Blog Post October 2025 Transitions It is a season of moments felt as lifetimes, of a rush into diminished daylight, accompanied by the hesitance of a nature reluctant to let go of summer. Even now the grass remains largely a defiant green, and tree leaves cling to limbs not yet bared by recurrent…
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Winging It North The Returning Birds of Valdez They appear at just the right juncture of the seasons, when characteristic cold begins to dissolve under the warming northern sun. We usually hear them before an actual sighting, their liquid notes soft against our eardrums, in contrast to the…
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Valdezeans are nothing if not optimistic. In the latter part of March, the slightest warming trend, just a hint of melting snow, and we start talking spring. It’s as if these vernal prompts reawaken a part of our brain rendered dormant with the onset of winter cold. I know, I know. Every year we…
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In a particular sense it is a world unto itself, wrought with contradictions that prove an irresistible draw. Set within town limits—at least on paper--this paradoxical hub of both surging activity and moody introspection seems in some indefinable way separate, beyond geographical borders. It is an…
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Its origins are swathed in the mists of antiquity, a whispered legend told around wilderness campfires. It is a story recounted by the real old timers, those sourdoughs who have seen mysterious things in the Land of the Midnight Sun. With eyes averted, they stare into the dark woods, and they are…
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It rises into a drab winter sky, this contorted obelisk of ice, frozen in mid-cascade. A startling blue against the low-cloud gray, Bridal Veil falls forms a stairway of sorts, its sculpted benches marking the spot of summertime tumbling over water-shorn rock. To some, its dizzying…
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