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Alaska cabins

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Reader-submitted: 2012 Bicycling

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

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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

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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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Hikers watch an annular eclipse from Papago Park in Phoenix on Sunday, May 20, 2012. The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges, was visible to wide areas across China, Japan and elsewhere in the region before moving across the Pacific to be seen in parts of the western United States.

An annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun, was widely visible in Asia before moving across the Pacific to be seen in parts of the western United States Sunday May 20, 2012.

Spring in Alaska

Last years cow parsnip stalk stands against the sky as new shoots break through the ground in Kincaid Park on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

After the snow spring arrives.

Springtime Litter

As the record snow melts in south central Alaska, what seems like a record amount of trash litters the side of the roads, snow dumps and parking lots. A plastic cap in a scenic view parking lot along the Seward Highway and Turnagain Arm on Thursday, April 19, 2012.

Melting snow revels winters trash.

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.

Breakup 2012

A puddle forms on a path along Benson Boulevard Monday afternoon April 9, 2012 near Latouche Street in Midtown.

Following the snowiest winter on record, Anchorage transitions to a breakup tempered by sunshine and snow evaporation.

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Falklands

In this photo taken on Sunday, March 4, 2012, old houses, some dating from the 1800s, are seen in Stanley, Falkland Islands. Falkland Islanders are still bristling over the invasion by Argentina 30 years ago, but they're not complaining about its aftermath. The April 2, 1982 invasion led by Argentina's dictators and the subsequent war with Britain launched a process that transformed the islands from a sleepy backwater of sheep farms into a prosperous outpost whose residents enjoy one of the highest per capita incomes in the Western Hemisphere.

The Falkland Islands are a little known set of islands off the coast of Argentina. The Falklands have struck oil, potentially pumping billions of dollars into their treasury. One downside is the potential for a major spill in seas where penguins, whales, seals and other marine mammals are drawn to unspoiled coasts.

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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Aurora

The northern lights streak across the sky in this view over the Yukon River in Ruby, Alaska, late Thursday, March 8, 2012. Frontrunners in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race were expected to reach Ruby early Friday, March 9, 2012, where the trail begins to travel the Yukon River.

The recent solar storm has produced dazzling aurora borealis around the north.