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Alaska cabins

Share photos of what you love most about your cabin; bonus for any outhouses that make it into your submissions.

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Reader-submitted: 2012 Bicycling

Location: Anchorage, 04/18/2011 Three-wheeling Bud!

Share photos of your races, rides, tricks or even your favorite bike.

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Alaska birds

Location: Parks Hwy Northern Hawk Owl

Alaska is home to hundreds of different migrating bird species and readers have posted hundreds of their bird-watching finds. Share your photos.

RSVP: May 2012

Location: Bagram, Afghanistan, 05/01/2012 CW2 Clinton K. Brown III of the Alaska Army National Guard with President Obama 1 May 2012 in Bagram, Afghanistan

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.

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Reader-submitted: Alaska Gardens 2012

Location: 05/21/2012, Indian The beginning of summer!

Alaska-themed Tattoos

Location: Our home in Anchorage, 01-29-2011 This photo was taken when our baby Jameson (who was born 16 days late on his Daddy's birthday, Jan 24) was 5 days old. The arm on the left is mine, and the arm on the right is my Husband, Aaron. We have matching arm bands that are the same design as our wedding rings, which are Alaska Soul Catcher design by Alaskan Jewelry maker Jerry Hill, which we got from the Rusty Harpoon here in Anchorage. The Arm bands were done by Jake at Body Piercing Unlimited here in Anchorage, who did a great job with the tribal design and replicating the design on the ring.

A collection of Alaska-themed tattoos pulled from our reader-submitted tattoo gallery.

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Baby bison

Wednesday, May 9, 2012, a wood bison cow gave birth to the first calf of the season at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. The Center is expecting about 40 wood bison calves this spring. This calf is in addition to the two musk oxen calves that the Center has seen born this year, and there is also the possibility of elk calves later in the spring. The Center will be open for free admission to all on Sunday in celebration of Mother's Day. These calves are the perfect addition to an exciting mother's day.

Birds of Spring

A trumpeter swan yearling preens on Chester Creek Monday morning April 9, 2012 between Spenard Road and Minnesota Drive. The swans and other migratory waterfowl have started arriving at the creek over the past week or so.

Resident and migratory birds are busy feeding, courting and preparing for nesting as spring arrives at thawing Westchester Lagoon, the Cook Inlet shoreline and other ponds and lakes around Anchorage.

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Spring babies

Musk ox mothers stick close to their calves at the Musk Ox Farm in Palmer on Thursday, May 3, 2012. Twelve musk oxen have been born so far this season at the Musk Ox Farm. Staff at the farm are busy combing the animals to gather quviut which will be made into hats and scarves by Oomingmak, a cooperative of craftspeople. The Musk Ox Farm officially opens for the season on Mother's Day, May 13. Mothers are admitted free to the annual open house.

Twelve musk oxen have been born so far this season at the Musk Ox Farm. Staff at the farm are busy combing the animals to gather quviut which will be made into hats and scarves by Oomingmak, a cooperative of craftspeople. The Musk Ox Farm officially opens for the season on Mother's Day, May 13. Mothers are admitted free to the annual open house.

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Black bear

Photo by Chris BeckerA black bear wanders the area between Buckner Bridge in Bicentennial Park and the Campbell Creek Science Center, Friday April 13, 2012.

Photographer Chris Becker captured this spring bear in Bicentennial Park near the Buckner bridge, Friday, April 13, 2012.

Great Gray Owl

A great gray owl hunts for rodents while perching on the trees, float plane tails and sheds along the shore of Lake Hood Sea Plane Base on Friday, March 9, 2012 in Anchorage, AK.

A great gray owl at Lake Hood Sea Plane Base.

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Roof moose

A calf wandered up to a rooftop after the owner had shoveled the roof, leaving a nice entrance ramp. The moose was less willing to get off the roof than to get on. Saturday March 10, 2012.

A moose calf took a stroll up a large pile of snow and found itself on top of a garage roof in Anchorage, Alaska. After browsing on high branches and causing stress to its mother and the neighbors, it came off and was reunited with its mother.

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Stuck cub

This photo provided by Michael Keye Schuler shows a bear cub with its head stuck in a container Sunday, March 4, 2012 on top of Deer Mountain in Ketchikan, Alaska. Schuler was hiking when he found the cub on the summit, and was able to set it free.

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Owls

Doug Lindstrand / www.douglindstrand.comA great gray owl is one of many owls people have observed near the coast in western Anchorage.At least five species of owls have been seen around the Anchorage area the winter of 2012.

Anchorage has seen at least five species of owls this winter. The great gray owls have been hunting by the coast, near the airport.