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Steven Michael Allen paints his wooden boat at the Kachemak Bay Wooden Boat Festival on Saturday. The boat building shop for kids is always a popular event.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
Homer’s Best Bets
September 10, 2015 10:13 am

The sandhill crane colts have begun to gather together for the big migration. On the Spit, except for a few…

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Mixon stands next to a display of Market shirts on opening day.-Photo by Michael Armstrong
Homer Farmers Market opens
May 28, 2015 1:53 pm

There are all kinds of ways to judge the return of spring and summer. The arrival of sandhill cranes. The…

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Four sandhill cranes fly over Beluga Slough last Thursday, the advance scout of a wave of cranes that arrived on the lower Kenai Peninsula over the weekend.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
Homer’s Best Bets
April 30, 2015 9:38 am

Last Thursday the Betster took a photo safari looking for sandhill cranes at Beluga Slough. The B. got a solid…

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A leaf and berries lie on a boulder in the Pratt Museum’s botanical garden last Friday — one of the best places in town to do some fall “leaf peeping,” as they call it in New England.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
Homer’s Best Bets
October 2, 2014 10:34 am

Every October we enter the cusp of winter, or winter as we Alaskans define it. Alaska doesn’t cycle through the…

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Kristen Tonga sketches outside Ptarmigan Arts last week for First Friday. Tonga was in town visiting family. For a donation, she offered 10-minute portrait sketches.       -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News
Homer’s Best Bets
September 12, 2013 9:47 am

An alert observer of the natural world e-mailed the Betster with an update on the sandhill crane migration. “Huge Normandy…

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Always getting ready
Always getting ready
September 5, 2013 9:40 am

A sandhill crane hides behind a rose bush on a Homer lawn. Kachemak Crane Watch is doing its third day…

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Big show
Big show
March 8, 2013 12:35 pm

A great gray owl sits on a downed spruce tree just off West Hill Road early Monday evening. The owl…

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