Rockland Weather at a Glance
Here are a few photos of what the snow looked like yesterday. A couple shots walking down Cedar Street during our morning walk (Cedar is one of the streets Ella and I walk every morning to or from the shore).
These give some idea of how much snow is on the ground - that's going to melt, have no where to go and turn into a thick sheet of ice. Here's a couple photos from our yard. The first shows how much snow has been piled up in front and along the driveway side of the house as a result of (1) snow fall and (2) piling the snow up after shoveling, snow blowing and the city clearing the sidewalk. The second is our backyard, looking pretty much as it does just from the snow fall.
And now it's 50 degrees. I can almost hear the snow outside screaming..... like the Wicked Witch of the West... "Help me, I'm melting...." If only it could all melt away in the next 8 hours because tonight it is supposed to go down to 10 degrees. That means, of course, everything that melts will turn to ice. I want to make another run to the grocery store today to stock up. I'd like to be prepared to NOT leave the house for a few days at least.
Actually, David and I have plans for this coming Thursday evening. Here's a glimpse of what's happening in Midcoast Maine on Thursday evening. Can you guess which event we're attending? (Hint - think outside ... the box.)
• Midcoast Magnet "Mini-Juice" Conference, UMaine Orono opens its new Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center. The conference featuring speakers, seminars and tours runs noon-4:30 p.m. Opening reception with UMaine's president 5-7 p.m. Registration: RegOnline.com/IMRCMaine. Snow date: Jan. 31.
• "Land, Food and Justice in the Hebrew Bible," 6:30-8 p.m., Adas Yoshuron Synagogue, 50 Willow St., Rockland. Rabbi Natan Margalit gives the talk in anticipation of the Feb. 21-23 Camden Conference, which has a theme of "The Global Politics of Food and Water." Free.
• "Caving in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico," 7 p.m., Vose Library, 392 Common Road, Union. Cave explorer and award-winning photographer Peter Jones gives the illustrated talk. Free. FMI: 785-4733.
• "The Heirloom Seed Project," 7 p.m., Camden Library, 55 Main St. Neil Lash of Medomak Valley High School, which has the oldest high school seed-saving program in the U.S., gives tips on how to begin a seed-saving collection.
With due respect and consideration to Rabbi Margolit, we don't plan to attend the "Land, Food and Justice in the Hebrew Bible" event, although the Camden Conference's theme this year of "Global Politics of Food and Water" sounds interesting. We are planning to attend the "Heirloom Seed Project" event. We want to start more of our garden from seeds this year, and that means getting an earlier start. And we want to learn about saving seeds. It's a good project when there are sub-zero temperatures and the ground is ice encased.
Peace, peace, far and near.
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