Aestivation Arrives

 

 

 

Overcast in Casper all day, we never did see the Sun.

Nevertheless, it's still Summer!

 

 

 

Aestivation Awaits

 

 

 

When next we see the Sun it shall be Summer!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifteen Years

 A Happy Crystal Anniversary to my wonderful Rainbow!

ANOTHER Few Snow Days

Sent home early from school yesterday, working through a virtual school day today, and already scheduled to be staying home again tomorrow, we here in Casper, Wyoming, are enduring yet another few snow days. This go 'round, the snow storm has broken a record that has stood since a wintry Christmas Eve over forty years ago. In fact, it sets the record, as kept since the 1930s.

I was going to post a couple of pictures, but the white space below gives a rather fair sense of what Wyoming looks like outside my window.

Cloudy Conjunction

We have been watching Venus and Jupiter approach one another night after night for weeks. 

Then, at last, the evening they meet, the skies are cloudy, alas!

 

Yet, it made for a ghostly glow around the pair, as if they were gazing through a spectral veil.

 

 

The high, frosty clouds also gave the Moon a really cool halo.

So, it proved to be a wondrous night of stargazing, nevertheless.

Another Couple of "Snow Days"

A blizzard rolled into Wyoming--as well as across half the country--with snow and ice and wind that wouldn't quit. A deep freeze of blinding white drifts...

...Giving us another couple of snow days. 

But only "half-way" snow days. 

Because, although we got to stay home, we still had to attend school using virtual learning tools. The storm was well forecast, and folks had ample chance to prepare. When the snow started blowing, we were ready.

It was still weird. Seeing pupils' faces arrayed across the computer screen, and it felt like we had slipped into a wormhole and got shot out three years ago--right into lockdown!

Nevertheless, teachers and students once again proved themselves adaptable to any situation, and we were able to make it a valuable pair of days worth of work and learning.

Does this then mean the end of the true "Snow Day"?

Another Snow Day

Second snow day of the year--announced just as I was tying my tie, just as my wife was going to warm up the car, and just as the Twins were gathering their Winter gear.

We all went back to bed--even if not back to sleep.

Always so wonderful to spend a cold Winter morning watching The Price Is Right.