The beauty of Mother Nature

The fall colors continue to thrive in our neck of the woods.  Coming from the coast rainforest of Cordova, I love having a sense of fall in Eagle River.

 We mostly have the orange and yellows, but if you look lower there is this lovely bush that is such a vibrant red.  I need to find out what the name of this bush is - it's so stunning.

We've also been blessed with some amazing sunsets this past week - I definitely miss walking along the ocean at Orca Bay to snap a photo of the setting sun. However, I was surprised to be able to look out my back door and have such a lovely sight.

This may be one of my favorites for awhile.  Leif was home with the sick kids on Wednesday, so I spent some extra time at school.  This school year has been very challenging for me in a variety of ways.  As I was driving home, tired, frustrated and unsure of my future as a teacher - this beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky.  Since I was driving, I was unable to capture it's full beauty.  It's been some time since I've seen a full rainbow in the sky - and the one above turned into that.  It was almost like I drove under the rainbow on my way home.  Simply breath taking.

As I said - sick little ones this week.  They don't look that sick here, but both have had fevers off and on throughout the week. Leif stayed home Wednesday with them and took them to doctor as strep has been going around.  Leinna is fine - just has a nasty cold - turns out that Lukkas had an ear infection.  Both seemed fine on Thursday, but then Leinna started to run a fever again, so I stayed home with them yesterday.  Good thing, because now I'm sick too :o(  Leif was smart and escaped to Fairbanks this weekend - we were all going to go - just to get out of town - but with us being sick, we thought it best to stay put.

 While Mother Nature has blessed us with the season of fall and beautiful sunsets - my brother is in South Dakota and was hit by a blizzard.  He sent this photo of my nephew enjoying all the snow - I think they ended up with 3 feet or more - according to my brother, one of the worse blizzards he's seen.

My nephew seems to love the snow and well 

Lukkas is patiently waiting for his turn to play in the snow!

Until next time - hoping everyone is healthy and safe.  Much love to you all!