Yesterday morning on Newberry Road.*******
Today is Garbage Day!
25 degrees, with just a tiny covering of puff.
From WKTV: "Light snow has developed across Central New York and will continue throughout the day. This does not look like a significant snowfall for our region but exercise caution over the next 24 hours on the roadways, especially in the higher terrain and on bridges and overpasses. The snow will be slow to accumulate and the map below is the forecast for today and tonight. Temperatures will remain cool, generally in the low 30's for highs for the next few days."
The snowbanks in Paris see higher than ever!(Yes: I did wash my car, but the clean look just doesn't last more than a few minutes!)
Later on, I saw another group down on Mason Road - same situation - just north of the Newberry Road corner.
In neither case was I able to get my camera on and snapping fast enough to take a picture of birds. (I do have several crooked shots of rearview mirrors, trees and sky, however!)
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It really does seem as if it's time for Lisele Haines, on Austin Road, to be hanging her old-fashioned sap buckets on the maples along the road in front of her house.
Taken about five years ago, on the day the trees were tapped.
Put the Sugaring Off at the Farmers Museum on your calendar! One year, we went to the sugaring off at the Herkimer Homestead, outside of Little Falls and had a fine, sweet time but, unfortunately, the dates given for that event on their website are for 2006.
In the meantime - as long as we are still beneath a covering of snow, you might enjoy seeing exactly what that white blanket really is made of.
For lots of magnificent photographs, as well as more technical descriptions than you thought possible, see "Guide to Snowflakes" from Caltech.
