In Nome, the wildflowers come before the tundra has even begun to green.   At the top of the mountain I found amazing varieties and wanted to share them with you.   God is so amazing!   His creativity and handiwork are found in secret places.  They bloom where the ice and snow have barely thawed, before the tough tundra even changes hue.   Those little wildflowers have inspired me to not resist God at work in my own life, even though the chill of this year of illness lingers all about me.   It’s so easy to want to mope at times!   Take a lesson from the wildflowers!  

(We forgot the camera, so all I had was Nathan’s phone to use for the pics.   Some are a bit fuzzy... sorry!   In the last pictures, yes, that is Caleb crawling on the mountain top.   And yes, that is musk ox “berries” he found and began to eat.  AAUGH! There were three herds on the mountain tonight, one had five calves!   So cute!    The last pic with a flower you can see the ground all broken up.    A bear had been feeding on a musk ox, you can see the rib cage in the background.)