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Pictures of Southeast Alaska

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  • #21
drool....

very nice indeed
Av

love the scenery. I have been to Alaska before on a cruise

AH-mazing pictures. WOW!

Thank you for the kind words everyone! :)

WOW :0o:

I'm just... in awe at the sheer beauty of it all. And the delicious berries look great too!

Thank you so much for sharing!!

Thank you! The delicious berries are sooo great. I can't wait for this Summer!

Beautiful, right now the only green things here are the evergreens. How many miles north of me are you again?

Don't worry the only things green here are the evergreens as well. Most of these pictures were taken last year or even earlier. I did a quick look and it's hard to say how far north I am, possibly a thousand miles?

Great pics of a great place, thanks for sharing. 'Round here, to find alpine meadows and sphag bogs and tundra I need to get to 9500 ft +. Strange to me to see such scenes at such low altitudes.

I'm amazed that there are sphagnum bogs in your area!

Once again, I love your land scape photos! Really beautiful shots!

That's really sad about the construction going on... D:

I like the CP pics too. :-D

Thank you thank you!

What construction?

wow, it reminds me a bit of nature around here, lots of the same kind of species but 10-100 times better :D

That's because the photographer is 10-100 times cooler. :jester: JK!

Thank you everyone for commenting and as I said, I will update with fresh pics from a new camera as the season awakens the bogs and rainforest.
 
  • #22
For some of those of us who live here, the pungent smell becomes like perfume of the season, and the sight of this bloom brings reassurance and joy to the thought of the land awakening from a cold and soggy darkness.

Skunk Cabbage

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Though still a long way off, and out of the focus, Red Huckleberry is gorgeous.

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And Red Elderberry is easily winning the race towards photosynthesis.

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Excepting those that never went to sleep.

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  • #23
Recently went on a short hike out and about for an archaeological trip. Our flight was canceled, and therefor our entire trip was canceled due to bad weather (which is really saying something around here). So instead we decided to poke around on the road system and see what we could find. I spent more time taking pictures of the spring awakening of plants, here's just a modest few photos:

An out of focus fruticose lichen.

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The remains of a dilapidated dam built in World War Two era, which supplied electricity for a long since gone internment camp where hundreds of Aleuts were held virtually prisoner (that's a whole nother long story).

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Alligator liverwort and ferns awakening (out of focus! arrg)

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Some interesting lichen. Also out of focus! Darn you cold weather!

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A nice patch of the evergreen deer fern.

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A rather impressive example of some brown foliose lichen.

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A nice patch of forest and a bed of Skunk cabbage, not far from the ex-internment camp.

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Still out of focus! Drat, I really do hate my camera sometimes. A Red huckleberry blossom.

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A great example of a jelly fungus.

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Fiddle-head ferns emerging for the season. This is the best time to harvest them to eat.

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The ubiquitous and treacherous Devil's Club, with growth tip emerging.

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Dilapidated pumphouse from the 60's, complete with roof-top forest.

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An in-focus example of the Alligator liverwort in a bed of leafy liverwort. I really love this stuff!

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A whispy fruticose lichen.

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And last but not least a really interesting dark variety of cup fungus that I am not sure I have seen before.

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  • #24
Wow! It must be so unpolluted where you live for all of that lichen to grow! Hmmm, so cool! I was wondering why it was so mossy, so I googled 'The First City', and found that you get 137" of rain a year. No wonder all it's so mossy XD
 
  • #25
Yeah! Actually we just went to a place today and I stupidly forgot my camera in an early morning daze, but there were TONS of lichen out there. It seemed like even more than there were to be found at the location where these previous pictures were taken. Perhaps even just being that much closer to town makes a big difference.
 
  • #27
Yeah, they're really susceptible to pollution - especially the bushy lichens! They're a really good indicator of air pollution, if they grow, the air's reaaalllyyy clean. Haha, the things you learn in biology :') Shame you didn't bring your camera!
 
  • #28
Great pictures. My mom wants to take a cruise in Alaska one day. Maybe if i go we can meet up and you can give us a tour. :)

(a tour of your part of Alaska and your collection)
 
  • #29
Same old muskeg, new pics. Late spring, it starts to awaken.

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Some bog plants are spreading their leaves.

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And their buds.

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Or their winter hibernaculum.

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Or maybe just putting on that last bit of ripeness to last season's cranberries.

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Or simply standing as they have for many decades.

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Others are perhaps wondering what in the world they are doing up so early. Ambystoma macrodactylum

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A perfect bed of sphagnum that I thought you all might appreciate.

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The delightful skunk cabbage, smelling great and looking even better.

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A bit of fish that some bear drug up this far.

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A marsh marigold blooming

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Taken down by the fungus.

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A bit of clubmoss.

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A bed of ferns awakening.

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Up close.

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And one of my favorite types of clubmoss. (I forget the name at the moment.)

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  • #30

This made me gasp. It's absolutely breathtaking! I feel like I could weave a story from this picture alone. Would you happen to have a wallpaper-sized version you'd be willing to share? :-O
 
  • #31
Ohhhhhh wowwwww, such beauty!!!
Great shots, Dex!!! :love:
 
  • #32
This made me gasp. It's absolutely breathtaking! I feel like I could weave a story from this picture alone. Would you happen to have a wallpaper-sized version you'd be willing to share? :-O

Man, thanks so much for the compliment! That's the view right off my porch. :D

I don't have a wallpaper-sized version off hand, but you are more than welcome to steal that pic and do a size increase in MS paint with it if you like. That is what I would do to make it wallpaper-sized, but I'm not a computer whiz. :)

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Ohhhhhh wowwwww, such beauty!!!
Great shots, Dex!!! :love:

And of course, thank you kindly Liz. :banana2:
 
  • #33
Spring is in full swing. My yard is growing. Yay! :banana2:

Red elderberry off my porch is blooming heavily, the air is thick with pollen.

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Close up of the interesting flowers.

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I believe this is a sword fern but I could be wrong. Anyway it's pretty interesting too.

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A small section of our Salmonberry patch.

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Last Summer I transplanted this small Saskatoon tree in my backyard. I was really doubtful as to whether it would survive to the next season. But it appears to be doing quite well!

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Hopefully these blooms will yield its delicious grape-sized fruit, which taste pretty much exactly like a fig.

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The peculiar Stink currant, blooming and ripening.

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It's gonna be a bumper crop!

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And last but certainly not least, Pinguicula vulgaris, which I captured and am now growing on my porch.

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The glandular flower stalk.

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  • #34
Ooooooh, I love the nature you live in! Very nice!!!

Cute ping, too!
 
  • #35
Opened:

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  • #36
More pics as the season progresses.

False-lily-of-the-valley flowers

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A humble invasive.

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Salal blooms

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Large Skunk Cabbage.

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Yes, large.

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All this just in the ditch of my driveway!

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Insects on Cow Parsnip

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A bed of Dwarf Dogwood.

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Up close.

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A sea of humble buttercups.

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A very thick and tall ditch.

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This person's front yard is just terrific.

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Quite a beautiful ditch this is.

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Full of the Alaska state flower: The Forget-Me-Not.

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A roadside meadow of pretty invasives.

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And the delicious thimbleberry, who's fruit I await greedily!

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  • #37
Wow, your shots are absolutely amazing!
 
  • #38
Everything is so beautiful!!!

Bumblebee!!! :laaa:
 
  • #39
omg. love!
 
  • #40
Thank you all! I'm glad I could share it with you folks. :)
 
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