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Melissa | February 15, 2010
It has snowed and snowed and snowed today! We already had a couple of inches on the ground, but now we have at least 7 more! Here are some photos I took. My Gabby Rose is so small compared to the high drifts of snow. Male Northern Cardinal in tree near feeders. Northern Cardinal at [...]
Melissa | January 17, 2010
For our poetry this past week we focused on the poem, When All the World is Full of Snow by N.M. Bodecker. This beautiful poem is excellent to read for vivid metaphors such as…”and swarming frost flakes fill the trees with billions of albino bees.” Whenever we read poetry it seems to inspire art, so [...]
Melissa | January 2, 2010
This morning I was able to get my first really clear snowflake macro images of the season on my camera! It just hadn’t been cold enough yet for the crystals to stay well defined. Well with temperatures in the teens this morning, I had success! All of the photos were either taken on black felt [...]
Melissa | December 19, 2009
Much of the midwest and eastern United States got significant amounts of snow last night! So, it is definitely time to do one of my favorite things…snowflake observation! I am not at home right now, so I cannot share my latest photos, however below are just a couple of the macro photos I took of snowflakes [...]
Melissa | January 26, 2009
Some of the best ice crystals can be observed early in the morning on the simpliest of places. These photos we’re taken on the edge of the window of my husband’s car yesterday morning. He had left it out of the garage the night before. My husband saw these, and he commented, “and to [...]
Melissa | January 5, 2009
“The average dairy farmer gets up at dawn because he has to go to work in the cow yard. I get up at dawn, too. But it is because I want to find some leaf, hung with dew; or a spider web which the dew has made into the most delicate ropes of pearls…I take [...]
