OCT 17, 26.. AUTUMN IN ANCHORAGE..

You can thank our good friend Gullible, or you can blame Gullible, for this short look at Autumn here in Anchorage, Alaska, yesterday on October the 16th.

Why?

Gullible has often advised me .. "Cap when you are stuck, go out, and take some photographs, and publish them."

We have not yet published one Post here on Google Blogspot this October.

Yesterday Patti and I had three (3 count them) medical appointments. One appointment will occupy a day. Three medical appointments take over a day!!

Finally Patti and I ended up at Providence Hospital for the final medical appointment.

As I was coming out of Providence, I was stunned with the absolute beauty of yesterday's Autumn leaves.

Looking out at our Autumn Leaves in our Green Strip.

Thank You Gullible for your support!!

Cap and Patti.

OCT 18, 25.. AUTUMN LEAVES IN ANCHORAGE..

It's now Autumn 2025 up here in Anchorage. 

Autumn everywhere is so beautiful.

Soon (early November) Patti and I will "fly away to Arizona" to spend winter there.

Before we two "fly away" we wanted to show you our local landscape contractor's annual project of clearing up and removing our Autumn Leaves.

Taa Daa..

Here we go!

Leaves? Did we say Leaves? We most certainly have leaves after our local trees have finished "shedding their green summer leaves".

Step One for our local landscaping contractor, is to move the leaves into several collection areas.

Yes Oh Yes Indeed. It is a "very loud project"!

Now the leaves have been gathered into several smaller collections.

Now the process of gathering the leaves up and removing them from our Green Strip begins. 

This is "quite a process".

Now they move the leaves onto the flat, open, tarpaulin.

Now they are taking this load of leaves out to the front of our building.

At the front of our building, a special truck awaits the loads of leaves.

Whewie! As you can see, this is some job!

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Last year Gullible asked us:

I wonder what happens to the leaves after they leave your area?

It depends 100% upon who owns the truck. The Municipality of Anchorage (MofA) or a private contractor hired by the MofA.

The MofA work crews dispose of them in various city owned dump sites, from ordinary sanitary land fill areas to other city owned dumps.

The private contractors are free to dispose of the leaves as they wish provided they do not break MofA Ordinances governing dumps.

Due to MofA Ordinances, the leaves are not used for mulch because of the odor that would arise therefrom.

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The job is now finished for another year!

Cap and Patti and Ginny down in Laughlin, Nevada, who assisted us in downloading the photos!!

OCT 19, 24 .. AUTUMN LEAVES 2024..

Today's Post is courtesy of Tom and Ginny, our great friends and guest contributors who live in Southern Nevada. Along with me, we all grew up in Michigan.

Yes it is a short Post but a very sweet one.

By The Way (BTW), these photos were taken in Michigan! So here's to Michigan!

Wowie! Beautiful! Thank You Tom, and Thank You Ginny, so very much for being today's Guest Contributors.

Cap and Patti