7/13/05 This guy is on CRACK.  Perpetually daylight is like something out of "Dante's Inferno."  (!)

      7/13/05 I REALLY hope that's not the apartment:

      It wasn't.  :)

      7/13/05 (Hmm. -Correct date?) A little humanity/creativity/personality shown at the pizza place on campus:

      7/15/05 The moose, the moose--the moose is on the loose.  Moose shown (at the limit of "digital zoom") on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

      Ya' know---I'll bet one doesn't see much of this at the University of Miami.  :)

      7/16/05 Now someone--and I'm not saying who--drew a RHINOCEROS!! on the "chalkboard" in the coffee room at the Geophysical Institute.  All the other sketches sort of grew around it, over time.  :)

      7/16/05 When I came out of Cold Spot Feeds (They're a really cool store---they let me bring in Rosie!!  :) :) ), there were some *NASTY* clouds, to the north:

      7/16/05 And when I came back out, they were even worse:

      !!

      Now, in the artic, it is not infrequent for clouds that would either make one call one's insurance agent, or grab one's ankles--or BOTH! :) --to not produce much in the way of storm[ing].  These ones, however, spawned a storm of almost . . . epic intensity.  It was raining SOO hard--that I could barely keep my big 4-wheel drive truck on the road [Airport Way].  That was cool.  :)

      And while I was in the local supermarket (Fred Meyers), the thunder was shaking the whole building.  (!!) I found out later that the same thing was happening in a building across Airport Way (in [the] "Teddy Bear Plaza" :) )---a group of visually impaired peeps was sitting there, feeling the building being shook by the thunder.  Some of those people had been in Alaska for over 25 years---and yet all agreed: they had never experienced anything like that.  The summer of 2005 was a crazy season for thunderstorms in the Interior.

On to more Alaska pics.