At home, my backyard is, well, a paved parking lot that borders the local phone company headquarters. If you walk a few miles through my neighborhood you will actually find yourself in the middle of an international airport. Today I took a walk through a slightly different backyard. Our walk was cut short by flooding, though as you can see, not all of us were detoured by the water. A week ago, I left an area that was experiencing record levels of heat and drought. Now, I find myself half a world away in an area that is in the middle of a record-breaking streak of continuous days of rain. It is 70 degrees, sunny and everything is a lush green from all the rain. This weather is everything that summer was not on the east coast. Here, the backyard leads to a trail down to the mudflats. The flooding from the Knik Arm below the Chugach Range lends some explanation as to how this old WWII boat might have made it this far inland. Once again, I am on a walk that is impacted by water - what a fascinating barrier...
