The following is an actual road sign from Cantwell, Alaska. -Apparently, this says something about what they think of some of the local denizens. :)
Except for the additions of the holly and the elf, this is an undoctored photograph, taken by a one Daniel Osborne.
(Original) Photo by Daniel Osborne (I have NO IDEA who added the elf, etc., 'n stuff.)
Remember the weird Christmas "house" from Safeway's I put up a LONNNNGG time ago, 'n stuff? -Well, here is like, a cool V.D. display, 'n stuff.
People in the far north tend to have a LOT of time on there hands. . . . :)
After ALL these years of trying to take a good Denali pic---and here I take one--almost by accident. This was taken from a moving shuttle bus, in front of the Natural Sciences Facility. Denali/Mt. McKinley is the blob just to the left of the setting sun; it is over 150 miles (!!) away.
A view of Fairbanks from my advisor's front lawn--on a cold winter's day:
View over the Tanana Flats, February, 2003. If ones look VERY closely, one can just see (far out, dead center) smoke rising from a chimney, trapped under a "temperature inversion." It extended southward for miles.
