2007 Favorite Photos - Spring Sunrise

One of my favorite photos of the year.

I took this in late April as I was driving north from Homer to Kenai for a training class. Our spring weather is often a series of cloudless and calm days--as this one promised to be.

I often tell prospective visitors to think of coming to see us in May. Sure, the terrain will still be struggling out of late winter and it may not all be green yet but we have some gorgeous weather in the Spring.

Our summers can alternate between a week of clear, fine weather and a week or more of low clouds and rain. Then, about mid-July, we reach a point in the cycle where old Pacific storms crawl up the east coast of Asia into the Gulf of Alaska and bring us days and days of humid, windy and wet weather.

But these achingly beautiful days of Spring...

Clear nights will put a bite in the early morning air and frequently there will be ice on the puddles on a morning like this. But by mid morning, it will have melted and by the afternoon, we will be shrugging out of our heavy shirts and driving with the windows down.

You know you're an Alaskan when: you use your ice scraper and your air conditioner on the same day...

We laugh because it is true.

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