December 22, 2022

Winter Fun in the Snow

Today it is too cold to go out for a walk in the snow. It is -10 degrees with a 25 mph wind making a feels like temperature of about -40 degrees. It will not get above 0 degrees for 2 more days according to the weather forecast so it is a good time to stay inside and write this long overdue update.

Over the last month since I last wrote, Becky and I have gone for walks at Fort Ridgely and seen evidence of many others doing fun things on the trails. The evidence is most apparent right after a snow. Tracks of people and wildlife are very easily identified then. Snow sticking to trees and other plant remains is beautiful and very distinctive after wetter snows. Here are a few pictures I took a few weeks ago.

Snowflake Beauty

A friend from Winthrop takes beautiful pictures of snowflakes with a macro lens on her camera. Her name is Teri Ahlstrand and I am including, with her permission, several pictures she has put on Facebook recently and several years ago. Amazing how unique each one is. Teri takes the pictures of them on her car quickly, before they blow away. She says "Start seeing snowflakes!"

Bathroom Construction Update

I haven't been by the construction in the last week but here are a few pictures I took before that. Workers are under the plastic enclosure that they have constructed. For some reason they wear blaze orange.

Late Afternoon Walk

We have had to get out to walk by 3 -4pm as the days got shorter up to the solstice a couple days ago. The colors are muted and orange as the sun gets lower in the sky. Here are some pictures I took around the park on one of those walks.