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I am so tired
I drove for about 9 hours today, and realized afterwards when I was sending pictures to a friend that I had gone from 60 to 63 degrees of latitude and driven through about a month of seasonal progression.
I woke up this morning in Seward, and this was my view out the front windows as I had my morning tea.
I saw a mountain goat on the mountain (with binoculars).
The weather in Seward, and for the next couple of hours of driving, was absolutely gorgeous, crystal still and sunny. This lake in the mountains outside Seward was just so flat and mirror-beautiful.
(The thing I didn't manage to photograph - because I was driving through road construction - but never want to forget was all these patches of heavy fog/mist/clouds in the mountains hanging low over lakes, where all you could see was bits of trees or fallen logs or patches of reeds indicating the surface of the lake, fading into a white wall of mist. It was just so eerie, the lake surface becoming the sky.)
So in between these photos there was Alaska's main urban corridor, and visiting with my mom, and then I started taking pictures again when I drove into fall on the approach to the Denali pass north of Talkeetna, where the trees were gold.
And then I hit Broad Pass, the tundra plateau that the highway goes through before it descends on the Fairbanks side.
No color edits; this is the true color. There are mountains in the background, hidden in mist. It was raining.
Eventually the mountains began to emerge.
I'll take pictures tomorrow of the place I'm staying! It's a very quiet and pleasant little cabin adjacent to an airstrip. There's a spruce forest around with bright orange/red ground cover, very pretty.
But just to review, this morning I drove through this:
And now it's this:
The changes in just one day amaze me.
I woke up this morning in Seward, and this was my view out the front windows as I had my morning tea.
I saw a mountain goat on the mountain (with binoculars).
The weather in Seward, and for the next couple of hours of driving, was absolutely gorgeous, crystal still and sunny. This lake in the mountains outside Seward was just so flat and mirror-beautiful.
(The thing I didn't manage to photograph - because I was driving through road construction - but never want to forget was all these patches of heavy fog/mist/clouds in the mountains hanging low over lakes, where all you could see was bits of trees or fallen logs or patches of reeds indicating the surface of the lake, fading into a white wall of mist. It was just so eerie, the lake surface becoming the sky.)
So in between these photos there was Alaska's main urban corridor, and visiting with my mom, and then I started taking pictures again when I drove into fall on the approach to the Denali pass north of Talkeetna, where the trees were gold.
And then I hit Broad Pass, the tundra plateau that the highway goes through before it descends on the Fairbanks side.
No color edits; this is the true color. There are mountains in the background, hidden in mist. It was raining.
Eventually the mountains began to emerge.
I'll take pictures tomorrow of the place I'm staying! It's a very quiet and pleasant little cabin adjacent to an airstrip. There's a spruce forest around with bright orange/red ground cover, very pretty.
But just to review, this morning I drove through this:
And now it's this:
The changes in just one day amaze me.
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That degree of difference really is extraordinary, thank you for sharing the beautiful photos!
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Amazing sceneries <333
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Last summer we went to Alaska (in June, for a wedding) and spent the night in Palmer because we didn't want to drive from Healy to Seward in one day, that sounded like too much driving, so I'm very impressed that you went Seward to Fairbanks in one day.
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I can understand why you're exhausted, though!
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