Alaska, we made it!
Here we are with our RV in Denali National Park painting the view of Mt. McKinley. I warmed up with a watercolor at the table before going out and braving the artic winds. It’s incredible, I mean I don’t know if there are words to do justice to this Alaska. I just couldn’t picture this place, and now I know why: I’ve never experienced anything like it. The great vastness of the tundra landscape takes away any illusions of grandeur we may have as humans and reminds me that we are just a small part in the chain or the web of life, and being out here making little paintings of all this hugeness is just humbling and completely inspiring!It’s true that it doesn’t get dark, but we keep waiting for it to.. Eating dinner in our campsite at 11 pm while watching the sun moving slowly to the horizon tricks us into thinking that if we just stay up a little longer it will be dark. The only thing to do is force ourselves to go to bed and when we do get to bed I just pull the covers over my head pretending that it’s night time and dark out.The best part of all this daylight is we just don’t feel in a hurry. There’s plenty of time to hang out, eat and paint. Paint, paint, paint, it’s awesome! Life full of daylight really makes me reset my brain to the setting “all the time in the world”!I haven’t posted any pictures of paintings yet, but will do so in the next few days. Today we’re in Fairbanks after a few days in Denali. It’s a lot warmer here, but full of the biggest mosquitoes I’ve ever seen!This evening we’ll be headed south to check out the Kenai peninsula, can’t wait!