a day off

I discovered, to my chagrin, that if the internet is UP and I'm typing onto the blog - if the internet goes DOWN - everything evaporates!
In the blog that evaporated, I thanked Martin & Didi & Jane for writing ANYTHING - thanks -you help me center.
I rode the train 2 hours toward Anchorage and then two trains stopped and I hopped off the southbound train and hopped onto the northbound train to expedite incoming passengers to Denali - it was SO much FUN and I got lots of pictures. Perhaps - someday, there will be time and opportunity to post those.
Today is my day off. I lay in bed a very long time with my book, EAST OF EDEN - (thanks again, Martin - for the idea). I just can't put the book down. I had forgotten so much.
I'm meeting a friend in a few minutes and we're checking on vacancies for either of two trips this afternoon - either a plane ride up to Kanteeshha and a bus trip back (the FULL length of the road into the park) or a plane ride to McKinley with a landing on a glacier. We'll settle for either. I hope the weather will hold.
A pair of foxes raised 9 kits right outside our housing - but they grew up and left just before I returned. A grizzly has been seen several times very near - and the warning signs are up again on our lodging. A female moose has been seen standing in the middle of the highway, appearing disoriented - there is no sign of the calf. I believe the mother is grieving. At least she hasn't been seen in the road in the past couple of days.
The fireweed has blossomed all the way to the top and the saying is that winter is six weeks away from the last blooms of the fireweed. It feels like September is approaching quickly. The air is chillier - some leaves are beginning to turn.
Here spring is in June. Summer is July. Autumn is August. Then 9 months of winter.
My favorite season is autumn so I will enjoy 2 autumns this year.