Thursday 8:00 am: Pecking away on Ruth's laptop computer, I am also looking out our kitchen window towards the morning sun; which, by the way, is dazzlingly bright.
Thursday, 11:50 am: Here it is about a third of the way through the month of April and our snow is really melting.
Monday, 7:50 am: What started out as rain last night, turned into today's spring snow storm. Ruth was out with a ruler earlier trying to measure the snowfall amount.
8:20 am: Spring is here, at least technically on Friday it was; I don't recall it since it was a fleeting moment. Our snow needs to take a vote and agree to melt. 
Wednesday 10:15 am: Well cold's cold and I am staying inside as long as possible. The last few weeks have been bitterly cold, even for northern Maine.
Wednesday, 11:12 am: A winter day where the temperature has been going down since the sun came up. It seems backwards, but true.
Sunday, 8:55 am: Winter time in northern New England is much like winter time at the North Pole - it's white everywhere and cold. 
Charles Ames is a former educator and world traveler. He and his wife [Ruth] moved to Grand Isle Maine from Arizona in 1998. They reside in a log home on 60 acres of wooded land. They share their home with five dogs, two parrots, two parakeets and a goldfish.
Besides amateur weather observing, his other hobbies include; ham radio, astronomy, bird-watching, travel and fine dining, when and where he can find it. He is also volunteer Weather Spotter for the NWS in Caribou, and is an active member of the St. John Valley Amateur Radio Association. He supplies information using a wireless Davis Vantage-Pro.
