Wednesday, 9:30 am: It’s still cold, but today has a pleasant twist: We have fog, that has left a blanket of small ice crystals on the trees and ground, which has added a surreal quality to the landscape. I’d like to think other northern locations have it this scenic.

Sometimes the local meteorological conditions are not adequately expressed in technical terms. The weather service needs another category that defines levels of scenic splendor. They do this in the autumn, when they describe leaf colors for, “leaf peepers” who come to have a look. Obviously we have a lot of white and shades of white, if there is such a thing. There is, after all, beauty in white too. Maybe we have too much beauty in that case.

I am sitting in front of my computer typing in my snow boots. Now that’s rural Maine. As I have written before, local people refer to our area as The Other Maine. Being from away I enjoy the otherness that exists here. And like many things that make our area unique, the weather is perhaps more akin to the weather in eastern Canada. Now I just need to buy a plaid flannel shirt and fur cap with ear flaps. Yeah right! Don’t’ wait for me to start yodeling, or singing Monty Python’s Lumberjack Song. That’s it for today, more Seinfeldian observations in my next installment.

Current values form our
Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 18 degrees (F.)

Barometer: 30.03 and steady

Humidity: 71%

Wind: Calm

Visibility: > 1 mile - Dissipating fog

Precipitation: None

Since midnight:

Low temp: .5 degree (F.) at 5:01 am

High wind: 3 mph at 9:22 am

Pine Grosbeak and friend