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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

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

Mixon stands next to a display of Market shirts on opening day.-Photo by Michael Armstrong

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Homer Farmers Market opens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Always getting ready

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

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Big show

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