Damn!

I have papers to grade. So, I guess summer is really over.

I was planning to take it easy this summer, but it didn’t exactly work out that way. A move across town took up a lot more time than Moni and I expected. Our trip to Valdez is still the  highlight of the season for me, but I also made it down to Montana on a work-related trip and down again to Fairbanks to help put on the Motif Film Festival. When I wasn’t traveling or taking boxes upstairs, I was busy working on class materials and whatnot. Suffice to say, it was an interesting summer.

One of the most interesting things about this particular summer is just how long the sea ice seemed to remain intact, and how long much of it stuck around shore. It seems like this last winter got started late (snow didn’t start sticking here in Barrow until well into October), so I suppose it’s fitting in some sense that the remnants of that winter would linger a bit. It certainly made for some beautiful views. Few sites compare to the midnight sun shining down on an entire ocean served on the rocks, so to speak.

Yeah, people do swim in this stuff, usually just for a minute or two, just long enough to say they did it.

Other people do this.

Not me.

(Click to embiggen.)

A little sea life in the fog there.

Clear and peaceful evening

Looks like I tweaked this pic a lot, but I really didn’t tweak it much

Hadda zoom a bit for this one

Just Cold!

Mid July

This little guy really wanted me off his beach

Lotta Blue

The cloud here steals the show.

Okay, this might not be sea ice

A touch of yellow

Icy Reflections

…and the world gets diagonal

An ice bow, some sea ice, and an annoying little blue dot.

Sorry, for the poor quality of this video, and in particular for my very shaky hand.

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