Things That Turn Red Overnight

For 3 months, us Alaskans watch in amazement as our world turns green. Because somewhere in the previous nine months of rain and snow, we forgot that the color green existed in the outside world. By mid-June, the leaves have reached their full summer bloom and the gaps between the neighbor's house and your own have finally filled in with green foliage, instead of the usual peak-a-boo views of blue tarps and junk cars. Even the stubborn brown grass from the long winter begins to show life by the end of June. Throughout July and August, the understory vegetation of willow, alder, devils club, cow parsnip, ferns, and a multitude of grasses and flowers seem to grow by inches each day. Trails and paths, which were walked on a week earlier, are now narrow green winding corridors.

Then suddenly it happens . . . . I am snapping pictures of "things that turn red overnight" . . . and I know the green season is gone.
















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