June 2 Woke up to the pitter patter of rain drops on the roof. The weather forecast was correct calling for rain on and off today. It's early Sunday morning, and the coffee is hot and good.
In the week since we've arrived here at the Matanuska Air Service on the southeast shore of Anderson Lake, spring has taken a firm hold. We've seen the snows retreating from the mountainsides. The trees have transitioned from being brown trunks and limbs to multicolored hues of green. Streams are full of the meltwaters rushing to meet the ocean. Spring is ebbing and summer is waxing, and we are able to see these changes literally happening before us.
Darkness doesn't really come here at night. The sun sets at nearly 11:30 P.M. and rises about 4:30 A.M. providing nearly 19 hours of direct sunlight. Even though the sun does dip below the horizon for about 5 hours, the night time sky maintains a dusk-like glow. Surprisingly, the lack of total darkness has not interrupted our sleep.
The rain kept us indoors for the entire morning. Fortunately, being 3 hours behind Central Daylight Savings time allowed me to watch the Sprint Cup NASCAR race starting here at 9:00 A.M., Alaskan Time Zone.
Rain continued throughout the afternoon. I called my dad to see how he was doing. We watched TV and napped. Around 5:00 the rain stopped, the mountain peaks reappeared, and Peggy and I went for a walk through the neighborhood.
Tomorrow will be a prep day for our trip to Denali NP on Tuesday. Grocery shopping, laundry, and other things get attended to. I looked at the weather forecast for Denali, and it is calling for cloudy, rainy weather for the whole week. I'm not as concerned about not seeing Mt McKinley as I am more in want of seeing and photographing a grizzly bear. We'll see!
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