Snow at Last
- January 28th, 2009
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I like winter in general – snow, cold weather, and a fire in the fireplace. One thing I do HATE is the trend over the last few years of receiving ICE instead of snow…aka the freezing rain of terror that has been the theme of winter for the last couple years. We generally don’t get a ton of snow here, I think the average is supposed to be about 12″ but usually at least one good snow every winter seems about right, sometimes a couple. But the last few years have been disappointing in the snow category with little to no snow at all…nowhere even close to the “average”.
I was glad when the ice that started falling Monday afternoon eventually turned into a good steady snowfall. It only amounted to maybe 3″ but that was good enough because I had pretty much forgot what snow was like. So I went out and enjoyed it and took a few photos.
Here is one back at the creek. It was cool because pieces of ice and clumps of snow were slowing floating downstream. It was almost like you could see the river freezing over. It was cool. One of those things that a photo can’t accurately capture.
Over the weekend I spent a considerable amount of time playing the old school Super Mario Bros 3 with Hannah’s brother in law, Al. When I was a kid I played nintendo all the time. But over time as I got older and video games became more advanced and complex I eventually more or less loss interest. I like the old controllers with only an A and B button. It seems like the controllers now have 47 buttons and are identified by colors and shapes that somehow you are supposed to memorize.
Ok class today we are going to study plant reproduction, particularly in plants that are incapable of reproducing the good old fashioned way.
There really isn’t much to it… I take a q-tip and collect pollen from the stamen (the little tentacle things in a flower) and then brush it all over the pistil (the stem in the middle of the flower that is covered in some kind of “pollen glue”). I am not sure why I know what the parts of a flower are called.
Over the years I have become more tolerant of some things and less tolerant of others. One activity which I have become almost completely intolerant to is smoking. I went to visit my homie Ian this weekend and Saturday night we went with a group of friends to this mexican restaurant in the trendy new power & light district. The place apparently transitions into a ‘club’ of sorts as the night progresses, so towards the end of our stay there it was more people drinking and dancing with some music and a cocky guy with a microphone occasionally yelling at people and trying to act cool.
Saturday Matt and I decided to hang out for a bit and enjoy the nice weather. I had been wanting to take some pictures around the falls for awhile so it seemed like a great day to try… except that once we arrived I realized i didn’t have the quick release for my tripod so i couldn’t do the long exposure images I had my mind set on. None the less it was still a nice day.

