Lens Artists Photo Challenge #15: Changing and/or Changeable
We took our second trip to Anchorage, Alaska in May 2018. Our first visit was several years ago one week after the summer season. We missed going to Denali by one week because the train was close. Every year the train stops going to Denali to let the snow pile up during winter. This time I did my booking to ensure a tour to Denali.
On the day of the tour, we boarded the coach in the morning. The weather was not very promising. The tour guide said it couldn’t guarantee to have a clear sky to view Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain of the northernmost of the United States which is 20,320 feet.
As the coach went further north, the clear sky appeared. By the time we arrived the viewing area, it was sunny, and we could see the distant Mt. McKinley even though the peak is always covered with clouds. It was a spectacular view surrounded by snowy mountains with several feet of snow piled up on the ground.
We returned to the hotel in the afternoon. By 5:00 p.m. the wind in the sky moved in a drastic speed. Within half an hour, the fog and clouds hurried in, the snowy mountains disappeared in the darkness.
It was a dramatic changing of weather within a day.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #15 – Changing and/or Changeable
The Showers of Blessings 
Pingback: Lens-Artists Challenge #48 – WILD | The Showers of Blessings
A great choice for changeable, Miriam. Your photos illustrate this beautifully.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Patti, thank you so much. I love the theme for this week also. Will get to it soon.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Great photos and perfect for the prompt. We had a similar experience in Japan to your first trip to Alaska. We couldn’t see Mt. Fuji because of the weather, so we’re planning another trip in the spring. What camera and lenses did you use to take these pictures. They’re gorgeous! 😀 xx
LikeLiked by 1 person
I want to see Mt. Fuji also, probably another trip. I just use a portable Canon with 70x zoom. My daughter’s Samsung cellphone takes excellent photo also. When iPhone 7 was out, there was a huge billboard along the freeway, at the lower corner, it advertised that the picture was taken with iPhone 7. 🙂 xox
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh, that’s great. Thank you. ❤ xx
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re welcome, Vashti. ❤ xox
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wonderful photos, Miriam. Love the look of winter skies and mountains. ❤
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much, Olga. We were fortunate to have good weather to see the mountains. ❤
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wow, what a trip that must have been. The photos are spectacular, especially the snow-capped mountains. 🙂 ❤
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much, Debby! We were fortunate to have nice weather. ❤ 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wow amazing snowy with brown interspersed mountain captures Miriam. Must have been ab experience
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you so much, Abrie. Alaska does feel the climate change and the snow melts more and faster.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Your photographs are breathtaking, Miriam. What a wonderful trip.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you, Robbie. The weather turned out great. It was the first week of their summer tours, not all of them were available. I was glad to find this one. We had a wonderful trip.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wow this is so beautiful Miriam, and what a great picture of you and your husband 🙂 Thanks you for sharing them with us 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you, Margaret. 🙂 We love travel. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
My son climbed Denali, but I didn’t know it could be seen from Anchorage. Thanks for the great pics and insights, Miriam.
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re welcome, Michael. Wow, your son must be very adventuresome to climb Denali. The very top shows up in between other lower mountains but we were told that the peak won’t be seen even on a clear day.
LikeLike
Thanks for sharing these Beautiful Pictures Sister in Christ-Messiah Jesus-Yeshua!! Our ONE TRUE CREATED HIS Beauty Amen-Amein!!
Love Always and Shalom ( Peace ), YSIC \o/
Kristi Ann
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re very welcome, Kristine! ❤ 🙂
LikeLike
Love your photos. I hope that we get to make it up to Alaska sometime to sight see. My parents have gone 3 times in the last 2 years by cruise ship!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you for your kind comment. The tour to Denali was an excursion of a cruise ship, but they also take people from Anchorage, so we joined them. It was a wonderful trip!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Great photos Miriam 🌹
LikeLiked by 2 people
So good to see you, Elaine. I have been sick with a flu.
LikeLiked by 2 people
I’m sorry to hear that Miriam I hope you are feeling better now 🌹
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’m not taking antibiotics so it will heal very slowly. It will take strong antibiotics to work for my body now because I’ve taken so much.
LikeLiked by 1 person
You take care and don’t over do it 🌹
LikeLiked by 1 person
I know, thank you, Elaine. ❤
LikeLiked by 1 person
Definitely a destination we want to tick of our bucket list!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Yes, we had a wonderful trip. Good to hear that you plan on going.
Thank you so much to stop by and comment. I’m glad to be back doing my post after this dragging flu. 😦
LikeLiked by 2 people
Glad you’re feeling better, Miriam!
Not so much planning yet as hoping and praying!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, I know how it goes. There’re so many places we want to go and pray to be in good health and go someday!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Awesome photos and Alaska is really unique 😊
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you, Y. My post after a long break – flu and other busy schedule. 🙂
LikeLiked by 2 people
Oh hope you are 100% now
🙏💜
LikeLiked by 1 person
It will be in a week, I hope. 🙂 ❤
LikeLiked by 1 person
My
Hubby and I were stationed in Anchorage for 3 years. Alaska is breathtaking.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Yes, my hubby and I love to go there. He wants to go often. You must have a good time there for three years.
LikeLiked by 2 people
We did!! I was in the Air Force and he was in the Army. It was where we got married. I’d love to go back one day.
LikeLiked by 1 person
What a great place to meet and got married. Congratulations. Yes, maybe on an anniversary!!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Beautiful photo captures of the glorious mountains covered with snow. Change of the weather was so fast there… Love the cloudscape of the last image.
Thank you for sharing with us, Miriam!
LikeLiked by 2 people
You’re welcome, Amy. Thank you so much for the prompt!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I had a similar experience Miriam. The day we arrived at the park the view was breathtaking. I was up until about 11:30 pm shooting but I was exhausted and thought I’d shoot more as the week went on. It was the last time we saw the mountain! The rest of the week was cloudy and drizzly. But I’ll never forget the glory of the mountain for that one wonderful evening! Loved your photos – such a fond memory, thanks!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Tina, I was nervous all the way until I saw the clear sky because not know when we would be back again. Yes, I took tons of photos and afraid the memories would fade once we left. The view was breathtaking. Among all the travel, I had never seen the snowy mountains so close (as if they were close) by. It was a wonderful trip. Thank you, Tina!
LikeLiked by 1 person