Category Archives: winter

Feb28

hush.

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It’s an old barn in the field and during that time it was fogging, the sky color was light pink and below was light blue..I couldn’t really get the right color when I took that picture but it’s close to what I took.. It was so amazing feeling to see it in actual, what a great memory – Old barn on a snowy field, Janice Perkkio (somewhere in Scandinavia)

About the picture:

in January, frost -28, wonderful color brilliance, in Finnish Lapland, Sodankylä

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i came across both of these photos a year apart, taken by different people in different places

I’m so in awe of their quiet winter beauty

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‘winter knows to hush, still, listen, so the soul can speak.’

-angie weiland-crosby

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photo credits: both photos were found on view from my window

Jan21

riotous.

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warmth and soul-seeking

winter below the surface

life continues on.

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“and don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. it’s quiet down there but the roots are riotous.”

-rumi

 

 

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photo credit: science hub  (nodules on the roots of the white clover)

Jan16

cold.

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 a negative number windchill temperature kind of week.

 

 

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“climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”

-mark twain

 

 

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photo credit: michigan weather satellite
Dec21

another solstice comes to pass.

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“the grand show is eternal.

it is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising.

eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and eternal glowing…

as the round earth rolls.”

-john muir

Dec19

glad tidings.

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“christmas waves a magic wand over this world,

and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”

-norman vincent peale

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 glad tidings to all.

Nov27

the beginning.

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 here comes the snow, tiptoeing in –

the beginning of a very long season ahead

 

 

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“the beginning is always today.”

-mary shelly, author of frankenstein

Mar1

undecided.

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march arrives and mother nature sits undecided

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“the seasons change their manner,

as the year had found some months asleep and leapt them over.”

-william shakespeare

 

 

 

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ann arbor, mi, usa – march 2023 – mlive photo credit

Feb23

thunder ice.

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*the thunder ice cometh. 

 

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“thou art all ice. thy kindness freezes.”

-william shakespeare

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*Yes, Thunder Ice is a real thing. 

Thundersnow is so last year.

This week in the U.S. there have been a few reports of “thunder ice” or “thunder-freezing rain.” It’s basically a thunderstorm during freezing rain or sleet.

“It’s not something we see very often, but it does happen from time to time and that’s what we experienced across the country,” said Chris Bowman, a National Weather Service meteorologist. “It’s fairly unusual,” he said. “You get pretty heavy rainfall rates and obviously with temperatures below freezing it happens.”

How does all of this happen? Convection — upward motion of air — helps produce thunderstorms. But it’s fairly rare to have convection within a winter storm. Thunder and lightning are much more common in warm-season thunderstorms. When there’s strong enough convection, along with plenty of moisture available, a winter storm can produce thundersnow. And when there’s a layer of warm air above a colder surface layer, freezing rain and sleet falls while the thunder is booming – thunder ice. 

Feb12

*yoopers.

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It took a month to make some of the incredible snow sculptures that were part of the annual Michigan Technological University Winter Carnival. Phi Kappa Tau extended its winning streak to five years with a huge rendition of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. (Photo: Daniel Staelgraeve | Michigan Technological University)
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what you do in the winter (and sometimes in may),
when you go to college in the upper peninsula of michigan
* yooper – a native or inhabitant of the upper peninsula of michigan
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 “i wrote, and sometimes, when i was stuck, i hit the road.
i ate pasties in the upper peninsula and hush puppies in cairo.
i did my best not to write about any place i had not been.”
– neil gaiman
Feb5

rien ne vaut son chez-soi. (there’s no place like home).

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here’s to staying warm and safe during these, the coldest days.

 

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“i don’t take naps, i accidentally hibernate.”

-wordporn

 

 

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image credit: ‘martha rabbit and tabitha cat,’ by shirley barber