When you combine a split hose, water, and Wyoming winter, you get… There is a fine mist spraying into the center. Every texture of ice is portrayed. The melted glass look… Sugared crystalline grass… Feathered ice. And speaking of feathers… Upon my approach, I instantly saw it. Do you? On the right, an Indian medicine…
Tag: weather
Bitter Cold
-23 as I head to bed… That’s a level of bitter cold in which I’m EXTREMELY grateful for a house! The coldest I’ve ever seen it was -55 in 1983. I remember because the guys had to go ride horses and bring the cows in from the badlands… and Vernon told me I could stay…
Smuck
Well, I’m just about back to normal… thanks for all the well wishes! Unfortunately, I had to go to Worland today… it was the last day I had to get my driver’s license renewed… and Wyoming has made that process such a pain. I needed less information to get my passport! So, I had all…
Counting
Snow! Gobs of it! Well, not New York style, but a good little storm this afternoon and evening. The kind where you feel you’ve transported to the Enterprise right before it goes into warp speed… which I would have taken a photo of but I preferred to *stop* my “shuttlecraft” before pulling out the camera. …
Chicken in the Cold
After the frigid cold we’ve been having, a day where it gets up into the teens and twenties feels pretty dog gone good! You’re ready to get out of the house and go for a walk… maybe a short one, but a walk all the same. Since the cold hit, Truce, the black cat, has…
Partial Storm
This was a small section of the storm that hit just the other day. With all the lightning that was popping around, you’d think I’d have managed to capture one strike, but I never did. So far no fires. Keep your fingers crossed! last call for questions… Post them here!
Relish the Light
Afternoon thunderstorms roll in and by… They may hit with wind and rain and lightning and maybe hail, or they skip around us and all we get is wind! The gust the other day was 55 mph, just a breeze in most of Wyoming, but a good one for around here. Then, just as they…
High Water
After work today, I buzzed up the mountain just to see how Ten Sleep Creek was doing in the canyon. It was wild in town, but the canyon is rougher and tougher… and here it is about three times it’s normal size… just below Leigh Creek Monument. And down lower near the Wigwam Rearing Station… …
Baby Chick Update
Good ol’ winter isn’t done with Wyoming yet! Interstate 80 was closed all day yesterday and today due to blizzard conditions. Two feet of snow fell on Casper Mountain. Here, thankfully, we received just a skiff. As usual, Vernon says it’s much dryer just a bit farther north… which is good, since wet conditions and…
Dodging Rain Clouds
Stay tuned… tomorrow… a horse sale! Yeehaw!
Just Waitin’
Spring storms… gotta love ’em… when this leaves, the grass will shoot up! Before this hit, I spent some time with my bees, removing more of the cross combing. While some beekeepers have suggested I continue into the depths of the hive to see if my queen is laying… I still haven’t made it that…