A bitter wind had blown somewhere else that morning, and sun bounced off remnant glaciers hanging in the valleys across Kachemak Bay. We could see water, green forest, the white backbones of mountains, sharp cliffs, glittering ice, bright snow, autumn’s butterscotch spread across rolling hills, pristine clouds, and a robin’s-egg-blue sky from the ridge above […]

Categories: Place/Gardens • Tags: Alaska, Homer Alaska, Ilana Panich-Linsman, Kachemak Bay, literary essays, natural world, nature, Pacific Horticulture, Pacific Horticulture Magazine, the Literary Gardener