The Owls are Nesting!

Owls begin nesting in the Northeast in mid-February. :-)

SNOWY OWLS

SUSAN! Keep Those Toes Warm!

AND HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Happy Year of the Goat!

We bought this necklace through Etsy for the February birthday

of a sweet young friend who is Chinese and lives in California. :-)

Ash Wednesday

Did you know that the ashes used to smudge believers on Ash Wednesday 

are made by burning the dried out palms from the previous year's Palm Sunday?

(Image thanks to Clayton Faulkner)

Mardi Gras!

How do you mark Mardi Gras?

We celebrated Shrove Tuesday tonight with Blueberry Pancakes and fresh Clementines from sunny California!  

It's Presidents' Day! :-)

More Snowflake Bentley

 I learned more about how perfect snowflakes form. It has to do with moisture off the ocean that comes from a nor'easter hitting into the upslope of the western slopes of the Green Mountains. It's best if the air is 5F as the snowflakes form, and the surface temps are between 26F and 29F. Cool!
Also, I learned that Wilson "Willy" "Snowflake" Bentley was appreciated by the weather folks in Boston. They sent him the weather map every day, so he could consider it alongside his data from the same day. He sent them his information and so much of what he was researching and discovering became part of early forecasting. Very cool.

The view from Bentley's home:

Valentine's Day Hug

♥ Drawing of Grammie and VT*Grand hugging, by VT*Grand. :-) ♥

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