Nobody Ever Suspects the Quiet Ones, watercolor and ink
Although it may (tentatively) be spring here in Fairbanks, and the sun no longer sets, I still maintain a perspective with a healthy dose of morbidity.
Today at the watershed, snow melt was happening in earnest. The overflow ice that freezes at night around the tree trunks was left high and dry in the daytime as the water level dropped, leaving behind "ice skirts" that shattered or tilted at crazy angles as the day warmed up.
Polygon tunnel
Ice skirts, which fell off the trees with loud crashing and much splashing! And disorienting to walk through
Alligator-belly-ice
SNOWFLAKES!!
The water was pretty high out at the field site (CPCRW). Maybe the truck could have made it across, but it's hard to know how things behave on ice (there was still a lot of ice below the water!)
I felt bad walking around on these delicate crystals. Talk about an elephant in a china closet. I've lived that now!
This is from the set of bear tracks going down one of our ATV trails. Looks like s/he had been walking through the afternoon before... luckily for us
Frozen bubbles at the edge of the flooded path. You could pick up the frozen bubbles, but they wouldn't do to ship anything to your friends living far away.
Look at that rich gold water! Just thinking about all the organic matter giving it that hue makes me excited for field season! It was a little sketchy to try to cross this flooded section of trail though.
Everybody Paints Poppies, watercolor and ink
These also remind me of nasturtiums. Mmmm edible flowers...
Haribou, caribou antler and snowshoe hare
I'm starting to dabble in sculpture.
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