Category: Nature
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Strangers
Friday was record warm and rainy so many of our streams and rivers are at flood stage. Yesterday was cold with heavy snow and a thick blanket of new snow has covered the briefly bare ground. This morning brought bright blue sky and sun, the landscape ablaze with light and deep shadow. We are at…
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Christmas Tree: World Tree
“Now Christmas is past, Twelfth Night is the last, To the Old Year adieu, Great joy to the new!” — Traditional Carol This morning dawned bright and cold, – 19 F cold. Lots of evaporative fog over the lake. Major thaw coming later this week? This morning Jennie left to work in Africa for two…
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Early Winter Thoughts
It is just before 5 p.m.. The sun set a few minutes ago, far to the south of where it set during the summer. Clouds over the lake obscured the sun as it made its descent, erasing what had been a promising sunset. Now, the sky overhead has cleared and the bare limbs of trees…
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Windigo
A dramatic day of snow showers and sun, falling temperatures and gusty breezes. As November ends, we are reminded that winter nears. We also note that even in this La Nina year temperatures are much above the long-term norms. Still, winter, the time of the windigo, insatiable giants with hearts of ice, approaches.
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