Once winter’s monochrome has been washed away by spring rains, it doesn’t take long for summer’s wildflowers to take bloom. On the central Kenai Peninsula, lupine is perhaps as emblematic of early summer as fireweed is for the first weeks of autumn. But many other varieties decorate the land in the months of June and July. Here, with a piano solo from Kenai musician Maria Allison, are a few of those flowers.

Members of the Peninsula Modelers Association take to the sky with a variety of remote control airplanes. Each Father’s Day, they meet on Wik Lake in Nikiski for their annual Float Fly event.

Learn more about the group from their Web site.

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