SPRING!

When you look outside here, it doesn't look like spring. But it is. If you can get your vehicle out of the slushy soup of melting snow and silt mud, and make your way off the camp property, spring is evident (just don't look at the mountains, they'll fool you). When I went into Anchorage the last two weekends I could observe two things:

1: Snow was missing. It was in heaps from where people had plowed it, but not on the group.
2: There are no winter jackets to be seen. Its hitting 38, and even the 40's, which for me means go with a light jacket or no jacket. No lie... it is warm to me.

Then you come back up the highway to Victory. Seeing that it has just had a little snow fall today, you wouldn't have noticed the spring snow and ice "break-up". But there it is. Patches of dirt road peek through the snow revealing that spring is on its way. And then there are the areas of the river that are showing through. The snow mounds have decreased. And you can open a window to freshen the house up. And most of all... THE ALLERGIES HAVE KICKED IN!!!
Spring is here in Alaska. Which means that soon, and very soon, summer will be here. And so will the beauty in which God will display to thousands that pilgrimage here for a glimpse of what they believe to be the last frontier.

Enjoy this day that God has made.
-Daryl