Evening Photos

We had a wonderful sunset last evening. I thought that I had missed the best part but I don't think this photo is too bad.



Here is the same sunset from a rabbit's eye view.



Then, looking the other way, I saw the "snow" moon was coming up.

Saturday - Ski Day

I missed the sunrise this morning but did capture this photo from the bus window as we sped along the highway up to ski country.



As you can see from this photo, all the skiers were stopping often to look at the amazing snow on the trees and shrubs.



Conditions have to be just right for snow to land and stay in trees like this. There can not be a hint of wind and the snow has to be light but a little sticky. The name for this kind of snow is "Qali." For other names for snow look here and here.



Here is another trail photo. You can see that the trails we were on for this Saturday ski were often narrow, single tracked, and with trees close by on either side. (For those in the Whorled Leaves reading group, Susan Cooper in her May 3rd entry writes about the Beech trees keeping their leaves all winter. The orangy-brown leaves showing up in this photo are beech. The bright yellow-green needles are on White Cedar trees.)



For those of us who went to school on buses, we were told, time and time again, to stay in our seats while the bus is in motion. Adults sometimes think the rules don't apply to them. This was the result of a fall that an adult, who should have known better, had on our ski bus on the way home yesterday.



The bus had to brake suddenly, not unexpectedly on a six lane highway with lots of traffic, and the man who was standing to put something into an overhead bin lost his balance and fell against the front window of the bus. It could have been much worse! Imagine if his hard head would have hit the bus driver! Actually, I don't want to think too much about that. As far as I know, the only damage done was the cracked front windscreen on the right side of the bus and a bump on the head. As I said, it could have been much, much worse.

Snowy Friday

We woke up to snow.



And it snowed, off and on, all day.



But there is still not much on the ground. I will have to go north to cross-country ski on Saturday.

Frost & Cobwebs + Sun

Our sunset, yesterday, was wonderful. I was about two minutes too late for the best but I thought this was still worth posting.



Our sunrise this morning was interesting with the small slit of bright colour between horizon and cloud, behind trees, and a bit of colour above.



This bit of frost gathering around a grass stem that was poking through some ice caught my attention as I headed for the barn this morning.



Inside the barn, Églantine created an interesting photo of cobwebs from above the dog's night quarters.

Frosty February 8

The wind has calmed down this morning so our -6 temperature was quite pleasant. It helped that the sun came out too.



From inside the barn I found this tree-like frost image to be quite beautiful.



On the outside of the barn, there were lots of icicles. I turned this one on its side as the shape reminded me of two individuals getting ready to descend a bobsled run. Perhaps I have winter olympics on the brain?



I almost forgot to mention that I just updated my Wild Flower web site. There were eight (8) flowers found last week in our area.