As weird as it seems to think about Alaska being shut down by rain, the last couple days of a freezing rain has done pretty much that from Anchorage to Fairbanks and places beyond, such as Barrow. It's still coming down, btw, tho' more real rain than icy rain, tho' all it'll take is one evening of sub-freezing temps for it to turn into a sheet of ice.... atop several layers of other sheets of ice. Wild weather. In any case, this is my driveway this morning after the melt had begun. What looks like a normal puddle of ice right is melt atop a frozen puddle, btw.
Closer view of the ice puddle. The black of the driveway is also covered by a sheer layer of ice, so sorta like black ice. It's the sort that you can't see, so it's particularly dangerous. Not in my driveway, true, well, unless I'm walking and don't know it's there to be careful, but for driving.
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I seem to be living in a Christmas card again right now. This view is looking north from just below the end of my driveway.
The view down Lone Cub.
A bit closer look. I was using the Olympus camera and it's slower to recycle than the Canon, but worked to my advantage here with this nice close up.
Loved the church spire against the sky with the mountains as a backdrop. It's across from Colony High School.
Gee, can you guess where this one was taken?
Rosemary told me once that I needed to remember to take pix of the "real world" here in Alaska occasionally, too, so here's "Real World, Palmer, Trash Day". Taken from the Fred's gas station over there. Gave me a chuckle.
On the way home, having just turned off Palmer-Wasilla Hwy. onto Seward Meridian. Looking north at the Talkeetna Mts.
Just pretty snow pix taken out along Bogart.
