How do people keep these up

I guess I just don't have enough going on in my life because I struggle to find stuff to post. My typical day is the same, trips to the grocery store or the library don't seem to be blog worthy. Hmm maybe I'll go with a play by play account of my next library trip. Things here are good though and I'll try to come up some new material outside of weather, grilling etc.

Today however, I have a few things one of which is the weather.

It started raining today. I've been told a few times that the winter shows signs of it's arrival. The first sign is snow in the mountains. My first post as you may recall was about the snow falling in the mountains, Termination Dust as it is called. The second sign is rain, cold rain and grey days slowly morphing into grey days with snow. A couple weeks ago the rain started it rained all weekend, it was cold and wet. Come Monday the snow in the mountains had melted and by Sunday it was 60 outside. Well, last Friday the snow showed up in the mountains again, today it started to rain. So, potentially the snow is on the way. The forecast has rain today which was accurate, not all that common really, the forecast typically misses on the dry side. According to Wunderground the current rain will transition into snow, leaving up to 1in in town. I'll believe it when I see it. Snow also to follow on Tuesday. I'm looking forward to it, I want to see some snow. Maybe not, I hear this voice in the back of my mind telling me "be careful what you ask for".

One of the cool things about Anchorage is the view of the Aleutian Range and to the north the Alaskan Range, which includes Denali. BTW, the Alaska Range is not part of the Continental Divide, last year this time I swore it was. More often then not the view of Denali isn't there. Looking southwest across Knik Arm and then further to Cook Inlet and its western shore the Aleutian Range or at least parts of it are visible. Yesterday was a rare day, you could see both. What was a cloudy overcast day in Anchorage with snow falling in the Chugach Mtns to the east. To the west though, the sun was out. Below are some pictures taken from downtown looking to the southwest towards the Aleutians. My camera, which typically I think is pretty sweet failed me on this one. Just like in Denali, it is hard to describe the size, yesterday the Mnts looked huge, shimmering in the sun. In my pictures, not so huge. Any way, enjoy.