Sato, your flowers have a touch of delicate about them, beautiful and skillful photography!

We have two types of wild iris here, but as they are in the bush, they aren't as beautiful.

Love seeing your beautiful flower photos, Sato

Lovely! Almost as if seen under a black light.

Sato...
...well-done to who tends your flowers...from what I see they have been well looked after and well-tended...The only sad thing with flowers, they have such a short life...thankfully they literally " spring "  back to life the very next year, with luck...

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Pat, beautiful photos of your area.  I always think of snow and ice.

Nice photos, Angel.  Fairbanks is a very pretty City

Those clouds are ominous looking.

Patricia - A nice group of photos.  I enjoyed looking at them.

Great photos of your nice skies and pristine town.  I love the clock tower, is it in the middle of a square?
What is the name of that river?  It would make  a useful background for some PSP...
I'm going to use the fountain one for a jigsaw!

Always nice to see your Alaskan pictures, Patricia !!  Beautiful area !

Like Jack said,  Alaska always make me think of cold and snow.  Glad you shared these!

Joy

Thanks everyone for the nice comments.

Actually, we have far less snow than most places because we are a dry climate and it takes moisture and humidity to snow. This year was an anomaly with all the snow after some years with little to none. Minnesota, Michigan and other states bordering the Great Lakes are usually far colder than we in the Arctic are.

April and May on one hand and August on the other, are almost always very rainy. While the heavy rains did cover some bike paths and low lying areas, the waters are already back in their banks with the warmer weather forecast. When you place a town amidst five rivers, that can happen.

The carillon slash clock tower and the first family statue and fountain, (Designed by the same person who designed the Vietnam wall memorial in Washington.);  are located in Golden Heart Park, one of a series of river parks and less than two blocks from my building.

The river in these photos is the Chena which runs through and loops back around the city. All photos were taken at the park, the landing downriver is Grahel and the river in this area has two pedestrian bridges and three motorway bridges in a short distance.

Patricia, always nice to see your pictures of Alaska, and such interesting skys. Until I met you, i had a different picture of your part of the world

  Hope this link works....The most beautiful places in Alaska...I particularly liked Ketchikan..I wonder though, does it ever flood?

https://www.roughguides.com/gallery/the-most-beautiful-places-in-alaska/

Patricia, lovely pictures.  I loved the sky picture and it should be compared with a storm picture of Kansas that Shirley in Soda Shoppe posted a few years ago.  We just don't have those types of skies.  I know in my short trip around Fairbanks that we missed a lot.  In fact, in the video Jackie posted,  I think I had seen only one area - a mountain range, and that from a distance.  I loved Alaska and wish I could go again, but it is not in the cards.  I'm lucky I got to Indianapolis!

Sato - pretty flower.

Mary Ann

Jackie, enjoyed that link of Alaska photos.  From photos that Angel has shared and these photos, Alaska appears so differently than what I’ve imagined.  Most fiction books I’ve read always show Alaska as dark and cold with lots of snow.

Sato, what a pretty delicate flower with morning dew on its petals.

Sato, another lovely photo! It may be your hobby, but your shots are very professional!

Jackie, Ketchican has the dubious distinction of having the most recorded rainfall in North America, but I don't know about flooding! The only issue that I have with your link is that it only showed around the coastal areas of Alaska and ignored the West coast and the Interior other than Denali Park. Alaska is beautiful, rugged and some parts are still to be explored. Each time a lawmaker proposes a state road system, it is voted down which helps to keep that unspoiled look.

Jackie, I have a friend who lives on a smallholding in England. She talks very casually about stopping to eat her noon meal perched upon Hadrian's wall which runs through a pasture or at least the ruins do. That to me, thousands of miles of recorded history is amazing!

I suppose it is just habit to have a curiosity about unknown areas. I know that for me, visiting the lower forty-eight is similar to visiting another country. When I am in Canada, British Columbia, I feel it is the same other than the money because of the similarities in land, animals, and people. That can be odd when you think about it. We are right next to Canada and in one area only three miles from Siberia, yet the closet we come to the US is 1,434.58 miles.

Angel, any photos of vehicle for the "show me a photo"... discussion?

https://www.seniorsandfriends.org/photos-and-more/show-me-a-photo-of/msg130158/#msg130158

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Bubble, I'll have to look.
Playing a game with no artificial lights and it starts at midnight.

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