Short Growing Season......

A trip to Kenai, Alaska to visit friends = a summer adventure.  We've been able to explore Alaska's coast on two different cruise ships but this time we were a bit "inland". Our friends, Janie and Phil, are building a house in Kenai and we had a fun week enjoying their hospitality.

We always have a good time together but this visit really was fun and "their" Alaska did not disappoint! I guess the thing that surprised me the most was the wide variety of flowers in bloom. We found color everywhere.....and I mean big, bold and exuberant blooms!

In window boxes and border gardens.....flowers were everywhere....

Framing a mountainside as we drove to Homer and highlighting an historic Russian Orthodox Church....

Our last morning in Kenai we wandered pathways through acres of wildflowers.....

Alaska, land of snow and ice? Well not in Kenai in August.....it's mild and beautiful and colorful. And our friends are there.....well worth the trip!