Shimmering Clouds in 60 knot winds and 40 foot seas
Are Making me feel I’m home. *
October and November are stormy months in Southeast Alaska. Statistically October has 29 days of rain. As I am writing this, the trees are whipping around in the wind. There is heavy rain caused by an “atmospheric river” and a landslide has taken out a power substation in Ketchikan. So, when we have those two days without rain I take advantage of them. Well, it is not just those two days. Sometimes it clears up in time for sunset and sometimes there are huge “sucker holes” that allow me to get out, although sometimes I am suckered. We’ll get to that in a later post.
Southeast Alaska does not have the colorful fall hardwood forests of New England or the Appalachians. But we do have softwood alder, imported ornamental trees and looking up to the mountains we see color in the Alpine Tundra. Looking down while walking through the muskeg we also see color in the ground plants and grass.
This is the first of a series of Sitka Autumn photo galleries. This first one is a collection of pictures from around Sitka. These pictures are from the Mosquito Cove Trail, The Totem Trail, the Pioneer Home garden, the Starrigavan Estuary Loop Trail (where we meet one of the last Salmon to swim upstream), the SeaMart parking lot, the sports field parking lot, and my front yard. Future posts will take us up Harbor Mountain to the Alpine Tundra and into the Muskeg between the Cross Trail and Indian River.
*Thanks to Leandra Baker and her parody of Autumn in New York.
You have some pretty color there. I’ve never seen fall foliage outside of New England, so seeing pictures from Alaska is a treat.