Wednesday

 

We asked about recycling.  We’re told it has just begun in Anchorage.  We can expect it to hit Fairbanks in a couple years.  Did we cross a time warp?

 

We have here an unfamiliar tree.  It’s a key species for the boreal forest; the black spruce.  It’s distinctive and not like anything we see in Colorado.  Normal spruces are pyramidal; shaped like Christmas trees.  The black spruce, by contrast, is very tall and thin.

 

 

From a distance, stands of black spruce do look considerably darker than other evergreen forests.

 

We bought a lot of warm clothes in Colorado to bring to the Yukon and Alaska.  It’s been T-shirt weather since we got here.  I’m getting weather alerts on my phone; excessive heat; highs in the mid-seventies to mid-eighties.  No rain in sight!