 feet beneath the ground that prevents taproots from forcing their way through. (As a side note, because of the permafrost, rainfall and snowmelt have nowhere to go, so it all just sits on top until we also turn into wetlands- cala lilies grow so dense in the wild, people have asked me if we planted them there). Our few tree species have to be very tough, so we do not have many of them. Six in total, I believe- white spruce, black spruce, tamarack, Alaskan paper birch, quaking aspen, and cottonwood. Lots of willow shrubs, too, but not trees. And the further north you travel, of course, the fewer you'll see until it's just the tiny, twisted little black spruces and then... nothing but tundra. Sometimes heavy snowfall will topple our hardwoods- their root systems just rip and rise out of the ground as the tree falls over- it's pretty amazing! Our little sickly-looking black shrubs are also BAMF and can withstand pretty much everything. Their seeds are opened by fire, which is one of the many reasons we don't stop forest fires any more- our world depends on fire to replenish *everything*- and to stay cozy when it's chilly!Sorry to babble! I find everything about this place is just so amazing, I get over-enthusiastic about it. Thanks for giving me an outlet, Artie! What a great topic! I'm loving everybody's pictures here. Our world is so vast and unique everywhere we see. I can't get enough of it! Gorgeous cemetaries, Narnia-trees in winter, Studio Ghibli rose gardens, crazy pretty architecture.... What a fantastic world we have here. Keep the pictures coming!