"Wintery Things" Fact # 1

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Wintery Things that Really Do Happen: 
A Primer for Yuman Children. 

Fact # 1:

Snow really does slide off of roofs in giant clumps that will break apart on your head and leave you covered in snow. This occurrence isn't just some exaggerational fiction depicted in holiday programs (that have nothing to do with your desert reality) to make you laugh, such as Charlie Brown and South Park. Go somewhere with a lot of snow. You will see that it is so.

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Hoar Frost Alongside the Colorado River

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The hoar frost in the trees and blowing in the breeze created a beautiful scene this morning on the Blue Heron Section of the Colorado River Trail in Grand Junction, Colorado this morning.

UPDATE: My friend Scott brought up the question about whether this was hoar frost or rime ice. I'm from Yuma, Arizona; I don't know! Anyway, I never knew what exactly hoar frost was until about a week ago when the Grand Junction Sentinel ran an article with a picture of a hawk perched on a tree covered in hoar frost. I'd read the term in books, but like many other wintery things, I'd never matched the term with the actual event in my brain. It helps to have an article with pictures.

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Snowy Pics from Grand Junction

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This was my neighbor's mailbox at about 6am this morning.

...from the other side...

The backyard crabapple tree. 

We'll be expecting the birds soon.


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Snow in the back yard.




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