Moose sightings!

We've seen quite a few more moose lately, possibly because the cold has really set in, possibly just because of luck. Last night on our way home there were two walking down the street, but we could not stop for pictures because there was a bit of traffic. "Damn the luck!" we said.

However, when Art dropped me off this morning, two moose were just sort of hanging out in front of my workplace...

The snow isn't that deep, they are laying down! (Although this photo would be great to use to fool kids of the future - "Oh the snow got so deep in the winter of '09 that it was up to the moose's bellies! They couldn't even walk, just sort of swim along! And we had to walk uphill to work - both ways!" They wouldn't believe it, though. ) They kind of hung out there for a few hours, and everyone kept going to the windows to look at them. They are great big animals, and pretty peaceable seeming. We would be standing there looking, and they would just kind of turn their heads every once in a while to check out what was going on, and look at us for awhile, then turn back around. Finally, they got enough of the attention, stood up, stretched and wandered off. On their way out, though, they posed picturesquely under the company logo sign hanging on the side of our building! They stayed long enough that several of the braver souls ran out there and got some pictures Yes, we are a real Alaskan outfit - moose go out of their way to provide us with promo pics!

Meanwhile, on the other side of midtown, when Art got to work, there was one hanging out across the street from his work. He took a picture from a window.

He is a little harder to make out, but he's just in from of the tree. Apparently he had some kind of ninja-moose stealth skills or possibly a Romulan cloaking device, as several of Art's coworkers walked right past the thing - within two feet in one case - and never even noticed it. Ghost moose - there may be one right in the room with you!