Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Marigolds we grew in my room planted in October.
Dog gets dirty quickly.
Snow melt pouring onto the frozen river.
The ice breakup is days away, hopefully after we leave. I don't want the torrent washing away the road to the airport.
Most of the snow has vanished leaving the piles of river life everywhere. Some of us teachers would like to rent a boat for a few months at the first of the year, but we are hoping for one larger than this one.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Some of our middle school girls ready for senior prom.
This was taken from the island in the river across from Emmonak. I finally walked there!
Big earthmoving equipment was being used to dig up road base for the new road to the airport. They were driving right across the river ice. That is why I decided it might be time for me to walk to the island, myself.
Hare is what I found on the island bushes just like we have in Emonak in places. There is Arctic hare somewhere in the picture. Can you find it? No wonder the kids shoot them all the time. If you double click on the picture it will enlarge so you can find the bunny easier.
Hare it is again.
I could stand in this hole and not reach the top. I thought the island, being in the middle of the river. would have filled with water.
The trees have been stripped here with just the roots left on to of the soil.
I waited across this to get to the island. Yes, it was semi-stupid, but exciting in a morbid way.
Here is some of the island dirt. The kids love playing on it. I can just see the kids running their 4-wheeled Hondas up and over.
... more dirt... more boats.
If you look back you can see how the boat owners had to dig their boats out of the snow in May. This May look! No digging! This boar is ready to go, right now. The snow machine ridders run their snow machines through this water like they do on you tube. If the machine flounders it will probably ruin the extremely hot engines.
This looks like the same boat that was dug out at the last of last winter.
This is a hole in the ice I found while walking along. I got down close and could hear the river running down there somewhere. I did the quick-step to solid ground after that and will not go back.
See the open water in the middle of the icy area. I wonder if the water is not coming from the river below, because we have not had run off for a few days.
I wonder if this machine floundered in the water yesterday.