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.

Say, how's it goin'?

Redpolls!

Snow Squall and oh so cold!

My first ever homemade Mince Pie!

♥¸¸.•*¨*•♡ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CATREONA! ♡•*¨*•.¸¸♥

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for Twelfth Night

~ Claudia Cormier

Traveling Mercies!

Sun on the Hill

Mirror of Erised

This was created for Eldest*Grand, who at age 8 has read the first 5 Harry Potter books, by her Auntie.

☆ H A P P Y ☆ N E W ☆ Y E A R ☆ !!!!! ☆

Goodbye 2014!

Big Helper

White Knuckle Sleigh Ride

And here's another white knuckle moment.  I pulled out into traffic, heard a loud POP!! and suddenly my car could not drive forward or backward.  Luckily, I was able to roll back out of the way, at least! So my cute little Mini Cooper, with only 18K miles on it, got towed to the dealer.  Transmission? Waiting to hear.

Yule Logs

Cardinals in the Snow

On the Feast of Stephen...

Merry Christmas!

by German artist, Sulamith Wulfing

☆ Follow The Star ☆

Luminarias

Hasidic Snowpeople Sweater, for all your Chanukah Parties!

Oy, where can I buy one?

☆ WINTER SOLSTICE ☆ 6:03pm EST ☆

Northern Lights are possible this weekend!  ☆Click Here☆

Ah, time for Preparations...

Winterberries

Raven or Crow?

How to tell a Raven from a Crow

Wreathed in Joy!

Happy Chanukah!

Chanukah threads to cure your Christmas Sweater Envy

Library Mayhem

Bows!

The Feast of St. Lucia!

What with three Granddaughters and their visiting Friend, we will have as many as 4 St. Lucias today!

Deck the Halls!

Feed the Birds

Baskets to Fill

A Bit of Snow

Snow Sky

Second Sunday in Advent