Another thing we saw on July 12 was the Alaska pipeline, which brings oil down from the farthest northern reaches of Alaska to the south where tankers can fill up with the oil all year long.
This excellent graphic display shows the extent of the pipeline. I hadn't realized it goes all the way down this very (very) large state. Too bad there's no "you are here" -- Fairbanks is a little more than half way down, north-to-south-wise, so I imagine we were pretty close to that southward bend in the middle.
The pipe is pretty big. We were told that caribou shelter under it in nasty weather.
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Of course there are flowers. Cultivated ones outside the rustic souvenir stand.
(Everywhere we went in Alaska there were cultivated flowers, fireweed, and souvenir stands..... Fireweed is not the state flower, but as one of our tour bus drivers suggested, it probably ought to be.)
Yarrow and grass. Fireweed in the background.
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Alaska just explodes with plant growth in the summer. Nature makes good use of the growing season. That's where all the "Giant" record setting vegetables come from, isn't it?
Love the flower pictures.
Thanks!
It was in Anchorage that the big flower/big plant thing was most visible. Familiar plants, WAY bigger than in Michigan. Sweet alyssum, begonias.... One public garden in Anchorage had some cabbages. They were big, and only on their way to getting much bigger. I'll show them when we get to Anchorage.....
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