Category: Photos

A Few Irregulars

March 7th, 2010
I hear the birds sing in the morning - the Cardinal with his 'bomb drop' song, the slurry scrabbly song of starlings at first light, and the 'To-hee to-hee chickachickadeedeedee' of Chickadees - the only bird that sings in deep winter, and gets all the… more »

Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best - 2010" List

February 20th, 2010
The Chicago Public Library recently published its "Best of the Best 2010" list - and The Story of Snow is on it! The library describes the list as including books that are "some of the very best published for kids in 2009." You can see the whole list h… more »

More Snowflake Photographs with Classifications

February 17th, 2010
I found Jon’s post regarding the Magono-Lee Snow Crystal classification system to be quite interesting.   Here are some more shots from Monday night – I’ll see if I can classify them:   more »

Three From This Evening

February 15th, 2010
A gentle snow has been falling this evening - here are three new photos, more will be coming:   more »

Another Snow Crystal

February 14th, 2010
Here's another snow crystal from  last week's shoot -   more »

Two Snow Crystals and a Review

February 10th, 2010
Yesterday' snow fizzled by midnight, and the show smiled upon us here in Michigan this morning. On the news I hear about the blizzard in the mid Atlantic, but up here in the snow belt all is calm. Here's another snow crystal from yesterday's storm - im… more »

It Snowed Today

February 9th, 2010
It snowed today. It's snowing now. At first it was hard and driving, wet and clumping. Now it is dry and dusty, tiny and incomplete. But between those things it breifly fell, small and well formed, tiny dots just a millimeter or so across. Here's one p… more »

Snow at last!

January 27th, 2010
A light snow has been falling for the last few days. It's not been much. I look out my window at the lawn mowed last fall, and green tips of grass blades poke out of the snow. On the internet I see the lake effect snow bands playing out to the north, bu… more »