I'm very blessed to live in Alaska.
It's finally one of our favorite times of the year here in the Arctic.
It's the end of May and the sun rises at 3 am.
It's sets at 2 am.
All the daylight inspires you to get out there and get started on all your summer work.
Shortly after the bay breaks up is the best time for harvesting herring.
The herring are highly prized for their eggs, meat, oil and mash, and
also because they are the first fish of spring. The return of the
herring breaks the winter scarcity of fresh food and heralds the spring
renewal of life.
“Herring provide the food source for almost every other animal in the
water that we gather,” said interviewee Tammy Young. “They are on the
ground floor.”
“Herring are the key to the ocean. They are our buffalo,” said Mike Miller of Sitka in the study.
I like herring now and then, but for many people here herring is an important food source.
The change from winter to summer is so drastic. Beautiful days like this make up for the cold, dark weeks of winter.
(Those are the days I don't even want to think about!)
Can you believe it's already the end of May???
Summer days slip away way too fast.
I'm planning to enjoy every single one of them!
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