Today was one of those perfect days that only occur in Alaska. Incredible bright sun and brilliant white snow that takes your breath away. There is nothing in the world that beats a sunny day in Alaska. I've lived here my almost my whole life (my Mom and I moved up when I was six) and there is nowhere I'd rather live. Days like today are just magical.
This time of year, Peter, my boyfriend, and to be honest just about everyone else, really begins to pine for flowers, grass, robins, etc. Peter sinks into an envious depression during the Master's. But as far as I'm concerned, the weather could stay this way for just about forever. However, I will say that once breakup really gets underway, I'm pretty impatient for it to just be over Breakup is ugly - nothing like giant puddles and the odiferous resurfacing of entire winter's worth of dog doo.
What's killing me is that I am still recovering from surgery and cannot go skiing - it just absolutely breaks my heart. I have one more to week to go and then I should be able to do some very easy backcountry skiing. And by backcountry - I mean safe skiing in the valleys in non-avalanche zones. Three people and four dogs have died in avalanches in the past two weeks. I just hope the weather holds for another week - I can ski on Wednesday of next week. But I have this fear that it will cloud over and start raining on Tuesday.
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