The Fall season is changing to winter soon and our transportation changes from boat to snowmachine. Jeff got the boat all tarped up and stored away protected from the winter weather to come and he got one snowmachine out to work on to get it ready for winter season.

It snowed in the city already. Here’s pics. That was last week though and it’s all gone now. It had been in the 30’s in the days and the snow stuck around a few days. It’s supposed to be in the 40’s during the days this week and snow isn’t expected again until next week when it gets back to the 30’s in the daytime. The nights have been mostly 30’s and a few 20’s. I already got my winter coat, gloves and hat out. I’ll be getting my snow boots out soon.

Walking down the city street today I saw Canadian Geese still here having lunch in the lawn. You can see the snow on the mountains and 4 days ago there was snow in the city that stayed on the ground for days. I’m surprised the geese haven’t flown south yet. It was a nice Fall day but there won’t be many more of them this year.

Spent one of the last nice Fall days watching the ducks at the lake before they take off for the winter.

As you head north from Anchorage Mt McKinley rises above the road and from Talkeetna you get some great views too.

Mt McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America is 133 air miles from Anchorage yet it’s so big that you can still see it on a clear day. Here’s one view of it from town.

Jeff and I went to one of our favorite restaurants in Talkeetna, the H & H Restaurant and Bar. They make the best burgers! It’s a real rustic place that’s been around for decades. It’s right off the highway but located on a parcel of land on a beautiful lake. It’s got a real Alaskan atmosphere.

Jeff and I spent the night at my rustic place in Talkeetna and cooked up our grayling on the grill for breakfast. There’s no electricity so we definitely had to heat up the wood stove inside the cabin. We had a fire going outside in the burn barrel and hung out outside getting things winterized before snow falls. One of the things we had to do was empty the barrel of rainwater we collected over the summer since we have no running water there. We put the barrel up for winter but will set it back up next Spring.

Jeff and I did one last Fall fishing trip. We were fishing for grayling but I also got a rainbow trout which was beautiful. I’ve never caught one before. He fought a little harder than the grayling, jumping out of the water to try to get away. We let him go but kept the grayling.

We took a drive up north and along the way there was so much fireweed seeded out it looked white everywhere. Normally in bloom fireweed is bright pink. Pretty soon snow will really make everything white. In the first picture even though the forests are regrowing and people are rebuilding you can still see damage along the highway from the huge Sockeye fire of 2015.