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Growing up in Alaska I had always taken it for granted that when Bob Ross painted outdoor scenes they looked just like the outdoors I was used to. It's funny ho
by weeksie 3y ago
Growing up in Alaska I had always taken it for granted that when Bob Ross painted outdoor scenes they looked just like the outdoors I was used to. It's funny how that never stood out enough for me to see it as peculiar, given that absolutely no other media showed landscapes that were similar to the one I grew up in.
- itronitron 3y agoHaving grown up east of the Mississippi River, I always assumed they were fantastical, imaginary landscapes.
- weeksie 3y agoHa! I love it.
- aidenn0 3y agoI was surprised that deciduous trees edged-out conifers. My (completely uninformed) mental image of Alaska is "Mostly pine, with other conifers sprinkled in." Can you confirm that deciduous trees are prevalent in Alaska?
- weeksie 3y agoLots of them mixed in. We get a ton of alders and birches, but in the winter it looks like everything is coniferous b/c the leaves are off the others. Where I was it was lots of spruce, but I grew up in the coastal rainforest in Prince William Sound and Alaska is a big, big place.
- aidenn0 3y agoThanks for answering!