Kenai Peninsula · Alaska

March Musings

Dispatches from the Last Frontier

March in Alaska is a season of contradictions — the light is coming back, stretching longer each morning, and yet the ground still holds winter like a secret it isn't ready to share. The birch trees stand bare but patient. The spruce are heavy with old snow. Somewhere beneath the frozen earth, something is already deciding to grow.

This is the month of mud boots by the door and seed catalogs on the table. Of watching the days unfurl toward the long golden summer ahead — when the garden will burst to life with a speed that still surprises, no matter how many seasons you've lived here. March is the quiet breath before all of it begins.

Written from the Kenai, where winter lingers and hope arrives early — March 2026 
All Photos © EM / Willow Ptarmigan