According to the celestial calendar, we still have a solid six weeks until the beginning of winter.

Alaska, it seems, didn't get the memo.

Though I'm sad that summer and autumn are over so quickly, there's a part of me that welcomes winter. There are so many parks and trails in Anchorage that it's easy to go off by oneself (with one's doggie, of course) and enjoy that winter solitude in a world that is oh-so-quiet. Trees are especially beautiful around this time -- they either bear the frost or a thick vertical pile of snow.

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