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Christmastime in Syracuse

Now the snow really has a reason, it decorates the season The photo which leads off this post was taken on December 20, 2007 in Clinton Square showing the ice skating rink Syracuse (NY) Parks and Recreation runs each year.  … Continue reading

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Lake Effect Snow

It has been a week of shoveling and blowing snow as an early Lake Effect Snow event hit central New York this week. 100 hours later, I have four feet (121cm) of the white stuff in my yard.  It is … Continue reading

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View 116: Melting Away

Two days before I took this photo, the path was 90% snow covered with just enough clear on one side to walk.  Two days of sunny and warm weather later, it’s only 10% covered in this stretch.  There’s a part … Continue reading

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Winter’s Back is Broken

I first encountered the phrase, “Winter’s back is broken”, while reading Jean Auel’s The Mammoth Hunters,  the third book in her Earth’s Children series (excellent books, by the way).  I had never heard it but Google shows me others are … Continue reading

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White Calm

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan — Elizabeth Coatsworth There where thousands of ducks and geese on Webster Pond but only one swan. He was a calm in a sea of flying feathers and noisy neighbors. This … Continue reading

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