Friday the 13th

Honest Abe

Today is the first day of the rest of your life...

Free At Last! (As of 6:30pm tonight, listener became retired!)

With a little luck our volunteer will come in and I will be able to leave the Library in time to take in the Snowflake Bentley Symposium, which is taking place about 4 minutes away!  Mah*Sweetie will be there, too.  Hoping!!  (At worst, I'll miss about the first half of it.)

❄️ I GOT TO GO TO THE WHOLE SYMPOSIUM!!! ❄️

❄️ Snowflake Symposium! ❄️

Wilson ’Snowflake’ Bentley’s 150th Birthday Celebration

FEBRUARY 10 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM  Jericho, Vermont

The Jericho Historical Society and its Bentley Museum are pleased to announce a Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley Symposium on the occasion of his 150th birthday anniversary to be held in the Jericho Elementary School Auditorium on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Mark Breen, Meteorologist and Planetarium Director, Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, and VPR’s “Eye on the Sky” weather personality, will moderate the Snowflake Bentley Symposium. The panelists will be Dr. Bruce Berryman, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Paul Sisson, Science Operations Officer, National Weather Service, Burlington International Airport, and John Miller, Professor of Photography, Johnson State College. The distinguished Symposium Panel participants will discuss the seminal photographic and scientific contributions of Wilson A. Bentley to the Atmospheric Sciences and to the history of Photography. Following the discussion, the festivities will continue with the audience invited to share Bentley’s birthday cake. John Dunlop, cellist and Laura Markowitz, violinist, members of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, who are Jericho residents, will provide appropriate period music. Please reserve the date for this unique and historical event to honor and to celebrate the achievements of this remarkable, scientifically independent, and humble Jericho citizen.  

Vermont Snowflakes

Snowpile

Happy Birthday, Snowflake Bentley!

The Jericho, Vermont Historical Society has uncovered papers which show that 

Wilson A. "Snowflake" Bentley was actually born on the 7th of February 1865, 

not on the 9th as was previously supposed.  He died 23 December 1931.

I'm not sure my family can adjust.  But we're glad to celebrate early.  :-)

Whaa-aa-t??

Late to the Party

Playtime!

Y U M !

Candlemas!

Time to make the candles!

Time to see if Punxsutawney Phil says Winter will be six more weeks,

or only a month and a half. :-D

Hallo, February!!

Good-bye, January!

Today is my last *official* day working at the Library!  :-D

Icicles

Sky Blue

Sleepy Wednesday

Hang On, Cat, the sun has to come out again after the storm!

male Common Redpoll

Colour Helps

Brief Respite

Hey, What's Happening?

Resting Up

American Cardinals in the Winterberry

Hanging Out

{{{ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day }}}

I have decided to stick with love.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Crows in the Evergreen

Nom, Nom, Nom

Ice Falls on Brown's River

That's one Cold Mountain!

Mount Mansfield while -8F at the base

Wait…how cold is it?!

Rare Blue Lobster caught off Coast of Maine

Tufted Titmouse

Chickadee-dee-dee!

AMAZING!!

US National Weather Service La Crosse Wisconsin

11 hrs · Edited · 

 

Over the past week, the arctic air mass (filled with lots of ice crystals) has been providing some tremendous pictures of halos and sun dogs. Even though New Mexico has not been entrenched in this air mass, one of the superb halo displays that one will ever see occurred in Red River yesterday. In this sunrise picture by Joshua Thomas, you can see not only the sun pillars, sun dogs, and tangent arcs that we have been seeing, but also some very rare optical phenomenon (notated by red arrows) that only occur once a year or even in a life time. Here is the annotation of his picture. A special thanks to Les Crowley from Atmospheric Optics who helped us identify some of the very rare phenomenon in this picture.