Jody’s Big Wild Life Blog

It’s fun to visit places that are closer to the equator than Alaska, but I’m not sure I’d like to live there. As a child of the Northern Hemisphere, it’s hard to imagine life without the transitional beauty of changing seasons. I love moving from one time of year to the next, contemplating the metaphorical ties to life. In Alaska, the difference between the seasons is so pronounced, it’s as if you blink your eyes and the world changes.

I recently took a walk to Westchester Lagoon with Emily, my daughter, and Sophie, our dog. While traversing around lagoon, I snapped a few pictures of the two of them on the shore. Later, while uploading the pictures to my computer, I found another file with a similar shot. Similar in that it was taken in the exact same spot, only two months earlier. The difference in the colors of the landscape and the glint of the sun in that short stretch of time is profound.

In the first shot, the summer warmed my daughters face as its rays reflected off the calm waters of the lagoon. I find equal pleasure in the shot of her under October skies, as she is surround by the first flakes of winter snow.

For me, the changing seasons are a reminder that life is always beginning again, and my perception of the world stays as fresh as springtime dew on the Chugach Mountains..